World’s Greatest Toys!

Man, I really do love USA Today’s Pop Candy blog, maintained by Whitney Matheson. Not only is Whitney downright adorable (yet woefully married), she captains one of the hippest ships in the blogosphere.

As a big fan of Pop Candy, today was a good day for me. Whitney granted Mego 8″ Super-Heroes: World’s Greatest Toys! a nice blurb (text below the image):

Here’s what Whitney wrote in her blog:

Mego 8″ Super-Heroes: World’s Greatest Toys by Benjamin Holcomb (TwoMorrows, $49.95). Either you’re familiar with Mego or you aren’t, and folks who used to collect these colorful, superheroic action figures in the ’70s will appreciate this large, full-color, unbelievably complete guide. (One of my co-workers lit up when he saw this on my desk, then proceeded to flip through it and tell me about each of the figures he used to own.) Holcomb goes through everything from the history of Mego to the construction of each toy, making the book valuable to both serious collectors and pop-culture enthusiasts.

Now how cool is that?! It seems every office has at least one Mego-head.

And that’s a good thing.

Benjamin