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| BATMAN copyright DC COMICS |
You're looking at an extremely rare Marx Toys Poseable Batman figure from the '60s, which arrived at Castel Crivens yesterday. This is my third time around with this toy as I previously owned two of them - though not at the same time - when I was a kid. I last had this toy back around the late '60s when I swapped it (I must've been ill) for a Marx soldier figure with the same head as Batman. (I've now got two soldiers, acquired just over three years ago in 2021.)
Bats arrived with most of his accessories, but sans cape and cowl, though part of his mask was a black sticker (with eyeholes) over the top half of his face. It survives, but needs a little remedial work to restore it to its former glory, though truth to tell, when I make a new cape and cowl, I probably won't incorporate the sticker so as not to permanently obscure Bruce Wayne's upper face as was the case in the toy's original form. No, I'll do a better job, as the original one-piece cape and cowl (apart from the sticker) was made of an easily-fraying fabric, which is likely why it didn't survive to accompany wee Bats to my house.
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| The surviving accessories from the figure above |
I've told the following tale a couple of times before, but on the evening I swapped Batman for my pal's soldier, he was showing the toy to one of my brother's pals, who suddenly said "Let's see if he can fly" and launched it with some force across the playing field we were standing in. Sadly, poor Bats didn't survive his descent to terra firma. Over the decades, I started to lament his fate with a growing intensity - oddly lacking at the time (no doubt because he no longer belonged to me), and I'm really glad for the opportunity to roll back time and be reunited with a toy from my youth.
Below is the toy (not mine - image 'borrowed' from... somewhere) as it originally appeared in the shops back then. Anyone else ever own one? If so, permit your fellow Crivvies to dine on your memories before they fade beyond your ability to recall. And out of all the Batman merchandise you once owned (if any), which one was your favourite that you'd like to own again if you could?
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| Is it just me, or does the face look a bit like MICHAEL KEATON? |