Comments on: Super Powers Highlight – Small Card Green Lantern

By: clevelandhags

clevelandhags — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:48:08 +0000

Just stumbled upon your blog. Love it. Green Lantern might be my favorite action figure of all time. I still have the one I had as a kid.

By: PlaidStallions

PlaidStallions — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:21:06 +0000

I occasionally work with the man who sold this exclusive to Shell. They were available in the US because Shell way over ordered, the sales rep took the excess inventory across the border and sold it to liquidators as a favour.

He tells me he told Shell not to take Batman and Superman but order more of the obscure characters because he believed those two were over exposed at retail.

By: David

David — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:47:50 +0000

Regarding the Boulder bomber, I remember my mom ordered my Supermobile from a form on Peter Pan Peanut Butter (it’s an odd thing to remember, I know) and it came in the same box as the retail. This is of course by no means something that would be standardized in any way for other offers, but whatever.

By: JuliusMarx

JuliusMarx — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:42:17 +0000

I think the only slim carded SP figure I’m missing now is Superman. I just picked them all op within the past year… mostly becasue of the renewed interest in AFi folks talking about the Super Powers line again!

By: bambam

bambam — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:06:50 +0000

As a kid, I thought the Super Powers promotion at Shell gas stations was the greatest thing ever! Shell stations were plentiful in my hometown and were the my parent’s preferred fuel provider. My Mom would buy me a figure each time I was in the car while fueling up. I already had Batman and my friends’ had the big guns, so I would pick the more obscure characters just to learn more about them: Red Tornado, Martian Manhunter, and Firestorm. I also got a Robin for my younger brother to complement my Batman. Many of the Shell stations in my neighbourhood only had a small booth for the clerk. It only had enough room for the clerk to sit and a cash register, so a box of Super Powers figs would be stored underneath the register. None of the figs I got had their cards punched.. but I tore those figures out and played with them to death.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:45:38 +0000

I have to tell you that these were available at a Big Lots in San Jose, CA in the late 80′s. I bought a Firestorm and a Robin at something like $3 a pop. They are sitting on my desk as I write this. So cool.