17th March 2008

Daily Mego Adoration: Removable Cowl Batman!

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Daily Mego Adoration

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Here’s your Daily Mego Adoration for Monday, March 17, 2008: Removable Cowl Batman!

(Bonus: New Photo!)

Daily Mego Adoration

I discuss Batman quite a bit in World’s Greatest Toys! Here’s a snippet from the book (page 27, for those reading along), discussing the differing outfit and bodysuit variations:

The Dark Knight comes with a gray bodysuit featuring sewn-in black trunks. Every other accessory is removable: a yellow plastic utility belt, blue cape, blue vinyl gloves and blue plastic boots. The character’s famous Bat emblem is a sticker applied to the chest. Early versions of the figure included a removable blue rubber cowl.

The color of polyester bodysuit material changed over the years, and outfits exhibit one of several shades of gray. Early bodysuits display a reddish tint. On the earliest Batman outfits, the gray portion is a corduroy-textured, polyester material. Known as the “ribbed” costume variation, early version outfits for the other 1st Wave characters use a similar material. Ribbed Batman outfits are rare and only appear on Type 1 outfits with nylon trunks. The ribbed outfits may or may not feature the stirrups (see page 15).

Both Superman and Aquaman have outfits with and without Sewn-Sleeves, but the pattern for every Batman bodysuit features sleeves cut from the same cloth as the torso.

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Benjamin

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  1. 1 On March 26th, 2008, Flynne said:

    The RC Batman is really an example of Mego at its finest. I think it almost perfectly encapsulates everything the company was about - simplicity of style, extreme playability, and a perfect use of scale and parts. It took me years to piece my “Skinny Boots” RC Batman together, but it is one of the “Crown Jewels” of my collection.

  2. 2 On March 26th, 2008, benjamin said:

    Hey Derek, wonderful sentiment, and I agree wholeheartedly. And you’re not kidding about the scarcity of the “Skinny Boots” RC Batman. Believe it or not, I couldn’t even track down a high-grade specimen for the book! In fact, I actually had to cheat this in the book (only cheated once though, if you ignore the shot of Speedy ‘holding’ his bow on page 227):

    If you look at the Skinny boot on page 29, it’s actually a photo-recolored Superman boot!

    Them boots is tough!

    -b

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