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  • raycastile
    Museum Super Collector
    • Sep 11, 2004
    • 170

    Old pics of my carded Mego Iron Man

    I have been trying to find these photos for years. I finally found them this weekend, while looking for something else.

    These pics were taken in the early 1990s. Look at my tiny little toy collection. A couple shelves of loose figures and a few boxes in my bedroom closet. That was the entirety of my collection. But I had a few gems, and one of them was this carded Mego Iron Man. I bought him for $90 at the Toyman toy show in St. Louis. He had sat on the dealer's table all day long with no one interested. Finally, I bought him just before the show closed.





    I later traded it to Mark Huckabone for a boxed Remco Phantom of the Opera. At the time, that seemed like a great deal. The Phantom was a "hot" toy that collectors were buzzing about. No one seemed to care about a carded Iron Man. In any case, I was getting out of superheroes and focusing on monsters, so the trade made sense.

    I see Star Raiders and Secret Wars in the closet. Secret Wars and Dapol Doctor Who were the first toys I seriously collected. I remember being really excited when I bought my Secret Wars Hobgoblin. Oooh, I was a big time collector!

    I had some good carded Star Raiders, including some glow ones, back when they were cheap. I eventually sold them for $45 each, and I remember having a hard time finding a buyer. People thought that was too much to pay for those stupid things. I could hardly give them away.

    It was in that climate that I found myself the only one at a toy show stupid enough to pay $90 for a silly carded Iron Man. And Mark was the only person crazy enough to trade me for it.

    Looking at these two photos, it's odd that I look so different in one versus the other, even though they must have been taken a few minutes apart. I think I look better frowning.
  • Gorn Captain
    Invincible Ironing Man
    • Feb 28, 2008
    • 10549

    #2
    And a Kenner Alien.
    You actually had a monster in your closet!
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    "When things are at their darkest, it's a brave man that can kick back and party."

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    • EmergencyIan
      Museum Paramedic
      • Aug 31, 2005
      • 5470

      #3
      Wow on more than one level!

      Great pics, by the way.

      - Ian
      Rampart, this is Squad 51. How do you read?

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      • palitoy
        live. laugh. lisa needs braces
        • Jun 16, 2001
        • 59794

        #4
        This is so full of win.

        I had similar set up in the late 80s, two shelves loaded with Mego figures (i had decarded) there was a certain magic to those "toyshop days".
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        • alterego
          New Member
          • Nov 4, 2012
          • 34

          #5
          Glorious!!

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          • mishu2nite
            Persistent Member
            • Nov 26, 2001
            • 2260

            #6
            Cool in every shape, way, and form!

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            • vulcan2074
              Live Long and Prosper
              • Mar 23, 2008
              • 7817

              #7
              These pictures Rock!!!
              Sammy

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              • drquest
                ~~/\~~\o/~~/\~~Shark!
                • Apr 17, 2012
                • 3862

                #8
                I used to sell at Toy Man in the early to mid 90's, don't recall that gem being there. I did pick up a boxed Iron Man from that show once.
                Danny(Drquest)
                Captain Action HQ
                Retro shirts and stuff
                Stuff For Sale

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                • Mego-Amigo
                  Persistent Member
                  • Jun 22, 2011
                  • 1043

                  #9
                  I found my carded Iron Man in Nashville, TN at a toy show back in the mid 90s. The guy was only asking $135.00 !!! Close to case fresh with an unpunched card. Traded it to a close friend here years ago. I understand Mr. Huckabone owns it now also.

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                  • cjefferys
                    Duke of Gloat
                    • Apr 23, 2006
                    • 10180

                    #10
                    Those are great pics! I remember having no more than a couple shelves of toys back in the late 1980's and thinking I had quite the toy collection. Those were cool, heady times to be a toy collector when the hobby was quite young for the most part.

