I recently bought the Showcase Presents: Robin the Boy Wonder volume, and much to my pleasant surprise, it helped me solve a few more Mego art mysteries!
I had previously discovered what I thought may be the original art source for Robin's vignette headshot on the 1979 DC 8" packages:
79 Robin source art found - Mego Talk
Turns out, I was half right. While that was indeed the source art, it originally appeared in Batman #248, 1973, 11 issues earlier than the comic I mentioned before. Here is a black and white scan from the Robin volume alongside the previous pics I posted, with card art and the reused head shot from Batman #259:


This artwork is indeed by Irv Novick, but inked by Frank McLaughlin, not Dick Giordano.
I was REALLY stoked to find the art source for the 9" Robin art found on the back of the 2nd released 12" Super Heroes. It comes from World's Finest #200 and is by Dick Dillin and Joe Giella. For some reason, I always suspected Dillin did this art. It just looked like his body posturing. They had to redraw parts of this one, but with that odd pose, I don't think there is any doubt that this is the source:


We are still looking for the source of the DC 76 card for Robin. It still looks like Irv Novick to me. If it's not in this book, it may have come from a lead Batman story he was in. I'll keep looking.
Chris
I had previously discovered what I thought may be the original art source for Robin's vignette headshot on the 1979 DC 8" packages:
79 Robin source art found - Mego Talk
Turns out, I was half right. While that was indeed the source art, it originally appeared in Batman #248, 1973, 11 issues earlier than the comic I mentioned before. Here is a black and white scan from the Robin volume alongside the previous pics I posted, with card art and the reused head shot from Batman #259:


This artwork is indeed by Irv Novick, but inked by Frank McLaughlin, not Dick Giordano.
I was REALLY stoked to find the art source for the 9" Robin art found on the back of the 2nd released 12" Super Heroes. It comes from World's Finest #200 and is by Dick Dillin and Joe Giella. For some reason, I always suspected Dillin did this art. It just looked like his body posturing. They had to redraw parts of this one, but with that odd pose, I don't think there is any doubt that this is the source:


We are still looking for the source of the DC 76 card for Robin. It still looks like Irv Novick to me. If it's not in this book, it may have come from a lead Batman story he was in. I'll keep looking.
Chris
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