First Collector Mego?

[Action Martin]

Feeling nostalgic this past December I purchased a lot of POTA figures on eBay. That brought me to the Museum, the cards, then Captain Marvel, Superman, Tarzan, a couple of AJs, Batman, Robin, Aquaman, a kitbashed Jet Jungle, and it goes on.

[cjefferys]

I had always hung on to some of my childhood Megos, and when I got older, I always wished I could find some more. Finally around 1987 (I was about 20 years old then), I found a vintage toy shop in Buffalo, NY and the old guy who owned the place had a bunch of boxed Megos (along with a bunch of other wonderful stuff). I bought a boxed Robin that day for $20 (the condition of the boxed figures varied, but that Robin box was near mint, almost perfect. I still have him). I was just a poor university student, but over the next year, I revisited the store now and then, and I bought several more. The most expensive one I bought was a boxed Lizard for $40, and I felt guilty paying that much for him, because I didn't exactly have much extra money to spend.

About a year after that, I found my first issue of Toy Shop, found out how much Megos were selling for at that point, and the first chance I got, I went back to that store to buy everything he had left (I hadn't visited in over a year by that point). All he had left by then was a crappy boxed Thing that he was selling for $150. He must have found out about Toy Shop prices too. :(

[Evel KMego]

12" Batman at my local comic shop.

[HardyGirl]

When I was married and living in WI, I went to a toy show. I found a naked Superman and a Tarzan w/ an AJ suit on , and an LJN 2 piece SWAT suit in a baggie. At the time, I didn't know these were Supes and Tarzan, I just had faded memories of my old AJ figures, and thought these might be them. It was only about 5 or 6 years ago, that I found out which guys these were. Supes is dressed in AJ's safari outfit, while Tarzan happily wears his loin cloth (minus the pajamas). The rest is history.

[Dave Mc]

Cornelius. He was my fav as a kid, the one I begged for when they first came out, and my first as an adult collector. To this day I have to make myself not buy him whenever I see one for sale. I have 6 of them, but I keep having to stop myself from buying more.

[miguet]

Gosh, it was just earlier this month that I got my first Mego figures (Kirk, Bones and Spock (2))! On the same day they arrived, I won a MOC Kirk and Spock at auction. Kirk later arrived with a knee pin off but I achieved my initial goal of owning one MOC Mego figure. I didn't think it would happen so soon.

[Mikey]

I bought a couple of MOC Treks in the 80's (the Canadian finds) ... but they really didn't get my adult Mego collecting started.....

I think the Mego that really started my bug was Ironman.....
I never had him as a kid so I was out to get one ..... Outer Limits in NJ sold me one at a very affordable price (at the time).

I was really impressed (this was in the late 80's-early 90's)

After Ironman, I just went nuts

[Goblin19]

Not an exciting story. My brother told me about this site when I got my computer and I was hooked. I started searching ebay trying to get a Green Goblin, with the intention of getting more. I couldn't win one, but did get a Joker about a month later. The rest is history.

[Bionic Joe]

Around 86/88 i went to a STAR TREKcon in south Phillie and they had MOC STAR TREK figures $20each KIRK/SPOCK/KLINGON were the three he had i got KIRK and SPOCK together for $30 on the last day of the con I still have both but the bubble on SPOCK became loose so i got a replacement a short time ago

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

A superman for me too...

[mitchedwards]

RC batman was my first adult purchase

[highquality]

A perfect condition Dark Green Vest Green Arrow with all unbroken and original accessories from Roy's Toys in Jacksonville, FL circa 1995. I can remember exactly what I paid for him too....$140.

From 1991-1995, I was a pretty hardcore Star Wars Collector. I eventually sold that entire collection to Roy's Toys for many more Megos.

Green Arrow did it for me though. He got the whole ball rolling.

The only Megos I ever had as a kid where Spiderman, Hulk and Superman. I never even knew Green Arrow existed until that day.

Been hooked ever since.

[Action Martin]

I always thought that Green Arrow was the perfect Mego. The look, the accessories, the costume, just perfect.

[The Bat]

MOC Kirk & Spock(I bought Them emediately!)!! I was at a Star Trek Convention...and was amazed to see these old Toys from My Childhood, still in the Package!

[Lynn TXP 0369]

I got back into collecting back in 1990 when I discoverd issue # 2 of Tomarts Digest in a comic store, I was hooked.

I bought my first loose a minty Batman Mego from Mark Huckabone from an ad in Tomarts digest.

I then traded a loose incomplete Kenner '79 Alien for a Minty in the box Mego Robin valued at $60 from The Toy Shop magazine.

Lynn