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                    • nvmbrsdoom5
                      Persistent Member
                      • Mar 1, 2005
                      • 1627

                      #11
                      That's a great story! I remember going to toy shows back around 1991/1992 and seeing loads of carded Mego. I passed on so much of it because I thought they were asking far too much. I remember seeing a beautiful carded Thor that the dealer was asking about $125 for, and scoffing at the idea of ever paying that much for that. *sigh* Meanwhile I'd easily spend the same amount of money on a pile of newer toys at TRU and Kay-Bee, convinced I'd hit the jackpot. I certainly learned a lesson!

                      On a related note, back around that same timeframe, I saw a boxed Remco Phantom of the Opera at a dealer's table. It was hard to read the price tag because the writing on the small white sticker was sloppy, I couldn't tell if it said $15 or $150. My hunch told me it was $150, but I grabbed it and held it up for the dealer and said, "Fifteen for this?" He glanced quickly and said, yep sure, so I quickly handed him the money and left. Looking at the tag again when I got home, I was fairly certain he'd misread his own writing but rationalized that it was his own mistake, so be it. Nowadays I'd have far more scruples than to go along with that, but in my late teens all I could think of was that I'd scored! Later I sadly had to sell the toy while going through a divorce, so I got a bit of my comeuppance....

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                      • Mego-Amigo
                        Persistent Member
                        • Jun 22, 2011
                        • 1043

                        #12
                        The guy that I bought my carded Iron Man from also had a carded Riddler for $200.00. I could not afford both the Iron Man and Riddler so I chose Iron Man for $135.00. I thought I could find Riddler another time.

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                        • raycastile
                          Museum Super Collector
                          • Sep 11, 2004
                          • 170

                          #13
                          I have a photo, taken at the same time as the Iron Man pics, of me holding a boxed Fist Fighting Riddler. I remember that was one of my prize Megos. I also had two standard boxed Riddlers, so I must have been on a Riddler kick for some reason.

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                          • XXXPHOENIX
                            Veteran Member
                            • Feb 26, 2008
                            • 438

                            #14
                            These a HORROR stories!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHH

                            Originally posted by nvmbrsdoom5
                            That's a great story! I remember going to toy shows back around 1991/1992 and seeing loads of carded Mego. I passed on so much of it because I thought they were asking far too much. I remember seeing a beautiful carded Thor that the dealer was asking about $125 for, and scoffing at the idea of ever paying that much for that. *sigh* Meanwhile I'd easily spend the same amount of money on a pile of newer toys at TRU and Kay-Bee, convinced I'd hit the jackpot. I certainly learned a lesson!

                            On a related note, back around that same timeframe, I saw a boxed Remco Phantom of the Opera at a dealer's table. It was hard to read the price tag because the writing on the small white sticker was sloppy, I couldn't tell if it said $15 or $150. My hunch told me it was $150, but I grabbed it and held it up for the dealer and said, "Fifteen for this?" He glanced quickly and said, yep sure, so I quickly handed him the money and left. Looking at the tag again when I got home, I was fairly certain he'd misread his own writing but rationalized that it was his own mistake, so be it. Nowadays I'd have far more scruples than to go along with that, but in my late teens all I could think of was that I'd scored! Later I sadly had to sell the toy while going through a divorce, so I got a bit of my comeuppance....

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                            • Vinny0026
                              Year Five!!
                              • Jan 26, 2012
                              • 3734

                              #15
                              wow! first great pics! 2nd wow 2 people in this thread picked up MOC Ironman/men for less than 135!! that is awesome.

                              Back than I was going to shows as well.
                              I met 1 dealer - who said he had a carded goblin at his store

                              He wanted 600 (this was in 1988/1989)
                              I called his shop the following monday

                              He charged my CC the 600.00 (keep in mind i had no idea how rare it really was)
                              a week later he refunded me and said it was no longer for sale

                              I was so ****ed off - and I still am!!

                              Glad that you guys were lucky enough to get those Ironmen
                              Wish you guys still had them !
                              "Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys?"

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