Comments on: Toys I Wish I Still Had #1: Mego Superheroes http://spandexjustice.com/2006/03/26/88 Fighting Crime And Looking Good Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:55:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: RAB http://spandexjustice.com/2006/03/26/88#comment-275 RAB Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:18:24 +0000 http://spandexjustice.com/2006/03/26/88#comment-275 You never had a Captain Marvel -- or "Shazam!" as the packaging had to call him, for obvious reasons? That was one of my more cherished possessions. Though my favorite from the Mego line was actually Spider-Man. I remember right about the time I got the Spider-Man figure, an issue of Marvel Team-Up had Spidey (teamed with Black Panther, if memory serves) facing a herd of dinosaurs set loose in New York City...so I took my Aurora snap-together dinosaur models and set up a three-dimensional tableau of the Mego Spider-Man versus the Aurora dinosaurs. Since the scale didn't match, one had to assume they were pygmy dinosaurs. Or alternately, that Spider-Man was thirty feet tall...but that would have been silly, and one thing a boy doesn't want when contemplating Spider-Man fighting dinosaurs is for it to be silly. You never had a Captain Marvel — or “Shazam!” as the packaging had to call him, for obvious reasons? That was one of my more cherished possessions.

Though my favorite from the Mego line was actually Spider-Man. I remember right about the time I got the Spider-Man figure, an issue of Marvel Team-Up had Spidey (teamed with Black Panther, if memory serves) facing a herd of dinosaurs set loose in New York City…so I took my Aurora snap-together dinosaur models and set up a three-dimensional tableau of the Mego Spider-Man versus the Aurora dinosaurs. Since the scale didn’t match, one had to assume they were pygmy dinosaurs. Or alternately, that Spider-Man was thirty feet tall…but that would have been silly, and one thing a boy doesn’t want when contemplating Spider-Man fighting dinosaurs is for it to be silly.

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