Super-DuperToyBox: September 2023

Monday, September 4, 2023

McFarlane DC Multiverse Hush Superman & Anti-Monitor

I've written about my issues with posing McFarlane figures and their pinchy joints that have bit my fingers more than twice, but here we are again with a couple new releases, Hush Superman and Anti-Monitor. There are just some McFarlane figures I'm going to pick up because of their great sculpt and/or deco...

I have a few other Kryptonian McFarlane figures, but no conventional, classic Superman. I never picked up that first Action #1000 Superman, mostly annoyed by the omission of the S insignia on the cape. The portrait is stylized like the Jim Lee Superman from Hush and may be lacking warmth in the skin tones, but he's a decent classic Superman.

Below, Hush Superman with Jonathan Kent Superman and Kon-El Superboy...

Hush Superman with the quite possibly the only character more powerful in the DC Universe,

orphan of another lost planet, and one of my favorite, Martian Manhunter...

I had to show the Crisis on Infinite Earths artwork on the verso

of this Anti-Monitor's box by the late, great George Perez...

I was mostly excited to photograph this Anti-Monitor with my Superboy Prime, another important character in the Crisis on Infinite Earths book, whose version of Earth was consumed in the light of the Anti-Monitor. I had much smaller DC Direct Anti-Monitor I loved but sold him a few years ago.