Matty Collector is selling a set of Justice Guild figures, featuring the Justice Society stand-ins Green Guardsman (Green Lantern), The Streak (Flash), Black Siren (Black Canary) and Tom Turbine from the Justice League animated episode, “Legends” (via JSA Round Table).
Newsarama has pictures of DC Direct’s JLA Classified Series 3, featuring such classics as Professor Zoom (more or less; the design is sort of a hybrid between Eobard Thawne and Hunter Zolomon), Superman Red (not to be confused with Superman Blue), the Atom, and Hal Jordan (special extra-grumpy edition).
Techland has a first look at the DC Chronicles: The Flash statue. This series is “created to capture the original depictions of DC Comics’ most renowned heroes” according to the DC Direct website. So far they’ve announced Golden Age Superman, Golden Age Batman, Golden Age Wonder Woman, and Golden Age Aquaman. Naturally, the next statue is Silver Age Flash.
It’s a great statue of Barry Allen, but shouldn’t a line designed around the original versions of DC’s characters feature, well, the original version of the character?
Nuts, I was hoping that statue was actually an action figure. Statues are just a tad pricier…
It looks great.
“It’s a great statue of Barry Allen, but shouldn’t a line designed around the original versions of DC’s characters feature, well, the original version of the character?”
Yeah, when the Chronicles line first developed, they used the word “original” to describe the sort of iconic, early representation of the characters. But there are some weird exceptions, like Aquaman: Nobody’s ever reprinted his EARLY stories. Just his Silver Age ones, since (apparently) they’re definitive.
I guess it’s the same thing with Flash; Barry is the definitive version of the character, hence why he’s included with the “originals”.
Kind of like how the Flash Archives star Barry, not Jay. Jay’s archives are called “Golden Age” Archives to distinguish them.