My Missus and me recently picked up three modern thick card My First DC Superpowers books for our Grandson Moonbase Junior.
As soon as I saw them I knew they were related to toys I know, DC Super Powers by Kenner. In fact I was covinced they used the same artist as the toy card artist, the name of which I don't know.
DC Super Powers is one of my favourite action figure ranges. I've only discovered it later on in life and have none of the figures myself but I adore the whole like and appreciate the effort Kenner put into it back in the 80's. Its always a huge treat to see these figures and vehicles at toy fairs. Here are the figures courtesy of Pinterest.
Figures in the books include Hawkman, seen here with Hawkgirl.
and the wonderfully designed Batmobile, the toy version shown beneath.
There's Aqualad [i'm sure I've seen the whales before. Hanna Barbera's Moby Dick?]
Cyborg and the wonderful Kenner figure beneath.
Wonderwoman, Lex Luthor and the super cool Kenner Lex figure below.
The Martian Manhunter.
The whole line.
and all the books.
How cool is that readers?
I've got a few super-powers collection figures, a batmobile too, these books look great for little ones the art was used on greetings cards that I thought I'd lost to the ether years ago and then turned up in my parents loft a while back
ReplyDeleteWow, we have GOT to see those greetings cards MJ!
DeleteI actually sent them for birthdays and Valentine's
ReplyDeleteSo you had a stack of them?
DeleteHalf a dozen at a push? I'll search on tinternet for some examples
Deletehttps://pin.it/t1HSFjb there's loads here that I had
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