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Wonderful catalog spread today just added to the Mego Museum Department Store Gallery, it's from the 1979 Spiegel catalog which like everybody else is all about TV's biggest star at the time, the Hulk.


The Mobile Batlab is a unique choice for this page, you didn't see it much in late seventies catalog.

Mego's in a Museum? Check out these terrific pics of the Mego content at the Indianapolis Children's Museum

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[toys2cool]

I love that Hulk in the cage,I actually had like 4 but never one in a cage

[Mikey]

$16.98 for that caged Hulk ?

Wasn't that kind of expensive back then ?

[palitoy]

$16.98 for that caged Hulk ?

Wasn't that kind of expensive back then ?

Late 70's inflation I guess. I think it's interesting how much Mego lead the charge with superhero toys, only to be pushed to the bottom of a catalog page by imitation stuff like Remco energized figures and Empire Helicopters..

[Wee67]

$16.98 for that caged Hulk ?

Wasn't that kind of expensive back then ?

I was thinking thwe same thing. One internet inflation calculator puts the current day price (well, 2007 price actually) at over $47!

[UnderdogDJLSW]

I remember even back then seeing the caged hulk in the store and thinking it wasn't worth the money. For those that don't know, his waist down to his feet were hard plastic and weighted down so he would stand and then his body was a hollow rubber so that when you pumped air into him through a squeeze bulb he expanded and "broke" the cage. There was no articulation, so basically you had a floppy rubber torso on a heavy non-moving statue of feet with what looked like a catheter out his back.