I received two of these yesterday, it’s an almost 7 inch figure (so bigger than the Mattel DC Universe/DCUC’s) I purchased from a Chinese seller when I was looking for some Henry Cavill Superman miniatures that were based on the Gentle Giant sculpt that were officially released with some of the BluRay deluxe sets of MoS, and some other cake toppers and what was/is definitely the Speedy from the DC Universe Infinite Young Justice line - sadly sans bow), whose entire storefront has now been taken down. The storefront mostly sold cake toppers, both DC and Marvel, some anime figurines, and this was the only quasi action figure they listed.
The closest match to it I could find was a Mattel with say six more points of articulation (the usual thigh and upper arm cuts, etc).
The cape on the one I have in mind is also different.
It would match up with the COIE’s Earth 2 Superman, save those are listed as 6" figures AND the face is different plus it’s missing the “white/grey” hair on the “temples” side of the head sculpt. But the bright red boots and similar articulation points would be a near close match.
It also looks close to other COIE figures like the Earth Prime Superboy but again at least one or two things are off. I’d love to say it’s the DC Direct JLA (with the flag) but it really looks more of a knock off since the one I obtained has no ab definition at all. Likewise, with the Reactivated Supes. Even the Showcase Presents has a tad more ab definition in the torso than this.
My best guess of potential DC Direct is the one that came in the Matt Wagner Trinity box but I can’t find an image of a loose one of that to be certain. And if that’s IS the case, I might be inclined to mark-up the EFF out of one to resell one and keep the other.
It was sold as “new” but, of course, unboxed and was only, IIRC $4.50 or $5. It came with a (separately packaged) large round, plain black base, and the base definitely has the DC Comics (c) imprint on the bottom and also has a “DCD” designation, which makes me think of DC Direct. The base would match those oversized ones they produced with Green paint and the logo for the Lantern figures or the ones they produced for those Diana figures that had the 1990, early 2000s issues, flowing Wonder Woman logo design from those comics. Those were the slightly thicker ‘wedge’ bases from the current MTS bases. But again, the base was separately bagged, and clearly just tossed in before being shrink wrapped with the action figure - I have no definitive way of knowing that those bases were intended for these figures. The figure itself has no numbers or logos, legends, or wording of any kind.
However, for example, all these Superman/Batman series also have no markings, of the loose figures I own that I am certain are DC Directs.
I took two of them since I figured they would make better kit bash options for say a Justice Lord custom - since I personally am not at all a fan of the DCAU body buck models, even the newer ones from MTS, nor of Bruce Timm’s models, particular for Clark.
I’m inclined to suspect this might be a fully bootleg/knock off, or a factory reject that was not allowed to be sold (one of the ‘cake toppers’ I bought is a Mattel Brave and the Bold Superman ‘action’ toys, missing all the action parts, but with the hole in the back for them, but it clearly has two left arms, for example. I bought what I thought was a Barry Allen Flash that went with the Young Justice line, since it matches those build, but only the arms move, it has no waist articulation, the head barely turns and it’s stuck on a base and is one inch plus smaller. So possibly a figurine that went with the YJ DVD’s?
I’ve been watching a handful of Chinese sellers, typically the ones that sell things using the stock photos for say the Christopher Reeve NECA or something comparable popular, like the TDK Heath Ledger Joker, or the Far From Home spideys, and those seem to disappear a month or 6+ weeks only to have other sellers take their place, all in China, although I’ve noticed some now shipping from Sri Lanka, I believe it was.
Any thoughts from the class?
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