Kid Flash! Wonder Girl! Power Girl! Gold Superman!
Earlier Wednesday, we showed off four of eight DC Comics variant covers homaging the 40th anniversary of Kenner’s Super Powers line, featuring characters that were never produced. They’re due in August and the characters include first appearance versions of John Stewart Green Lantern, Nightwing and Poison Ivy, as well as a Shirtless Batman based on Denny O’Neil, Neal Adams and Dick Giordano’s 1972 classic Batman #244. (Click here to check them out!)
Now, here are the next four: Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Power Girl and Gold Superman.
Dig these:
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Several thoughts:
— The toy designs are by action-figure maker Jason “ToyOtter” Geyer and the comics art is by Alex Saviuk, who provided imagery for Kenner’s original line, which began in 1984. The basic gist of the covers is “What If the Series Never Ended in 1986?”
— Does this mean that the eight Super Powers variants are a sign that McFarlane Toys, the line’s current maker, will produce these as actual action figures? Well, they’ve already done Gold Superman, so who knows? When we know, so will you. We do know that Todd McFarlane listens to the fans — and that he’d be passing up a fortune by not making these. Click here for more on that. (UPDATED 5/17/24: McFarlane has responded to the interest! Click here.)
— I LOVE the back covers — and the playsets/vehicles that also were never made!
— Kid Flash, Power Girl and Gold Superman were evidently at least discussed back in the ’80s but they were never produced.
— Interesting that they chose the Atlantean Power Girl instead of the Kryptonian PG. Props to our pal Paul Kupperberg!
— Boy, wouldn’t it be great if Mego got in on this action?
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MORE
— DC to Release Eight SUPER POWERS Action Figure VARIANT COVERS This Summer. Click here.
— DC’s SUPER POWERS VARIANT COVERS: A Goldmine Just Waiting There for McFARLANE TOYS. Click here.
May 15, 2024
These variant covers invoke plenty of nostalgic value.
May 15, 2024
I was never aware of the Man of Gold Superman. It gave me a bit of chuckle–on the back of the package on “weaknesses” we might include that he’s fireproof and he’ll never rust, but he’s incredibly soft and malleable, so easily bent and hammer-able into thin foil like sheets. His density will still let him deflect bullets, but a tussle with Thor may not go well. A Man of Steel is much more durable even if a Man of Gold is more aesthetically shiny.
And if we assume Supes weighs 225 pounds (quick web check) (and an assumption he’s solid gold) and given today’s price of gold (another quick web check) at $2, 394 / oz., he’d be worth almost $9 million.
May 16, 2024
WBD certainly hopes that he is worth way more than $9 million. They will spend way more than that just on the marketing of the new Superman movie.
May 16, 2024
That Batman figure looks super cool, but it needed a matching shirtless Ra’s al Ghul.