#Galaxy fighters checklist series

Magneto – Comes with a laser pistol weapon.

Kang the Conqueror – Comes with a laser pistol weapon.

However, Iron Man's lenticular 'secret identity' insert depicted Tony Stark instead. The character piloting the Iron Man suit in the mini-series and the short biography on the back of the packaging was listed as James 'Rhodey' Rhodes.

Iron Man (James 'Rhodey' Rhodes) – Comes with a laser pistol weapon.

The tentacles were fragile and broke off easily, so an unpackaged figure with intact tentacles is rare.

Doctor Octopus – Comes with Doc Ock's signature silver plastic tentacles.

The rifle fit in a socket in the back of the torso and the pistol could be attached to a green plastic holder on Doom's upper right leg.

Doctor Doom – Comes with both a laser pistol and a laser rifle.

His Secret Shield 'secret identity' insert showed Captain America's face over the same concentric red, white, and blue-circle-inset-with-a-white-star ring pattern.

Captain America – Captain America only came with a Secret Shield accessory rather than his iconic shield.

#Galaxy fighters checklist series

The back of the packaging card had a character illustration and biography, a 4-panel comic of the character in action, and pictures of all eight Series 1 figures. There was also a packet of four lenticular 'secret message' cartoon inserts that came with each character that fit in the Secret Shield. The lenticular 'secret identity' image was viewable through a clear plastic window in the top cover of the shield and shifted between showing either the character's costumed or secret identities. Heroes carried circular red shields and villains carried square gray shields, which were supposed to represent a sort of video communicator. They each came with a large plastic 'Secret Shield' accessory that held a lenticular image. The back of the packaging card came with a character illustration and biography, a short 4-panel comic, and a depiction of available figures in the series. They came packaged in a bubble-card pack. The line included two series of action figures, along with vehicles and playsets, as well as a third series of figures released outside North America.įigures were 4 + 1⁄ 2 inches (110 mm) tall. The toy line featured several vehicles, as well as figures in the later series, that never featured in the mini-series. In fact, while dozens of characters were involved in the comic miniseries, Mattel's initial Secret Wars series only included eight characters: four heroes (Spider-Man, Iron Man, Captain America and Wolverine) and four villains (Doctor Doom, Doctor Octopus, Kang the Conqueror and Magneto). None of the three female characters were produced as part of the toy line.

Mattel also requested new female characters, and Marvel introduced two villains, Titania and Volcana, as well as a new version of Spider-Woman, Julia Carpenter. The 'alien costume' was revealed in The Amazing Spider-Man to be a living creature, who separated from Spider-Man to become a new character, Venom.Īt Mattel's request, Marvel designed updated, 'high-tech' costumes for Iron Man and Doctor Doom. Shooter introduced the idea of a new, black costume for Spider-Man, which was not intended to last for long, but Mattel was very enthusiastic, because it allowed them to sell two versions of the same toy. Some of Mattel's choices for the toy line impacted the look and direction of Marvel's superhero characters. Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter came up with the concept for a year-long twelve-issue crossover called Secret Wars, in which Marvel's most popular heroes and villains would be plucked out of their daily lives to a distant galaxy, where they would be given alien weapons and technology and forced to fight each other. Mattel's request was that the line would be supported with an event comic book that included the words 'secret' and 'wars', which Mattel's market research found worked particularly well with children in focus groups. Mattel, concerned about losing the DC account to Kenner, made a similar deal with Marvel. The line was a reaction to DC Comics' 1984 deal with Kenner Products for the Super Powers Collection. Secret Wars was a 1984-1985 line of action figures and playsets, launched as a tie-in between Marvel Comics and the Mattel toy company.