Comments on: Brightest Day, Blank Slate Era, Firehawk’s lineage, and Charred Action Figures

By: Mark Baker-Wright

Mark Baker-Wright — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:37:28 +0000

I’ve only read that issue of Brightest Day the once, and noted that brief image of a two-armed Alvin in the distance. However, I was willing to chalk that up to “less detailed than it should have been ” art rather than a mistake, recognizing that Alvin had taken to using a prosthetic by the last we’d seen of him.

By: rob!

rob! — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:50:32 +0000

If that Firestorm figure sells for $600 or whatever, then I’m buying a lighter and setting my JLU collection ablaze.

By: James

James — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:08:23 +0000

He did use a prosthesis at times too, right?

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:50:22 +0000

I first noticed that burnt figure back in 2008 (back then it was only $300), it pops up on ebay from time to time. No idea why. The sad thing is, I’d probably buy it if it was $20, purely for the amusement of having a graded burnt figure.

By: Jason Todd

Jason Todd — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:35:08 +0000

600 Dollars?! Lmao man, that’s insane. I don’t know what to say about that… anyway, I didn’t know about Jason’s dad missing a hand but that sounds like a big screw up on their part. I hope they just admit they made a mistake instead of something like “The White Light regrew his hand” just because the artist probably made a mistake.

By: Acrobatic Flea

Acrobatic Flea — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:59:53 +0000

Gotta love the fact that the eBay merchant is making a “selling point” of the fact that the figure is graded as “poor” and that somehow INCREASES its value?

His sales patter borders on the slightly delusional (or tongue-in-cheek):

“The figure was doused with lighter fluid and lit on fire back in the 80’s. For a few moments, this toy was the most perfect recreation of Firestorm in Action Figure form. Finding such a figure in this exact condition is rarer than finding one in a AFA 60. There is only one AFA 20 Firestorm graded in the world! Granted you can take any $15 Firestorm and make him into a AFA 20 easily. Because it is so easy to reproduce the condition of this toy, I have priced it as so….”

But it’s quite chucklesome and fair play to him if some mug ponies up the money, then he’ll be the one laughing 😀