Mattel DC Figures

[SDcomics]

Blue Marvel's original solo series is really good. He's a main character in Al Ewing's short-lived but excellent Ultimates series, too.

Kevin Grevioux sold me on Adam: The Legend of the Blue Marvel at SDCC the year it came out. A great, epic story of pre-Civil Rights era America. A must read.

I've been thinking that this thread is the ultimate distillation of the toy-collecting community. We have some idea of how Mattel will operate based on their wrestling lines and new MOTU figures, and we know they're likely to model the line off of Marvel Legends, but we really have no idea.

I'd be willing to bet my entire comic book collection that there'll be a Mattel/DC panel at SDCC this year.*

*(maybe)

It's hope and wishlisting all the way down.

"What's the 'S' stand for?"

"It's not an 'S'. On my world it means hope."

 

[SDcomics]

Rocketeer had an indie comic. Created by Dave Stevens, published by Pacific Comics in 1982. Disney made a movie in 1991. Apparently now own the character. Pretty short jump to MLs.

Years and years ago, back in the late 90's I think, I was in the DC booth at SDCC and saw Dave Stevens talking to some DC staffers. Julie Schwartz asked him "Hey, whatever happened to that Superman book you were working on"? My spidey sense tingled. Dave Stevens? On Superman? Dave looked a little upset and said "That's probably not gonna happen." So a little later on I talked to Dave at his booth and asked him about it. Yeah, he was ticked off about the whole thing. Dave wanted to do a Superman/Rocketeer story set in the late 1930's with the Martians from H.G.Wells War of the Worlds. The idea got nixed by Mike Carlin because Dave wanted to write Superman as he was in the Golden Age: The mean Superman who thought nothing of grabbing a gangster by the neck, leaping with him to the top of a tall building and dangling him over the edge. The Superman who thought nothing of killing Nazi's. In other words, the Superman who didn't have time for bullshit. NOT the sweet Silver Age Superman who had a flying dog in a cape and appeared on jars of peanut butter. There was also a sub plot with Bettie Page and Lois Lane that made the higher ups at DC clutch their pearls. So sadly, no Superman/Rocketeer story. Mores the pity. It sounded really epic. It's always the fans who lose out when projects like this get axed.

One of my big dream projects is an Indiana Jones/Rocketeer/Invaders crossover set during World War II, with the Red Skull and Baron Zemo ("The Death Ray of Dr. Zemo!") as the villains and Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos as supporting characters. I even have an epilogue in mind. 20 years later, archeologist Henry Jones Jr and pilot Cliff Secord are on an expedition in the arctic. They discover what appears to be a human frozen in a block of ice. They can't quite make out who it is, but they do see what appears to be a red, white and blue shield. Henry makes a call to an old friend: Nicholas Fury, no longer a Sergeant, now a full Colonel and head of the espionage agency called SHIELD.

It will probably never happen but hey. Dreaming is free.

 

[Atomic Knight]

What’s the likelihood of a potential Rocketeer figure from Marvel Legends at some point? After all, ROM showed up. So did Crystar after they said he wouldn’t. Any forward movement on Bug and Marionette? All that blurry 70’s/80’s Marvel stuff with one foot in the Marvel Universe I loved as a kid/teen.

 

[Ultra Seven]

One of my big dream projects is an Indiana Jones/Rocketeer/Invaders crossover set during World War II, with the Red Skull and Baron Zemo ("The Death Ray of Dr. Zemo!") as the villains and Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos as supporting characters. I even have an epilogue in mind. 20 years later, archeologist Henry Jones Jr and pilot Cliff Secord are on an expedition in the arctic. They discover what appears to be a human frozen in a block of ice. They can't quite make out who it is, but they do see what appears to be a red, white and blue shield. Henry makes a call to an old friend: Nicholas Fury, no longer a Sergeant, now a full Colonel and head of the espionage agency called SHIELD.

It will probably never happen but hey. Dreaming is free.

Why sir, add in Doc Savage (who, in the original graphic novel, created the Rocketeer's jetpack!), and I'm absolutely IN! I love crossover stories like that ... I always wanted to have Indy and the Howlers on Skull Island.

 

[Chooch555]

Wait, was the Lois Lane/Bettie Page subplot sexual???

 

[SDcomics]

What’s the likelihood of a potential Rocketeer figure from Marvel Legends at some point? After all, ROM showed up. So did Crystar after they said he wouldn’t.

Anything's possible. I will ask Hasbro about the Rocketeer at SDCC.

Any forward movement on Bug and Marionette? All that blurry 70’s/80’s Marvel stuff with one foot in the Marvel Universe I loved as a kid/teen.

Dwight told me a couple of SDCC's back that Hasbro can make Micronauts in the scale and style of Marvel Legends. I don't know if they will or not, but they can.

 

[SDcomics]

Why sir, add in Doc Savage (who, in the original graphic novel, created the Rocketeer's jetpack!), and I'm absolutely IN! I love crossover stories like that ... I always wanted to have Indy and the Howlers on Skull Island.

And "Jonas" (aka The Shadow) was in Rocketeer Adventure Magazine. Shadow, Doc Savage, Tarzan, Flash Gordon, the Green Hornet ... the more the merrier.

 

[Atomic Knight]

Anything's possible. I will ask Hasbro about the Rocketeer at SDCC.



Dwight told me a couple of SDCC's back that Hasbro can make Micronauts in the scale and style of Marvel Legends. I don't know if they will or not, but they can.

That’s pretty cool to hear.

 

[SDcomics]

Wait, was the Lois Lane/Bettie Page subplot sexual???

Well, it involved Bettie and Lois being in their underwear and tied to chairs by Gangsters. That's just a normal day for Bettie Page but it would have been somewhat out of the ordinary for Lois.

Well, the being in her underwear part.

 

[jayjonah]

I think you may have missed the joke.

Yeah, that happens to me a lot and I still don't get it.

 

[Damien]

I feel like explaining the joke makes it even less funny than it probably already was, so I'll just let you ruminate on it for a while. Don't worry, you're not missing much. I'm no George Carlin.

 

[PanchaMaestro]

Now I want a Ricketeer comic and figure.

 

[Atomic Knight]

Now I want a Ricketeer comic and figure.

Good callback. I want a Racketeer. Like Vito Corleone, Jimmy Conway, Tony Soprano, etc.

 

[SDcomics]

Good callback. I want a Racketeer. Like Vito Corleone, Jimmy Conway, Tony Soprano, etc.

Donald Trump ... Rudy Giuliani ... Mike Lindell ...

 

[scottg10]

Regarding The Ricketeer, or The Rocketeer, as he is more commonly known, Disney does not own the character outright, rights are split between Disney and Dave Stevens estate. Disney owns the movie and TV rights and related merchandise. Dave Stevens estate owns the comic rights and related merchandise. The DST figure was from the movie, since DST had the rights to produce various Disney properties at the time. Other figures, such as Loose Collector and Fresh Monkey Fiction, were the comic versions. The primary difference is the jet pack. The More You Know...

I'd be down for an ML version (I collect the character a bit obsessively), though it likely won't be that different from the Loose Collector version (besides the jet pack), but a lot cheaper of course.