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But I agree!!!
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I still need to buy myself the Wolverine #17 tumbler.
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I have the tumbler with Wolverine #17 and the the clip art from UX-M #115 where Wolverine is leaping at Sauron.

I've seen the Nightcrawler and Storm, and online I've seen Angel and a Colossus. ALL clip art from John Byrne's run on Uncanny X-Men.

(You ain't being erased JB)
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(You ain't being erased JB)

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Find my name on any of those!

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According to a catalog I just received, DC is releasing a Batman 75th Anniversary figure set. Four figures, tin box. The representatives of Batman's 75 years are a "first appearance" figure, a "New Frontier" figure, a "Hush" figure and an "Arkham Asylum" figure.

So that's roughly the first fifty years ignored!

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Oh, and the same catalog has a Darth Vader TOASTER. Top of Big Daddy's helmet comes off, in go two slices of bread. The STAR WARS logo is branded onto the slices as they are taken to -- it says! -- the dark side!
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The representatives of Batman's 75 years are a "first appearance" figure, a "New Frontier" figure, a "Hush" figure and an "Arkham Asylum" figure.

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Sounds like all reissues, then, from the days of DC Direct.

You'd think they'd include the "New Look" figure from several years ago. That one was quite good.
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There are currently 2 sets of Batman figures that collect and reissue some of the DC Direct figures from over the years.
Sadly, DC Direct had a big problem with filling in some of the gaps in Batman's history,  so even if they reissued every Batman they made, you would still have noticeable gapes (like no Neal Adams Batman, or Aparo, or a good Sprang...).

The second set has a SuperFriends Batman (70's but not comics) Dark Knight Batman (80's but a stand-alone version), Alex Ross Batman, and a current Batman.

DC Direct did do a nice Infantino "New Look" Batman that they also try to swap a Dick Sprang head on and claim it as a Silver Age figure (to less success). 
Sadly, Dc Direct didn't have much success getting fans a good 70's or 80's Batman. They tried with a Crisis series Batman, but it was pretty bad. They wold also put the Bronze Age color deco on the Jim Lee figure, which of course looked wrong.

There is a nice Kevin Maguire Batman...
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Dave -- thanks for jogging my memory. I still don't understand why DC Direct never put out an early '70s (Adams or Aparo) Batman figure.

They did put out a Silver Age Superman figure which was supposed to look like Curt Swan's Superman, but I didn't think it was very convincing.
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Picked up the "Bombshell" version of Hawkgirl. No room for the rather large base, so. . .

She's not as big as she looks here. Only about ten inches toe to top. The pegs for holding her on her base are a bit of a distraction. I may paint them black. For some reason, at least to my eyes, that makes such things less noticeable.

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They did put out a Silver Age Superman figure which was supposed to look like Curt Swan's Superman, but I didn't think it was very convincing.

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As some of you already know, I stopped them putting out a "John Byrne" Superman figure that was an Alex Ross body with a God-knows-who head (it looked more like Erik Larsen's work than mine!).

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I bought that Superman a couple years ago directly because it was supposedly the John Byrne Superman.
(What can I say? I'm a JB fanatic. I make NO apologies!)
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