Anybody else not know who some WGSH's were ?

[megocrazy]

I knew all of them because of comics and TV but only had two Mego's. Spidey and Captain America. I had 4 or 5 AJ's and a bunch of suits and accessories for them. Not a lot of kids in my neighborhood had Mego figures so I never experienced the others except seeing them in stores. I lived in a big sports area and we spent summers playing baseball and winters playing football. Sports cards were the big hobby thing we did. Everyone I hung out with was into card collecting too. It's funny because I was fine with having a couple of figures to play with but as a card collector I was a serious completist. After I got out of cards, toys and completing the entire line became more important.

[Mego Magyar]

I wasn't a comic book kid although I had a couple but thanks to tv I knew of Superman, Batman and Spiderman. Then with the Super Friends cartoon, which I loved, I was introduced to more heroes. I remember seeing Superman and Batman in a Sears catalog and my parents bought them for me - I think for my birthday. Later my mother saw Robin and Aquaman in a catalog and got those for me for Christmas. With the Shazam tv show and old Tarzan movies on tv I also knew who they were. The only one I didn't really know who he was before I got the figure was Captain America but since he was the last one pictured on the boxes I got him to "complete" the set. I got Cap and Shazam as we were moving ( planning on a move from Vermont to North Dakota but actually ended up back in Vermont ) as before the long train trip my mother bought me 2 comics, one for Shazam and one wiht Cap on the cover. That was my introduction to the Avengers and form there I became a full on comic reader and by the time I found out that there were other Mego WGSH figures I pretty much knew who they were. I got into Star Trek almost at the same time I saw figures in the stores and Sears catalogs.

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[Gorn Captain]

Most of them weren't released here at all, to my frustration. I knew who they were, I just couldn't get them. That's why getting one now is twice as sweet.

[Gorn Captain]

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[tllgn]

As a kid ,it was planet of the apes that got me into mego.with the first 5,then my brothers & friends saw that the superheros
were made just like them,the first hero i bought in the box was shazam,i didnt even know anything about him,i still have him,till the
tv show was on i didnt know,i didnt know falcon,green arrow,mr mxy-what ever,and at first very little about spiderman,i saw a capt
America serial on tv back then,so i knew who he was,knew very little about Aquaman,iron man,the green goblin,the lizard.but at that
time i was just getting into comics ,and by the time the rest came out ,i knew who they were,batgirl i knew from tv along with the other
batman robin and foes,Supergirl was self explained.When i learned all about superheros ,i was like saying Wheres Flash,daredevil,etc

[palitoy]

Knew all the WGSH, didn't know all the Star Trek Aliens.

[madmarva]

I think I knew most of them by the time they came out, but comics and megoes are so intertwined in my memories, it's kind of a chicken and egg debate. Superman, Batman and Robin were the first three i got, and I knew them from comics and their TV shows and of course the Super Friends. Next came Aquaman, whom I learned about on the Super Friends, and Spider-Man, but I'm not exactly sure in what order. I may have seen the Spidey cartoon before I had a Spidey comic. I do know that Spidey 129 is my first regular-sized Spider-Man comic and shortly after that I got the mego Spidey and the first Spidey Tabloid with the red cover that reprinted Spidey 14 with Green Goblin and the Hulk. All of that happened within the same year if I remember correctly because I was going from daycare into kindergarten and just before first grade.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I'm pretty sure I met Spider-Man through the Electric Company, but it's all so foggy, I can't be sure. I think I was born knowing about Superman and Batman.

Chris

[samurainoir]

WGSH were some of my very first memories, and probably my earliest exposure to many of the villain characters. Didn't know who Myx was at the time... he just looked odd. I knew Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Robin and Aquaman from Supepfriends. Spiderman from the Bakshi cartoon and Electric Company.

I remember not quite understanding Torch, the bodysuit didn't really seem to evoke flames at all... ditto Thing and his rocky hide.

[wayne foundation 07]

Most of the comics I read didn't have a Mego made from them,Ghost Rider being my favorite, followed by Jonah Hex. Then as I started watching Super Friends cartoons,you had to pretend who was who because you never had the right villian. Kids today don't have that kind of imagination I think.

[cjefferys]

I think I was born knowing about Superman and Batman.

Chris

I feel like that too. It seems like I learned about so many of these superheroes at such an early age, that I have no real recollection of my very first exposure to any of them, so it feels like I've just always known about them. My exposure would have been through all the cartoons, and I remember getting comics at a very early age. Probably not really reading them, but just gazing at all the artwork and absorbing the characters. Superheroes just fascinated me right from the beginning, so I was hooked very early.

[Tom L]

I never read comics so had no idea who Catwoman was.

[drmego]

I remember that my first exposure to Spider-Man was the cartoon in reruns on NY channel 5 - I remember that day because I wanted to watch Dick Tracy
and my brother wanted to watch something else. Looking at the TV listing, there was a third choice called Spiderman - I knew Superman and Batman,
but not Spiderman, so we compromised and watched that.

That was probably before discovering MEGOS which for me was Superman, Batman, Robin because of the live action TV shows rerun every day on WPIX 11
and Superfriends on ABC on Saturday morning. I know that by 1973 I was reading Spider-Man comics in Marvel Tales and Amazing Spider-Man. I know this
because my brother got me a stack of comics when I had the chicken pox and one of them was Spider-Man #122 - the death of the Green Goblin and Gwen
Stacy.