[Maverick]

I'm glad this has it's own thread as I don't care for 6 inch Mattel much. I only started buying them when the new 52 stuff came out. DCC has actually made me card about dc toys as I really love the sculpts and paint apps are always top notch. The best part though I can just order online whatever I want no store searching or having to buy a case just to get the one figure I want that I know I will never find on a peg.

[Beatlefan333]

Thanks for the support maverick

[CMIII]

yes they are where a cape was I do not have that figure but have a DCD figure of Superman and he has the same things. For some reason DCD/DCC is crap when it comes to seperated capes (like Superman) and they fall off

[3233rafael]

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Originally Posted by Phantomcrow

I really like New 52 Bizarro. I like that he is not dumb or kind of a goof. He is just an underdeveloped clone, the way 80s Bizarro was. I like this way better than he is from some other reverse world. I wish the figure was a little more white skinned so he would not seem so Zombie like. I want to white wash the figure and add some Glow in the Dark paint to the wash :-)

Exactly, he does not look goof, instead he looks like he's ready to fight anything that stands on his way!

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that bizarre looks like WD Zombie Merle...sweet....now to find one without spendin an arm and a leg

Yes, his face looks zombieish... but it is still better that the usual DC Bizarro face IMO.

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I assume those impressions in its shoulders and collar area are where the cape was before, kind of looks to me like Clayface mid-transformation into Superman.

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Originally Posted by CMIII

yes they are where a cape was I do not have that figure but have a DCD figure of Superman and he has the same things. For some reason DCD/DCC is crap when it comes to seperated capes (like Superman) and they fall off

Yup, the cape comes off very easily for some reason (it's kinda heavy for him) but he looks cool with or without it though.

[En Sabah Nerd]

I like how his right bicep is swiveled backwards in box there, but his hand is facing proper.

[CMIII]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I like how his right bicep is swiveled backwards in box there, but his hand is facing proper.

I had that issue with DCUC Stargirl they packaged the figure with the arms facing the opposite direction (how did I know... Stargirls Arm stars are on the outter arm not inner). I open them so she is displayed properly

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by CMIII

I had that issue with DCUC Stargirl they packaged the figure with the arms facing the opposite direction (how did I know... Stargirls Arm stars are on the outter arm not inner). I open them so she is displayed properly

Well I suppose even if you were a MOC/MIB collector you could open it, reposition the arm, and then close it again (as long as it's a box). And don't give me that "but then it isn't really mint", it's a toy, unless it's a convention exclusive or proven valuable nostalgia piece, open it. I don't care for the "I don't open them because they'll lose value" either because it's almost guaranteed 50/50 on whether any toy gains or loses value, and if your only reason for buying toys is hoping that they gain value and you can flip 'em that way, then you made a horrible purchasing decision. That changed from how to make a toy look better in box into a rant about my dislike of why some people keep toys mint, but I feel it needed to be said.
I do sometimes see why someone would keep a toy mint, like if it's already old and valuable, a particularly liked convention exclusive, or nostalgic. Hell, I understand keeping them mint because you like the look of it in the box. Toys are still just toys though, if you're looking for resell income, look at house/car flipping, not toys. I'm sure there probably aren't even a lot of people here who do it for those purposes. If that's why you do it why do you have an account to talk about how you like toys on a forum? I open my toys, save some old ones that don't stack up to the toys of today and one exclusive which falls to similar circumstance, because I feel the best and truest way to enjoy a figure is to hold it in your hands and see all the little efforts put into it. Then I display them somewhere and every now and then while cleaning I like to fiddle with them, find new poses, rearrange them, the works.
Then again I'm not everyone, I don't want to be everyone, I like doing things the way I do them and that's fine.

[Kernel]

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Originally Posted by 3233rafael

Exactly, he does not look goof, instead he looks like he's ready to fight anything that stands on his way!



Yes, his face looks zombieish... but it is still better that the usual DC Bizarro face IMO.

I like the zombie look too, what a great movie villain bizarro could make if they made him look like a zombie but with a hint of goodness like in red son.
Was gonna get that sdcc doomsday but after shipping it was close to $50. Easy pass unless it was an unleashed version.

[Dr Kain]

Did you expect him to suddenly cost less with shipping? I bought him from an ebay seller for $55 shipped because I knew with shipping it was going to come close to $50. I was more than willing to pay more to not have to support Digital River.

[CMIII]

Digital River's motto should be "Slow shipping, for the highest Price". I bet people wont get Doomsday until almost Labor Day

[305Batman]

Glad I haven't read a comic in years,HATE the Nu52 looks,looks like Bizarro stole Superman's pants,then stole one of those distressed Superman T-shirts at Target!

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by 305Batman

Glad I haven't read a comic in years,HATE the Nu52 looks,looks like Bizarro stole Superman's pants,then stole one of those distressed Superman T-shirts at Target!

