More Magnificent Mego Madness! Custom Packaging! Flash! Green Arrow! Spidey! Batman!

I've shown a few of my own custom Mego-like action figures before, but here is a look at the custom packaging I've created for many figures (old and new) over the years! Click each to enlarge!

Above: Different packaging for the recent Mattel "Retro-Action" Batman figure, including
classic 60s graphics by famed DC Comics artist, Carmine Infantino! The recent
Mego-like action figure line featured some very nice figures, but very
dull packaging!

Above: The original 1973 Mego Joker figure is seen on a spiffy new card that
sports classic 60s art by (again) Carmine Infantino! The bottom tier shows
off the new Lex Luthor and Captain Cold Mattel figures, but on great
new cards with eye-catching artwork!

Above: A custom Riddler card is used to display the new (as of 2014) action
figure produced by the Figures Toy Co. firm (who are re-offering the original
Mego Bat-figures to today's collectors and fans)! I again used great mid-60s
Infantino graphics, in an attempt to evoke the flavor of the 70s
Riddler Mego packaging!

Above: The new Mattel Superman figure is seen on a new card, while a
custom-made Robin figure gets the "original" card treatment (left), and
is also seen with a 70s Neal Adams "Teen Wonder" image (right)!

Above: Two different Green Arrow cards, and two different figures! On the left
is seen the new Mattel figure (with packaging that sports Neal Adams art), and, on
the right, Mego's original 1975 GA action figure, on a nice new card with
Curt Swan artwork! 

Above: Neal Adams art is seen with the new Mattel Green Lantern figure, but an
original 1974 Batgirl gets the Carmine Infantino treatment! We also see a Speedy
custom figure on a great card that features Nick Cardy art!

Above: A custom Flash figure is seen next to colossal Curt Swan artwork, as his
partner, Kid Flash (an original 1977 figure) is displayed on his own custom card!
The new Mattel Wonder Woman figure is seen on her own custom card with
Neal Adams art, while an original 1972 Aquaman is carded next to a classic image!

Above: It's the classic Aquaman card again! Aqualad's card sports nifty Nick Cardy TEEN TITANS art!

Above: It's the classic Aquaman card again, but this time it's paired with the new 
Mattel figure (left)! Captain Marvel (right) looks sharp on his own custom 
card, also!

Above: A classic 1973 Spider-Man figure has his choice of two card styles! One
with 60s Steve Ditko (Spidey's co-creator) art, or a snazzy card with jazzy
John Romita Sr. artwork!

Above: Why should Spidey have all the fun? Here is his arch foe, the
grinning Green Goblin (original 1974 figure), on his own custom card, with 
flawless art by John Romita, Sr.!

Above: Custom figures of Spider-Man foes Mysterio, Kingpin, and Electro are
seen with faux cards (with Dikto and Romita artwork), while Dr. Octopus
(a custom figure) is displayed with even more classic Silver Age Romita artwork!

Above: A custom Captain America is seen on two card types, both
spotlighting 60s comic art by Jack Kirby, Cap's 1940s co-creator!

Above: More madcap Marvel Megos! Spidey foes the Rhino and Vulture (both
customized figures) get custom cards, with more Romita art featured, while
Thor and Ant-Man (also a custom) get the Kirby treatment! Iron Man is an
original 1975 Mego figure, while Dr. Strange, a custom job, is seen on his
own occult-culled card with more riotous Romita art!

Above: My box art for my custom Rhino and Doc Ock
Mego figures! Made to look like the "real thing,"
if Mego had ever produced these figures!

WONDER WOMAN vs. the Nazis! 1975 Albert Bigley Original Art! DC Comics?!

Another bombastic blast from the past! Dig this 1975 Wonder Woman pencil drawing by me, age 10, from 1975! Obviously inspired by the then-new ABC-TV movie, THE NEW ORIGINAL WONDER WOMAN, here is the Amazing (and quite mannish) Amazon fighting high-flying Nazi felons (using her famed "Bullets and Bracelets" gimmick) in a World War Two setting! Click to enlarge!

Note the personalization in the upper left corner! Looks like I meant to give
this to my next-door neighbor of the time! But, since I still have it, that means
she somehow never took ownership of this dynamic drawing! Why she didn't
accept this fabulous masterpiece of modern art remains a mystery!


BONUS! Below is the custom logo used for the long-running ABC/CBS WONDER WOMAN TV series! You can tell it was what I had in mind (going only by memory in those pre-VCR or DVR days) when placing my own hand-drawn logo into the drawing above!

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA! Original 1977 Albert Bigley Art! DC Comics?! Batman?!

Here we go again! Take a look at this --er--interesting take on the long-standing superhero group, the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA! Drawn by me in early 1977 (age 11), here are all your favorite characters, seen as never before (ain't that the truth)! Also-don't miss my little note, to you, the wonderful viewer! Click to enlarge, JLAers!

"Get Us Out From Under..."

"Wonder Woman!"

Yes, done the day after the 1975 TV premiere of "The New, Original Wonder Woman," this was my attempt to capture the events of that TV epic. One of the few masterpieces of my youth that HAD to be colored, it was so darned special.

Yep, any 10-year old  reared on superhero comics starts out drawing females as guys with chest bumps, and I was no exception. Wondy looks like a linebacker! Dig that poor face-down dude to the left! Ouch! Looks like WW invaded a torture S/M den and trashed it! 

If you look closely, you can also see the famous "invisible jet" in the window..

I also added the graphic "popping stars" motif, from the comics-like graphics of the film...complete with logo..Maybe I thought this could be a "movie poster" type of illustration?

But, what great legs, huh?