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My Grim Ghost figure arrived a couple of days ago. So I decided to display it on my living room bookshelf for a couple of days this weekend. (The horse was once my daughter's toy, long ago.)
Of all the modern Mego figures I've bought, I think I would declare this one "best dressed." His period clothes are amazing. The cape is even more 'deluxe' than the rest of his fantastic costume. That said, the figure does suffer from two issues that I've experienced recurrently with modern Mego figures: (1) he doesn't stand easily on his own (perhaps because of the weight of that high quality cape), so I had to pose him with a stand, (2) he doesn't hold his pistol well/easily, in part because his 'trigger finger' is too small to extend into its trigger guard.
Those quibbles aside, I really think this is a really excellent figure that also feels 'in hand' a lot more expensive than the $20 price on Deep Discount.
As a bonus, I thought the reprint of the vintage Grim Ghost #1 comic book was great. I really liked that they included the vintage house advertisements, as well as an editorial page detailing Atlas Comics' entire nascent line of comics. (That said, I did note that every such house ad featured Devilina prominently, so this was probably marketing-driven. But I don't mind that. If I had any quibble, it's that the reproduction quality of the interior pages was a little lackluster. Nothing had been 'remastered,' and the colors were very muted - much like the original copies I have from 50 years ago. I just happened to toss this issue on top of a reprint of an issue of 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths that was included with a recent DC McFarlane figure I'd bought (Crisis Joker, I think). And that comic book had been entirely remastered and recolored. But that work had probably been done by DC years ago for another purpose. So it's not really a fair comparison. But the juxtaposition was striking nonetheless.)
Lastly, because I know there are a few baseball fans here, I will also add that the black square the Grim Ghost is posed on in the photo below is normally a clear display cube holding a baseball from a San Diego Padres game 25 years ago.
Of all the modern Mego figures I've bought, I think I would declare this one "best dressed." His period clothes are amazing. The cape is even more 'deluxe' than the rest of his fantastic costume. That said, the figure does suffer from two issues that I've experienced recurrently with modern Mego figures: (1) he doesn't stand easily on his own (perhaps because of the weight of that high quality cape), so I had to pose him with a stand, (2) he doesn't hold his pistol well/easily, in part because his 'trigger finger' is too small to extend into its trigger guard.
Those quibbles aside, I really think this is a really excellent figure that also feels 'in hand' a lot more expensive than the $20 price on Deep Discount.
As a bonus, I thought the reprint of the vintage Grim Ghost #1 comic book was great. I really liked that they included the vintage house advertisements, as well as an editorial page detailing Atlas Comics' entire nascent line of comics. (That said, I did note that every such house ad featured Devilina prominently, so this was probably marketing-driven. But I don't mind that. If I had any quibble, it's that the reproduction quality of the interior pages was a little lackluster. Nothing had been 'remastered,' and the colors were very muted - much like the original copies I have from 50 years ago. I just happened to toss this issue on top of a reprint of an issue of 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths that was included with a recent DC McFarlane figure I'd bought (Crisis Joker, I think). And that comic book had been entirely remastered and recolored. But that work had probably been done by DC years ago for another purpose. So it's not really a fair comparison. But the juxtaposition was striking nonetheless.)
Lastly, because I know there are a few baseball fans here, I will also add that the black square the Grim Ghost is posed on in the photo below is normally a clear display cube holding a baseball from a San Diego Padres game 25 years ago.
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