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News: Nightwing Action Figure Review
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I've always thought that Nightwing's costume is one of my favorite Pérez design. It's very Seventies, if you know what I mean.
FIRST APPEARANCE SERIES #3: NIGHTWING (Jun 2005)
The articulation is pretty poor (there's only 8 points), and posing Nightwing is pretty limited. It's still better than some of the earlier DC Direct toys, which functioned more like plastic statues that you could move the arms and legs.
The sculpt of Dick Grayson's head looks too cheerful. To me, Nightwing is similiar to Batman, in which the character is more serious.
I think $14.99 is too much to be asking for this toy, but I guess they probably don't produce too many of these figures and sold almost exclusively through comic book stores/Diamond Distribution. $14.99 is a pretty common price for specialty action figures, I guess.
The best part of this toy is that it came with a tiny reproduction of TALES OF THE TEEN TITANS #44 (Jul 1984)! It barely qualifies as readable as the word balloons are incredibly small (and you thought reading Dark Horse's Lone Wolf and Cub was bad!)
What's interesting is that the reprint does not contain any writing or art credit (Update: Their credits are on the front cover.). I wonder if George or Marv is getting any money out of this ?
