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Movie Masters
Movie Masters is an action figure toyline from Mattel based on popular movie franchises, most notably DC Comics. The line has featured characters from the films ''Superman'', ''Avatar'', ''The Dark Knight'' trilogy, ''Green Lantern'', and '' Man of Steel''. Figures in the line are sculpted by Four Horsemen Studios, who also sculpted figures for Mattel's DC Superheroes and DC Universe Classics lines. 6" figures ''The Dark Knight'' In June 2008, these figures are based on the film ''The Dark Knight'' and its predecessor ''Batman Begins''. Single carded =Series 1= * Batman (''The Dark Knight'' suit) * Batman (''The Dark Knight'' suit, unmasked variant) * Gotham City Thug * The Joker =Series 2= * Batman (''Batman Begins'' suit) * Batman (''Batman Begins'' suit, demon variant) * Scarecrow =MattyCollector.com exclusives= These figures (with the exception of Joker as Gotham City Thug) were also available at Toys "R" Us beginning in April 2010: * The Joker as Gotham City Thug * Surviva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Action Figure
An action figure is a poseable character (arts), character model figure made most commonly of plastic, and often based upon characters from a film, comic book, military, video game or television program; fictional or historical. These figures are usually marketing, marketed toward boys and adult collectors. The term was coined by Hasbro in 1964 to market G.I. Joe to boys (while competitors called similar offerings ''boy's dolls''). According to a 2005 study in Sweden, action figures which display traditional Masculinity, masculine traits primarily target boys. While most commonly marketed as a child's toy, the action figure has gained widespread acceptance as collecting, collector item for adults. In such a case, the item may be produced and designed on the assumption it will be bought solely for display as a collectible and not played with like a child's toy. History Precursors Articulated dolls go back to at least 200 BCE, with articulated clay and wooden dolls of ancient ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scarecrow (DC Comics)
The Scarecrow is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, and debuted in ''World's Finest Comics'' #3 in September 1941. The Scarecrow is depicted as one of the most enduring enemies of the superhero Batman and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his List of Batman family enemies#Classic rogues gallery, rogues gallery. In his comic book appearances, the Scarecrow is the alter ego of Jonathan Crane, a brilliant professor of psychology turned criminal mastermind. Abused and bullied in his youth, Crane develops an obsession with fear and uses a specially designed Psychedelic drug, hallucinogenic drug–dubbed "fear toxin"–to exploit the phobias of the people of Gotham City and its protector, Batman. As the self-proclaimed "Master of Fear", the Scarecrow's crimes do not stem from a common desire for wealth or power, but from a cruel pleasure in terrorizing innocents to further hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parallax (comics)
Parallax is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Publication history Created by writer Ron Marz and artist Darryl Banks for ''Green Lantern'' vol. 3 #48 (January 1994), Parallax was originally devised as the new supervillain identity for then-former Green Lantern protagonist Hal Jordan. After further changes for the Hal Jordan character over the subsequent years (sacrificing his life in order to reignite Earth's Sun in the 1996 crossover storyline "The Final Night", and Jordan's soul subsequently becoming the newest host of the Spectre in the 1999 miniseries ''Day of Judgment''), 2004's '' Green Lantern: Rebirth'' once again cast Jordan as a heroic Green Lantern and explained Parallax as an ancient entity embodying the yellow light of fear which possessed Jordan and drove him to his villainous actions. Parallax was revealed to have been once imprisoned within the Central Power Battery on the planet Oa, from which all Green Lanterns derive their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
