Greatest American Discovery

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Another terrific discovery this year provided by our friends at Heroes West Coast, this is a carded Bill Maxwell sales sample recently purchased from a former department store toy buyer. The sample gives great indication as to what the finished product would have looked like.

A close up of the figure, note it's differences to the earlier Maxwell sample found that's below:

Check it out at the Mego Museum Greatest American Hero Gallery and stay tuned next week for more Greatest American Prototypes.

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[Earth 2 Chris]

Are those the same sculpts? Hard to tell if it's just the paint making the difference. There's some Robert Culp in there, although it looks like he's had some botox to fix the wrinkles and such.

What a find though!!!

Chris

[justzeg18]

are the other two there as well? to either side maybe?

[Mikey]

I always hated the Mad Magazine-ish card art.

[wilbs518]

I was just gonna post this. I saw it in my Tomart. Did anyone from the museum write the article in Tomart?

[ScottA]

Holy cow!! What a find.

[pmwasson]

Wow! I can't believe there is still stuff out there to be discovered!

[SeattleEd]

NICE!!! I wouldn't mind Robert Culp head for an I Spy custom!

[clemso]

An incredible discovery, wow!

[sauce]

My word!!! AWESOME!!

and is it my imagination or is there another card to the left of the photo . . ?! . . . .

[wilbs518]

There are a couple of more carded figures in that pic.

[jimsmegos]

Even as a kid I would have loved to have this "old guy" action figure. Maybe this could be the next FX exclusive from the world of EMCE?

[Mikey]

I do like the carded sculpt

[palitoy]

I have images of all three, truth be told I was in on the buy but stepped back for my friend.

The Ralph comparisons will take me until Monday but I think we have three different Ralph variations for the Museum.

[clemso]

They must have been so close to going into full production on this line.