Title : The 30-Plus YEARS 'EVOLUTION' Of My MARX TWISTABLE BATMAN..
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The 30-Plus YEARS 'EVOLUTION' Of My MARX TWISTABLE BATMAN..
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| Bats with first replacement emblem, cape, belt, & bat-a-rang. Excuse the fuzziness, but this is enlarged from a tiny section of a bigger pic |
As you may recall me mentioning, around 30-odd years ago when I first acquired him, he was missing his utility belt, bat-a-rang, and chest emblem. He had his cape, but it was stained and grubby, so I made a replacement out of felt, using the original cape as a template. I made the first belt also from felt, the second was an actual utility belt from a different Batman figure, and the newest one is made from a card printout of a scan of an actual Marx belt.
| Bats with third replacement emblem, second cape, and second belt |
My first bat emblem utilised the official DC bat symbol from the '80s and '90s (see first photo), the second was modelled after the moulded emblem on the Aurora Batman model kit (see photo below), and the latest (see fourth and final photo) is a copy of an original Marx symbol from a second (and recent) Marx Batman figure. So, more than 30 years after obtaining my first replacement, he now looks practically as he did when he was new back in the '60s.
For some reason his cape was always a tad darker than the blue of his cowl, gloves, and boots, so after quite a few years I made another one of a slightly lighter blue, though it was still darker than his plastic parts, but the contrast wasn't so pronounced. I still have his original stained and worn cape and seriously thought about restoring it to the figure, but it was just too tatty-looking so I abandoned the idea, though it would've been nice had it been good enough to use.
| The Aurora emblem. I don't seem to have a pic of it on the Marx BM |
Oddly, there's a slight difference in the blue hue of the plastic between my first and second Batman figures, but I suppose that's just down to the vagaries of mass-produced items. Also, the second figure is a few millimetres taller than the first, but as they were hand-assembled in a factory in Hong Kong, it's likely quite a common divergence between the thousands or millions of them manufactured back in the day at the height of the 'bat-craze'.
Anyway, I thought I'd remind you of how he's looked down through the years via photos from previous posts and show you how he looks now. When you've perused them, you can leave a comment telling me what an incredibly gifted and talented individual I am. Hello... anyone there? (Yeah, I know you're not interested, McS, but force yourself.)
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| Finally... looking much more like he did when first made in the '60s |
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