Posted By Dan Greenfield on Dec 13, 2024 | 1 comment

TOYHEM! EVEN MORE CAPTAIN ACTION OUTFITS that never were!

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Welcome to TOYHEM! For the sixth straight holiday season, we’re bringing you a series of features and columns celebrating the toys of our youth, which often made for the best memories this time of year. Click here to check out the complete index of stories — and have a Merry Christmas, a Happy Chanukah and Happy Holidays! — Dan

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First, we brought you 13 GREAT CAPTAIN ACTION OUTFITS THAT NEVER WERE! Then, we brought you MORE GREAT CAPTAIN ACTION OUTFITS THAT NEVER WERE!

Now this:

For the longest time, I thought Kraven the Hunter was a silly character. Not the idea of a hunter, mind you: It was the outlandish Siegfried and Roy costume, complete with capri pants.

Even with the tough-guy facial hair, there was nothing particularly intimidating about him other than his very cool name.

John Romita, 1967

Then I started reading Kraven the Hunter stories and I was like, “Oh, OK. I get it now. He’s pretty badass.” I’m not even talking the grim-and-gritty Kraven’s Last Hunt. I’m talking his escapades in the Silver and Bronze Ages. Now I understand why he’s one of my friend Gary’s favorites.

So my mind was blown when I saw another Mark Menendez Faux Captain Action Outfit Masterpiece:

You know what I love about this? You can actually picture Kraven as a real person — and he doesn’t look ridiculous. (In context, I mean. If he were wandering down Fifth Avenue, people would stare.) What I’m saying is that I could see a guy like this in a movie.

Just not this movie:

But, wait! We’ve got another Captain Action Outfit That Never Was for you — a Batman villain! Click here.

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— 13 Great CAPTAIN ACTION OUTFITS That Never Were. Click here.

— MORE Great CAPTAIN ACTION OUTFITS That Never Were. Click here.