Mighty Crusaders Remco

[Bravestarr]

Hello does anyone collect these any info would be helpfull were their hereos and villians how rare are they thank you

[Werewolf]

Here's a checklist of the figures. There's eight in the set. None are rare or valuable.

https://www.figurerealm.com/actionfigure?action=seriesitemlist&id=772

[mego]

I had the Fox and my brother had Comet when we were kids. Pretty cool figures.

[Timothy2251]

I think my local comic shop has one or two of these guys on their shelves. Been there forever it seems.

[PNGwynne]

I got a nice carded set of these for about &12 each. They're clunky but I like Archie Heroes and think they're fun.

I've been thinking about making a fly-winged cape for The Sting, he's probably my favorite villain in the set.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I had everyone in the line except the Buzzard. They were kind of odd and cartoonier than most of the action figures at the time, but I kind of liked their "generic" appeal. It made them kind of like blank canvases, even though I did have some Mighty Crusaders comics, especially The Fly.

In a lot of ways you can see these as aesthetic forebearers of TMNT and Dick Tracy figures. They have that clunky Playmates vibe.

Chris

[PNGwynne]

^They do--and sort of like small MOTU/wrestlers as well. I would have liked to have seen more characters--Fly, Jaguar, Black Hood. And I was surprised at the lack of vehicles: A Fox-cycle, Brain-saucer, Shield-copter, or Webmobile would have been fun!

[palitoy]

Adore the characters but I just can't bear them, it might have been different if I was a little younger I guess.

The character selection was weird too, No fly and no Jaguar seemed unusually bothersome to me.

[Werewolf]

If you compare the sculpts on these to Remco's other lines, like Warlord, you can tell how little effort went into them. They were capable of much better sculpts.

[palitoy]

I'm really surprised Remco didn't do their usual thing and make them like Secret Wars or Super Powers. They're so odd.

[Werewolf]

I think they were trying to copy Secret Wars with the smooth bodies and painted on details. They even had a shield gimmick. Plus they tried to copy the action features of Super Powers with their punching gimmick. They just copied them both really poorly. I don't mean to be a downer on these and I love Remco's Mini Monsters, Crystar and MOTU knock off figures. I think they just could have and should have done better.

[PNGwynne]

I agree with Werewolf about the knock-off aspects. But actually, I like them fine for what they are.

I'm wondering if I can blend a Web and an Eraser to make a Fly--it's easy to pop off the arms and legs and I'm wondering if the heads do, too.

[johnnystorm]

I have a couple of them, Web & Shield...The Fly was a big miss, especially since he was arguably the "star hero" of the Archie line. I always had the impression this line was put out to promote some abortive attempt at a cartoon series that never materialized. Like if Archie could attract a series by offering the charactrrs as a toy line rather than comic book characters.

[PNGwynne]

There was a Red Circle(Archie) series of "Mighty Crusaders" comics in the early/mid '80s. Doubtless Remco was using these a comparable license to riff on Super Powers and Secret Wars.

The four villains of the Remco line are pulled directly from their contemporaneous comics.

[PNGwynne]

I upgraded my The Sting figure with proper wings, instead of making a cape.

BTW, the arms and legs are easy to pop off, but the heads are anchored into the torso.