I haven't read DC since Secret Six ended in 2011 just before the New 52 (I don't really count Vertigo as DC), and while I also prefer most everyone's pre relaunch (whichever relaunch was before New 52) looks I wouldn't say "Hate" applies to all. Though the glossy pants do clash with the matte shirt quite profoundly on Bizarro. I'm also not a big fan of the lines on everybody's costumes. Batman I get is like how in Arkham Asylum it's armor plates/pads, but Superman and Flash don't really need armor so them also having the lines looks more like they wanted to look as cool as Batman, but failed. It's not like the lines make Superman more super or the Flash any faster.

[Feijai]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I would be lying if I said that the comic bane (CollectAndConnect or BuildaFigure, which ever eases the tongue) was not my favorite. I've always liked Bane, and his original comic appearance still stands as my go-to look. However I am going for an all Arkham-verse mini-collection, that is to say Arkham-verse only, not every single figure from the line thereof. Also coming upon a DCUC Bane isn't so cheap.
Side note: one aspect of the Origins design that slightly bothers me (bothers isn't quite the right word) is that the white of his mask is the pattern he used from Secret Six (the last DC comic series I ever read) which is weird since that design came later, and that figure is supposed to be Bane from the beginning of the Arkham-verse.
I like almost every Bane, even the red hulking version from The Batman. And for some reason I really like the gimp(ish) version from The New Batman Adventures. The only one I really don't like is celery-man from Schumacher, who kind of just raped Batman in general.

The Bane from Batman Knightfall is my favorite Bane of all time.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Feijai

The Bane from Batman Knightfall is my favorite Bane of all time.

Of course Bane's original look is his best, one of few characters who can make such a claim. Seriously think about it, there aren't many characters whose very original designs were their best. Either they were silly when they began or grew in time. Bane has the rare luxury of starting in the 90s when artists knew how they wanted a character to look and understood that eventually they would change with time.
I also note that on most of the covers debuting Bane he was a hulking behemoth, but interior art showed more realistic large guy frame Bane.

[Dr Kain]

I actually think the original designs for Joker and Catwoman are the best too. At least, if the ones I'm thinking of were the original ones.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

I actually think the original designs for Joker and Catwoman are the best too. At least, if the ones I'm thinking of were the original ones.

Joker has always been fairly consistent, albeit a less colorful costume and more of a duster/overcoat than later. The Joker falls more to the "better with time" appearance, later printing methods and more detailed artists breathe more life into a classic and iconic idea.
Catwoman's original costume was as I find, a bright yellow piece with high collar, an orange cape, and a purple-gray cat mask. I'm not entirely sure this is the costume you refer to.

[Dr Kain]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Joker has always been fairly consistent, albeit a less colorful costume and more of a duster/overcoat than later. The Joker falls more to the "better with time" appearance, later printing methods and more detailed artists breathe more life into a classic and iconic idea.
Catwoman's original costume was as I find, a bright yellow piece with high collar, an orange cape, and a purple-gray cat mask. I'm not entirely sure this is the costume you refer to.

No, that definitely ins't the costume them. This is the costume I like for Catwoman:

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[CMIII]

clearly you haven't seen New 52 Joker. He looks like a Gein family reject

[trebleshot]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Catwoman's original costume was as I find, a bright yellow piece with high collar, an orange cape, and a purple-gray cat mask. I'm not entirely sure this is the costume you refer to.

Technically, that yellow dress/cat mask outfit was Selena Kyle's first costume, yes. But it was not Catwoman's first costume. From her debut in 1940 until 1947, Selena Kyle didn't go by Catwoman - she was simply known as The Cat. It wasn't until 7 years after her comic debut that she took the name Catwoman. At that point she started wearing the much more iconic and well-known purple dress/green cape combo (which is technically Catwoman's first costume).

This link has a really cool history/breakdown of Selena's/Catwoman's costumes over the years, if anyone is interested.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Technically, that yellow dress/cat mask outfit was Selena Kyle's first costume, yes. But it was not Catwoman's first costume. From her debut in 1940 until 1947, Selena Kyle didn't go by Catwoman - she was simply known as The Cat. It wasn't until 7 years after her comic debut that she took the name Catwoman. At that point she started wearing the much more iconic and well-known purple dress/green cape combo (which is technically Catwoman's first costume).

This link has a really cool history/breakdown of Selena's/Catwoman's costumes over the years, if anyone is interested.

I'm not such a DC historian, but I would still count it as first costume since the cover with the brightly colored costume reads "The Batman versus The Cat-Woman!" I imagine that would have been a neat exclusive at some point for Catwoman fans (or maybe it's already been made, don't yell at me I said I'm new to these toys).

[trebleshot]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

I'm not such a DC historian, but I would still count it as first costume since the cover with the brightly colored costume reads "The Batman versus The Cat-Woman!" I imagine that would have been a neat exclusive at some point for Catwoman fans (or maybe it's already been made, don't yell at me I said I'm new to these toys).

Do you mean this splash page from Batman #3?



