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You have your Marvel people, you have your DC people. There are plenty of similarities, but more than a few differences in style, attitude and outlook on life. The same goes for the Mego World's Greatest Superheroes. The different treatment afforded some of the Marvel characters is quite striking, really. The differences can best be summed up in two words: Oven Mitts. Batman and Robin and Aquaman were perpetually stuck with Mego's first solution to the glove issue. The initial releases of the WGSH was followed in 1974 by the third wave of figures which brought with them substantial improvements in Mego design.
The Type 2 body was introduced and was more poseable, more realistic, and anatomically refined with a rounded chest and actual biceps and thighs. It was a huge improvement over the T1 with it's hands that could hold nothing, it's elastic connections that prevented the figure from SITTING (hard to design Playsets and vehicles for such a thing) and it's flat, scrawny musculature.
The new design may have been prompted in part by the characters Mego wanted to make. Thor's hammer and Conan's sword would have been useless in T1 hands. Conan would certainly have ended up in a flesh leotard were it not for the pecs on the T2 chest. Lastly, the large T1 hands with their big bulky wrist joint would not have made possible Mego's New, Better-Late-Than-Never Innovation:
Highlights MOLDED PLASTIC GLOVES. Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic, and the Invisible Girl all came with hard plastic gloves that were shaped like hands and fists. Not perfect, the FF look a bit like a toxic cleanup crew with their big black gloves, but it obviously beats the Oven Mitt.
The sad thing is, Mego never went back and revised their first designs. It is natural that their first forays into Superhero costuming would have had some flaws, but to NOT go back and give Batman and Robin improved gloves is infuriatingly cheap of them. To say nothing of actually correcting the errors on Captain America. What a shame.
The icons below link to 8 inch characters. For other figure formats, check these galleries:
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Mego produced Superhero products in other formats, including large lines of 12", 3" and bendable figures. Click on the link below to view some of Mego's other Merchandising Mania!
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figure formats: Comic Action, Pocket and Bendy Heroes.
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Elastic Heroes . | Diecast Heroes . | |
Additional Museum Links for more information on Mego "Worlds Greatest Superheroes"
a Sliding scale to determine just what "Rare" means!
Cataloging these hard to find parts of WGSH history
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