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Mego 12" Superman Prototype is Found!
Lorne Kotzer has been around toys his whole life; in the 1950s his father Morris was already making trips to Japan to import items from their then fledgling manufacturing industry.
It was there that he struck up a friendship and buying relationship with Mego founder D. David Abrams, this would essentially turn his father’s company “Parkdale Novelty” into the Canadian arm of Mego during the 1960s and the majority of the 1970s.* During the 1970’s Lorne spent his high school years working at Parkdale Novelty unloading Mego shipments and had the pleasure of inspecting every Star Trek Tricorder and repairing the legs on 12’ Wonder Woman dolls.
He fondly remembered those days and took time to do an interview with us which we’ll disclose in the coming weeks, but for now we focus on his surprising reveal, an original Mego 12” Superman prototype from 1977, a product created by Mego for Parkdale Novelty.* This hand painted item was brought back by his father from New York in 1977 and remains one of the very few prototype pieces from the World’s Greatest Superhero collection. We spoke to him about the 12” Superheroes line:
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