This is especially true of 12 inch Comic Batman and Spiderman, but the 9 1/2 inch version of Robin below is a different story.Įasily the rarest large-size Mego, 9 1/2 inch Robin and 12 inch Batman represent the only time Mego ever addressed the scale issue with the Dynamic Duo.The President of Parkdale Novelty was not particularly happy with a small Robin advertised as 12, he believed it to be “false advertising”īurbank Toys sounds American but it’s a European Company. Found commonly due to a mid eighties warehouse find and their subsequent distribution through Diamon Comics Distributors, these are often NRFB as store stock. The first versions of Batman and Robin were the Canadian exclusive Verisons. Mego 12 inch Batman in the Canadian Parkdale Novelty Box. Batman’s logo is fused plastic, while Robin’s is a sticker. Note the cuffed gloves and boots to enable totally mobility in the hands and feet. Batman comes with the buff stocky body, while Robin has a skinny one. With magnetic hands and feet, these hefty Megos have built-in play appeal. Recently Non Magnetic versions of these figures have emerged in completely different boxes, these are later foreign releases as the “Fly Away Action” logo is printed on the box. Robin looks all grown up here and is actually a reused sculpt from the Gabriel Lone Ranger line, I guess once you’ve seen one masked man in Hong Kong…… The head sculpt on the Magnetic Batman is especially cool and severe and the grimmest visage of the man Mego made. The Dynamic Duo came in two different twelve inch forms, the best known stateside being the Magnetic Batman and Robin. Original Parkdale Novelty Catalog page for the 12 inch heroes launch in Canada, their country of origin.

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