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  • palitoy
    live. laugh. lisa needs braces
    • Jun 16, 2001
    • 59778

    #16
    Mitch is right, the first four WGSH were out months before the Superfriends. By the fall, the line included Tarzan and the Marvel Superheroes but the first four had been out there for a while.

    This ad is from June, two months before Superfriends aired and I have some from March.

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    • megoscott
      Founding Partner
      • Nov 17, 2006
      • 8710

      #17
      As a kid I was way more aware of Aquaman than Flash and GL. That Filmation show and then SF established him before the other guys.
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      • rchatlin
        Talkative Member
        • Jun 24, 2001
        • 5768

        #18
        I'm surprised to see this ad, or possibly it was the store, label the figures with the Mego name.

        A lot of the other early ads don's identify the companies behind the toys,
        or at least just the bigger names back then.

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        • mego73
          Printed paperboard Tiger
          • Aug 1, 2003
          • 6690

          #19
          I wonder if Marty and company knew about the upcoming Superfriends.

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          • Sideshow Spock
            valar morghulis
            • Mar 8, 2005
            • 2859

            #20
            Originally posted by palitoy
            Mitch is right, the first four WGSH were out months before the Superfriends. By the fall, the line included Tarzan and the Marvel Superheroes but the first four had been out there for a while.

            This ad is from June, two months before Superfriends aired and I have some from March.

            http://www.megomuseum.com/print/images/cwwgsh73b.jpg
            I don't think that ad can be from '73. According to Wikipedia, Child World wasn't even founded until 1974, and Superfriends premiered in Sept 1973.

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            • palitoy
              live. laugh. lisa needs braces
              • Jun 16, 2001
              • 59778

              #21
              I got that childworld ad from a 1973 paper and it's not the only one I have to back this up. Here is a Boscov's spread from March of 73, which shows the Superheroes.

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              • palitoy
                live. laugh. lisa needs braces
                • Jun 16, 2001
                • 59778

                #22
                Oh and Wikipedia is wrong, the majority of Childworld advertising begins in 1974 but they started opening Summer of 1973, who the hell would miss Christmas?

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                • Sideshow Spock
                  valar morghulis
                  • Mar 8, 2005
                  • 2859

                  #23
                  Hey, don't kill the messenger.. I couldn't find any other confirmation of the 1974 founding date (or ANY date) even amongst all the bankruptcy documentation, so there was nothing to back it up anyways.

                  As far as WGSH premiering before Superfriends, all you have to do is open up Ben's book to confirm that. He states that the solid boxes were in test stores Christmas, 1972, and then widely with the new packaging variations during 1973, well before Superfriends premiere in September.

                  In that Boscov's ad, what that first word listed? I assume the second is Batman, and the last three are Rob, Supes, and Aqua.

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                  • palitoy
                    live. laugh. lisa needs braces
                    • Jun 16, 2001
                    • 59778

                    #24
                    Hey, I didn't shoot anybody. I just did some digging to verify that Wikipedia was incorrect.

                    While I gathered the Korvette's tests happened in '72, it seems like the nation wide roll out happened March of 1973, at least with the first four. The first time I see mention of Spider-Man is September of that year. So it would appear the solid boxes were around for less than a year.

                    Oh and the big mystery word is "choose" which is probably a gigantic let down.


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

                      #25
                      Wikipedia wrong? Blasphemy! I've never heard such a thing!

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