How do you want to see the Re-Mego Shazam portrayed?

[Orion]

^^^Yeah just like that!!

Ditto.

[megocrazy]

It must be really cold in your toy room Chuck - either that or the turkey is done.

I used to sand those torso's down before using them on a custom body but just couldn't be bothered. The crotch tends to get a bit of camel toe as well. It's really more like camel foot to be truthful.

[Cosmicman]

How's this?

http://megomuseum.com/mmgallery/file...tainMarvel.JPG

I love that head. Where'd you get it? That is perfect for Shazam. I really need to ditch my modified Fonzie I am using. It don't look bad but that head is perfect.

[Brown Bear]

CC Beck's closed-eyes version is how most people from our era remember Shazam!

I was just watching the 70'as cartoon with my sons the other night.

[drmego]

custom head

I think that head was done by Troy Younger - he always favors a very
cartoony style.

I love that head. Where'd you get it? That is perfect for Shazam. I really need to ditch my modified Fonzie I am using. It don't look bad but that head is perfect.

[Mego Milk]

[exoduschj]

Here is the custom I did to try to capture a look more close to the original. What do you guys think? I'm thinking of ordering the "small pirate boots" from Doc Mego to replace the ones pictured here.

[exoduschj]

The body, head, suit and boots came from Doc Mego. The emblem, belt, wrist design, and cape were hand made. It was a struggle trying to get the eyes to have that right that "squint" look, with the right shape to the eyebrows. The head came flesh colored and didn't look right when i tried to paint it, so I left it that way.

Captain Marvel was always one of my favorite megos because I grew up watching the show on Saturday mornings and reading the comics. I really hope a Retro Action figure comes out along with a Black Adam.

[spotter]

Props to JM make him in the
Justice League International style and break out your oreos

[Meule]

Captain Marvel is such a lame character...I can't believe there's 3 Pages on this.

Make that 4, almost 5

[huedell]

I think that head was done by Troy Younger - he always favors a very
cartoony style.

"Cartoony" or not...it looks like the SHAZAM pictured on towels, watches,
etc....i.e. "merch" from the Mego era...so that's why I prefer it to look that
way.

Maybe other DCU characters didn't look as cartoony, but that's not
what is going through my head with all this talk about
which way MATTEL should go with their line...all I'm thinking about is
what I would have ideally preferred from the mid-70s when I originally
saw Megos as opposed to how the Megos actually looked.

This wouldn't be an issue with a "Mego replica"-based line,
but (as I mentioned before) since they are "re-inventing the wheel" here
I'd say the floodgates are open for an idealistic perspective on how
the retro-based figures should look.

[Mikey]

I'd like to see Shazam's suit made like the original figures.

It might be incorrect, but it's what I grew up with so I count it as legit.

For the head, i'd hate to see one made too comic-ish ... He wouldn't fit in with the other heroes.

[megocrazy]

I think that head was done by Troy Younger - he always favors a very
cartoony style.

Yep. It's Troy's. I grabbed almost all the ones he put up in the marketplace a few months back. I think I have every mainline character he does. Still have a few to finish.

[samurainoir]

The one thought that I have about it is, what intention did CC Beck have in drawing Captain Marvel's eyes like that? I'm pretty sure it wasn't meant to depict him with his eyes actually closed, but as a visual shortcut for squinting. So translating that to more naturalistic 3-D, I don't think you would actually have the head sculpt with his eyes closed, but with a kind of smiling, squinting look.

[Brown Bear]

If his eyes look closed in the 70's comics, why not have his figure with his eyes closed?