riddler fist fighter

[daz71]

just reading john bonavita's mego book & it says riddler fist fighter was issued in a window box but i'm from the u.k. and we didn't get riddler over here so i sent to heroes world in the late 70s and got a riddler fist fighter on a card so is this a mistake in the book or did they do them on cards & he just didn't put them in the book.

[MIB41]

You got him CARDED? I've never heard that before. Of course at that stage, Mego's warehouse might have been getting cleaned out so that could be one of those allusive variants. That's pretty interesting. Would love to have seen a picture of that.

[daz71]

yeh wish i had kept it carded but first thing you do when your a kid is rip it open.if we knew then what we know now.still got the figure though.

[imp]

…so is this a mistake in the book….

I don't believe the mistake here is John's. Whatever it is you're recalling, it almost certainly isn't anything that Mego produced. You're suggesting you purchased a U.S.-issued Fist Fighting Riddler — there never was U.K.-issued FF Riddler — from Heroes World based in New Jersey USA, right? And that your figure was packaged on a standard blister card instead of the Fist Fighters' Window-Box-with-a-flap packaging?

Here's the problem with your recollection: Mego issued Fist-Fighting Riddler for only two years: 1975 and 1976. Mego did not even introduce the 2nd Issue (AKA 'Standard') blister card until the following year, 1977.

Regardless of the year you received the figure/packaging combo you suggest, Mego never could have produced such a thing in the first place… manufacturing of Fist-Fighting Riddlers and standard blister cards never occurred simultaneously.

I should mention that Lili Ledy issued a Fist-Fighting Riddler in Mexico, but even if it had been packaged on a card, I'm not sure how such an item would enter Heroes World's inventory.

Perhaps Heroes World slapped your figure on an empty blister card (thought I find that unlikely), or perhaps you have a couple different memories interconnected. Start digging through those photo albums and find us a picture!

- b

[daz71]

it was definately on a card because i never knew window boxes even existed until a couple of years ago.it was after 1978 because it was delivered to the house where i moved to in 78 & he is definately a fist fighter as i still have him.yes from heroes world in new jersey i got shazam,falcon mr.mxz who was on a type 1 body at the same time though none of those we're fistfighters.

[daz71]

the head is 1973 the body 1975 .i got a heroes world catalogue with the order if they dated their catalogues then i shoulb be able to pinpoint the year i got it as i still have the catalogue

[daz71]

just found the heroes world catalogue with the comic inside it advertising heroes world & the comic is dated 1981 so that is the year i got it.