I was very sad to hear about the passing of Eddie Wires earlier this week. The staff of the Fwoosh put together a small article with our remembrances of Eddie. Some of us had just seen him a few weeks back, during San Diego Comic-Con. Eddie – we’ll miss you.
If you’re an action figure fan, chances are you’ve got a toy on your shelf that Eddie Wires helped create. Some of you probably have shelves full of toys Eddie had a hand in. After Eddie was done painting a prototype, that figure was the best it would ever look and the best it would ever be. That’s because no factory production process could ever hope to match what he created by hand.
I wasn’t lucky enough to spend a lot of time with Eddie, but it seemed to me that he had the same effect on the people around him as he did on the toys he created – life was better when he was there. Always friendly, always smiling, and it was certainly infectious.
If you look through his body of work (see his online portfolio or his Facebook albums), like I do from time to time, you’ll be reminded of what might have been in the world of toys. With him gone, I’ll ask myself that every time I see a painted prototype, and every time I’m outside on the balcony at Jolt’n Joes.
Chemist Ted Sallis was assigned to “Project Gladiator”, an experiment aimed at recreating the lost “super-soldier” serum that had spawned Captain America during World War II. Sallis attempted to modify the “super-soldier” serum with another serum, one that had historically transformed people into monsters and got close to success. But he was betrayed by his wife, Ellen. To guarantee that the secret would not fall into the wrong hands, Sallis injected himself with the only existing sample of his modified Super Soldier serum, and fled into the nearby swamp. Sallis should have died, but over the course of several hours, mystical forces combined with chemical science to transform him into the monstrous, misshapen creature who would be dubbed the Man-Thing.
This is the fourth and final part of Akatsuki’s Marvel Legends Iron Man Retrospective, the finale to our Iron Mania week. Part 4 covers the Iron Man figures produced by Hasbro after they took over the Marvel Legends line. It includes the Ultimate Iron Man from HML Series 1 through the Stealth Iron Man from the ML 2-Packs.
Huge thanks to Akatsuki for putting together a great look at the Marvel Legends Iron Man figures!
This is the third part of Akatsuki’s Marvel Legends Iron Man Retrospective, the finale to our Iron Mania week. Part 3 covers the Modular Armor Iron Man from the ML Fearsome Foes 2-packs through the Thorbuster Iron Man from ML 15. We’ll wrap up tomorrow with the final installment.
This is the second part of Akatsuki’s Marvel Legends Iron Man Retrospective, the finale to our Iron Mania week. Part 2 covers the Modern Armor Iron Man from ML8 through the First Appearance Iron Men in ML 14.
Surely nothing can go wrong when Iron Man hosts the Iron Mania game show at Stark Expo 2010
The Stark Expo 2010 festivities continue with the star-studded Iron Mania game show, hosted by Iron Man himself.
Joined by celebrity contestants Brian Michael Bendis, MC Chris and Claudio Sanchez from Coheed & Cambria, Marvel super heroes Nick Fury, War Machine, Thor and Hulk take part in a charity edition of Iron Mania. Surely nothing can go wrong!
Watch Marvel Super Heroes: What The–?! Ep. 12 “Iron Mania 2″ now!
To cap off our Iron Mania week, we’ve got a retrospective on the Iron Man action figures that have appeared in the classic Marvel Legends line, by Toy Biz and Hasbro. Who better to put this together than Akatsuki, Platoon Leader of the Fwoosh’s Armored Division?
There’s been so many Marvel Legends Iron Men over the years, we had to break up Akat’s retrospective into multiple parts. Here’s part one, covering the original ML 1 Iron Men through the ML 7′s Silver Centurion.
We may be running an Iron Mania week here at AFP, but at Marvel, the entire month of May is devoted to Iron Man.
We’re celebrating the May 7 (April 28 internationally) release of “Iron Man 2″ with Iron Man Month 2010! Get ready for a monthlong mega mix of all things Shellhead right here on Marvel.com!
For this week’s Take 10, Marvel highlights ten of their favorite Iron Man action figures of all time.
Take 10: Iron Man Action Figures
We run down 10 of our favorite Iron Man toys from throughout the ages
Every week, a secret cabal of Marvel staffers gathers to discuss the best of the best when it comes to the House of Ideas.
At some point late tonight or tomorrow, Casimir at Raving Toy Maniac is going to publish the final day of CustomCon 25, and my meager entry, called Dangerous Deities, will get posted. I promised Casimir that I would have this recipe page up by the time that came around, but since I’m not quite sure when he’ll push the button, this is going up at Midnight CST.
To be completely honest, I wasn’t even going to bring my camera to WonderCon at first. My wife and I were only going to be able to go for a few hours one afternoon, and although WonderCon is organized by the same folks who handle San Diego Comic-Con, it doesn’t attract the the toy manufacturers like SDCC does. As we were getting ready to walk out the door, I thought, why not?
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