Swimming With A Vintage Mego Aquaman

Seems like Aquaman is a constant butt of jokes these days, but why? As a master scuba diver, I would love to be able to breath underwater without breathing gear or command aquatic life. I just don't understand why he is put down so much as this guy is the main topic of the awesome blog, The Aquaman Shrine. He was always a part of the original line up of the Super Friends and was in Wave I of Mego's World's Greatest Super Heroes line along with Superman, Batman, and Robin.

Why's Everybody Always Picking On Me?

Vintage Mego Superman and Aquaman action figures

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The Music of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection

My wife picked up a copy of "The Music of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection" a couple of weeks off of Amazon for me and I have been enjoying it ever since. The CD includes 31 theme songs from DC's long line of comic book characters TV series and movies. This just isn't a bunch of re-done instrumental versions. These are the actual themes we all love from the TV series and movies. This is one of the best mixes of Super Hero themes I have heard in a long time. I love it so much I think it should have been a 2 disc CD. Wish The Challenge of the Super Friends, The Flash TV series, The New Adventures of Batman, and to many others to mention were part of this collection too. I put together a a semi sample of the CD below using the best copies a could find. Take a listen and hear for yourself this fine collection of music.

1. Superman March


2. Theme From Superman (Album Version)


3. The New Adventures of Superman


4. Lois and Clark/ The New Adventures of Superman


5. The Adventures of Superboy


6. Superboy


7. Smallville Season 8 (End Title)


8. Batman: The Electrical Brain


9. The Batman Theme (Album Version)


10. The Adventures of Batman


11. Batman TV Series Theme


12. Batman: The Brave and the Bold


13. Batman Beyond (Main Title)


14. Molossus From Batman Begins


15. Justice League of America


16. Super Friends


17. The All New Super Friends Hour


18. Justice League Unlimited Theme


19. Legends of the Superheroes


20. Teen Titans


21. Aquaman


22. Swamp Thing

23. Shazam


24. The Flash


25. Green Lantern


26. Green Lantern First Flight


27. The Atom


28. Hawkman


29.Plastic Man


30. Wonder Woman The Animated Movie End Title


31. Wonder Woman

Can't Wait Until July for the Second Wave of Retro-Action DC Super Heroes

If your one of those who can't get enough of Mattel's Mego style Retro-Action DC Super Heroes, Help is here!

Here is another look at the First and Second waves of Mattel's new Super Hero action figure line with photos from ToyArk.com.

I just think these guys are the best thing since sliced bread. It's like Mego is still in business and producing these figures. Almost like they made production changes and finally expanded the line.

The Green Arrow has already been released. The first wave is coming in April and will consist of:

Superman
Lex Luthor
Green Lantern
Sinestro

The second wave will include:

RC Batman
Two-Face
Aquaman
Black Manta

Who will the third wave consist of? The Flash, Robin, Captain Cold? More, more, more.

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Toy Fair 2010 Reveals the Next Wave of DC Retro-Action Super Heroes

The remaining four Super Heroes from wave one-Superman, Green Lantern, Lex Luthor, and Sinestro haven't even been released yet (Coming to a Toys R US near you this Spring) and I have been dying to see what was in store for the second wave of DC Retro-Action Super Heroes action figures to be released.

Green Arrow was released exclusively at MattyCollector.com (you can check out mine here) with the other four coming around Easter.

The 2010 Toy Fair has revealed the next four figures for the second wave. Drum roll please...

The next four figures in the line will be:

Removable Cowl Batman
Two-Face
Aquaman
Black Manta

Check them out in all their deliciousness below with pics from ToyNewsI.com

These Mego style action figure look fantastic. I can hardly wait to get my hands on them.

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Watching the Super Friends Season One Volume One

I just finished watching the first half of the recent DVD release of the Super Friends that my loving wife picked up for me. This is the actual first season of the Hanna-Barbera TV series.

Other releases have claimed to be the first season, like The Challenge of the Super Friends. Technically, I guess it was the first and only season under that title, but I considered every incarnation a part of the regular run of the series.

The opening theme to this season of the Super Friends is one of my favorites. The Challenge of the Super Friends intro would be the other.


It had been awhile since I had seen these episodes, but I still remember the gist of the majority of the stories. I always liked Wendy and Marvin too. I wish they would have had an explanation of what had happened to them when Zan and Jayna took their place.



There were 16 episodes in the original run of the first season. The newest DVD set has only the first 8. I guess that means there will be a Volume 2.

The episodes include:

The Power Pirate
The Baffles Puzzle
Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.
The Weather Maker
Dr, Pelogian's War
The Shamon "U"
Too Hot to Handle
The Androids

I never thought of the show as educational, but there many educational facts like the water mass of the earth sprinkled throughout the episodes.



If you loved this season as a kid, you'll at least like it for the nostalgia now. Funny thing is I was watching this with my 5 year old nephew and he asked me, Why is Batman wearing blue and gray? Damn I feel old.

Don't you wish they had actual villains from the comics in this season?

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Smallville: Absolute Justice Airs This Friday February 5

I loved when Smallville has introduced other DC Comic characters on the show. Everyone from Green Arrow, Black Canary, Aquaman, Impulse, Cyborg, Zatanna and members of the Legion of Super-Heroes.

This weeks episode "Absolute Justice" is not only a two hour episode, but we get to see many members of the Justice Society. Not only do we get to see Hawkman, Stargirl and Dr. Fate, we get to see them in the costumes we love from the comics.

To take a line from Superman II, "Man, this is going to be good."









Canadian Promo



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Mint Fresh Case of Mego Action Figures Found

Sorry gang, but not actually a mint fresh case of Mego's. Here's a look at my repro World's Greatest Super Heroes display case. The Mego figures were shipped to retailers in these cases to serve as display cases while on the store shelf. Once the cases were empty they were just tossed out with the rest of the trash. What were they thinking?



This was also before blister cards became all the rage as you can see my case is filled window boxed Super Heroes.



How delicious would it be to find a box of these guys in a warehouse or a basement somewhere? Brand new and never opened- Removable Mask Robin, Superman, Aquaman, Removable Cowl Batman. Oh to dream the impossible dream.



The images that Mego chose for each of the characters came directly from the comics and still gets my heart pounding whenever I see them. The images are still burnt in my memory from trips to Toys R Us and these guys up on the shelf. Whenever I see those images aside from Mego boxes I immediately relate them to the World's Greatest Toys.

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Mego Action Figures Video From 1973

Fellow Bat-Fan and voice actor, Wally Wingert put this video together from a photo story he did as a kid. The story called "The Biggest Robber Yet" and features the first and second wave of Mego World's Greatest Super Heroes including a "RC" Batman, Robin, Superman, Aquaman, Tarzan, Captain America, Spiderman, and Shazam. Wally did this photo story in 1973 so the action figure line was hot off the presses, but it doesn't look like Wally had a removable mask Robin, which would probably place the time line in the later half of 1973. We also get to hear Wally's voice talent too, as he plays all the characters in the story. Enjoy!