News Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:49:29 CST Vu

George Brewer of DC Direct
By Hervé St-Louis
Jan 13, 2007 - 1:00:46 AM

This is the second interview the Comic Bin has conducted with Georg Brewer, the executive responsible for DC Direct, the merchandizing branch of comic book publisher DC Comics.

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CRISIS ACTION FIGURE SERIES 3: BATMAN (Dec 2006)

CBB: The sculpt of the Crisis Batman seems to be more similar to artist Jim Aparo's rendition than George Perez. Some collectors even claim that it is an unreleased product from the Knightfall action figure series. Any truth in that?
Brewer: The figure was never part of the Knight Fall line. I do agree with the general assessment of the look for the figure. That style of Batman figure has often been requested, and in discussion we felt that a true Perez style figure would close to some we had already produced. We thought this was an opportunity, under the Crisis banner, to do a Batman more fans would respond to. Obviously coupled with the size problem this did not work as well as we would have liked, though in general people do like the approach.