She's still referred to as The Cat in that same call-out and throughout that story (the issue had several stories in it). The "Cat-Woman" part was meant as a figure of speech, not a code name. Notice the hyphen in the name as well. She didn't adopt Catwoman as the name for her costumed identity until much later.

Of course, if you still want to consider her costume as The Cat as Catwoman's first, that's your prerogative. For me, I still make the distinction.

...not to mention the fact that I think The Cat's costume is silly, even by 1940's standards. It's a bright yellow dress with a orange cape and a purple Halloween mask. Sounds like a great idea for someone who should have stealth as her highest priority being a cat burglar.

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by trebleshot

Do you mean this one?



She's still referred to as The Cat in that same call-out and throughout that issue. The "Cat-Woman" part was meant as a figure of speech, not a code name. Notice the hyphen in the name as well. She didn't adopt Catwoman as the name for her costumed identity until much later.

Of course, if you still want to consider her costume as The Cat as Catwoman's first, that's your prerogative. For me, I still make the distinction.

...not to mention the fact that I think The Cat's costume is silly, even by 1940's standards. It's a bright yellow dress with a orange cape and a purple Halloween mask. Sounds like a great idea for someone who should have stealth as her highest priority being a cat burglar.

Yes that's it. I typically do use a character's name over identity, so while I acknowledge that this isn't Catwoman's first (I assumed Cat-Woman was like Spider-Man, a hyphen for hyphen's sake), it is Selina Kyle's first costume.
My only point point in ever venturing into characters' original costumes was to say that Bane (and many characters formed in the 90s) was unique in having his very first costume stick and be his most iconic base.
@ CMIII, you were right I don't read New 52. That being said, I looked up his new look, eww. I only meant that artists who used the original concept and put in the finer details made it look better with time, not that mess. And his face getting cut off, I don't know the point or reason of it, but this feels like DC is borrowing a little from Marvel this time. In Marvel Moon Knight is one of the Batman characters (rich, brooding, a detective, martial arts master, etc.), the distinct difference is that Moon Knight is a schizophrenic with dissociative identity disorder (an acute multiple personality disorder). My point is eventually Moon Knight cuts off his arch-villain's face, and later the villain is brought back from the dead and wears his cut off face as a mask. I feel like New 52 Joker did this too, granted it wasn't Batman who cut it off (I gather from reading) and the act didn't kill The Joker, but the idea of it feels borrowed. Back to New 52, just no, and Joker has a daughter now too?! I mean I don't read the comics anymore, but who thought that was a good new pitch?

[Dr Kain]

So did anyone see the picture I posted before it was taken down for some random reason?

[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

So did anyone see the picture I posted before it was taken down for some random reason?

Well I didn't at least, just save the same picture, then put it onto your photobucket (or whichever you use that this site supports) and then post it again.

[Poison Shadow]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Yes that's it. I typically do use a character's name over identity, so while I acknowledge that this isn't Catwoman's first (I assumed Cat-Woman was like Spider-Man, a hyphen for hyphen's sake), it is Selina Kyle's first costume.
My only point point in ever venturing into characters' original costumes was to say that Bane (and many characters formed in the 90s) was unique in having his very first costume stick and be his most iconic base.
@ CMIII, you were right I don't read New 52. That being said, I looked up his new look, eww. I only meant that artists who used the original concept and put in the finer details made it look better with time, not that mess. And his face getting cut off, I don't know the point or reason of it, but this feels like DC is borrowing a little from Marvel this time. In Marvel Moon Knight is one of the Batman characters (rich, brooding, a detective, martial arts master, etc.), the distinct difference is that Moon Knight is a schizophrenic with dissociative identity disorder (an acute multiple personality disorder). My point is eventually Moon Knight cuts off his arch-villain's face, and later the villain is brought back from the dead and wears his cut off face as a mask. I feel like New 52 Joker did this too, granted it wasn't Batman who cut it off (I gather from reading) and the act didn't kill The Joker, but the idea of it feels borrowed. Back to New 52, just no, and Joker has a daughter now too?! I mean I don't read the comics anymore, but who thought that was a good new pitch?

When the New 52 started, Joker had the Dollmaker slice off his face. During Grant Morrison's Batman run from a few years back, he did a story about how Joker has a psychological need to go through a transformation every few years to reinvent himself. It happened during a very bizarre issue which was basically a short prose story with only a few illustrations throughout, and it described his "process" as being a very physical metamorphosis. That particular issue ended with him splitting his tongue in half with a razor blade, making it seem as though he had a serpent's tongue on top of his new personality and mannerisms.

I've always liked that idea, as well as the New 52 DCC Joker figure itself too - so much, in fact, that I have both the blue and orange versions. Didn't set out to get both, but ended up with them all the same. I just wish the articulation was a little better, but I do like the "slasher movie icon" look in general. It is what it is: a temporary reinvention of a popular character. I can't blame anyone who doesn't like it, though. It is very weird.

A character calling herself The Joker's Daughter now wears his face as a mask after his disappearance. She's a part of the Suicide Squad with Harley Quinn.