Michael, that's actually the most recent Robotman from the Keith Giffen series, making the exclusion of any Byrne artwork in that 'zine fairly inexplicable.

The Elasti-Girl figure in the Eaglemoss line is also from that series, which explains her "stretching" powers. While such abilities would previously have been off-model for the size-changing character, in the most recent iteration of the title, Giffen explained that the way in which the rat-bastard Chief "saved" Rita from Zahl and Rouge's attempt on their lives was to clone and regrow her from an experimental protoplasm, giving her not only shape-changing powers more in line with the general readership's post-Incredibles expectations, but a constantly endangered mental state and sense that she wasn't a real person.

Oct Previews, part of the Chess Set (Special)

Gah!! Saw this, and looked on the website to see what some of the upcoming ones are (I quite like the Burton movie one, and the Dozier TV one, but I'm hoping for some of the better-looking comicbook ones).

Obviously those two are #1 and #2, with the 'Tumbler' and 'Batman Forever' ones being #3 and #4 (urgh - no thanks to either...), followed by:

#5 - Detective Comics #400 (1970). Bit plain for my liking - not really fond of the 'blue car with a Bat head painted on' look, m'self.

#6 - Detective Comics #156 (1950). Nice. Been made in model form before, but this might be the best version I've seen. Definite possibility.

#7 - Batman #575 (2000). Probably one of the few decent designs from the recent-ish comics - shades of a Porsche/Lotus. Maybe, maybe...

#8 - The Animated Series (1992). Favourite Batmobile EVER. Going to auction off my left nut for this one.

#9 - Batman #5 (1941) - Like the 1950 one, it's been done before by Corgi, but this is a nice update, although I'm not quite as partial to it, personally.

#10 - Batman #311 (1979). No pic, and I can't recall what it looked like off-hand. I suspect it's one of the sleek 'futuristic-sports-car' ones, in which case it might be another potential buy.



They're also doing some specials - a 1989 movie Batwing (aargh - I've no room on my shelf...), and a slightly-redundant-unless-you're-a-mammoth-completist 1989 Batmobile with armour deployed (not a fan).

Trouble is, all the regular issues after issue 2 are going for a whopping £9.99 (that's just over $16.00 - again, that's each). I can maybe justify getting a couple at that price point (and that's assuming that the line doesn't suffer the erratic quality control that I found with the Marvel/DC figurines), but any more than that, and yikes...

What in the world?  Batwing, from the DC Chess collection.

For those collecting the DC Chess Batman Set, the last piece (#32), next up, the DC Chess Justice League Set - Starts with Superman (#33) - in a 2-pk (2 for the price of 1)