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Robin figure from “Super Powers” collection includes the following accessories:
The figure of Robin is part of the first wave of figurines in the collection of the Super Powers produced by the toy company KENNER between 1984-1986.
Being a figure of the first wave, this was reissued in later years, however, in its first edition with the cardboard “12-back” is the most sought after among collectors, this carton contains the image on the back of the first twelve figures in the collection.
As with the rest of the figures in the line of the Super Powers, the figure of Robin comes with an “Action-feature“. Squeezing the legs, the figure’s right arm moves simulating a karate chop.
Robin is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was originally created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson, to serve as a junior counterpart and sidekick to the superhero Batman.
The first incarnation of the character, Dick Grayson, debuted in Detective Comics #38 (April 1940). Conceived as a way to attract younger readers, Robin received an overwhelmingly positive critical reception, doubling the sales of the Batman.
He made regular appearances in comic strips related to Batman and other publications of DC Comics from the 1940s to the early 1980s, until the character dropped the identity of Robin and became the independent superhero Nightwing.
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