Set your nostalgia rays to the ’80s.
Some toy lines actually ended up as even better comic book series.
Comic book icons and heroes have been appearing on toy shelves since the days of Captain Action and Mego.
Remco was wowed by the world Marvel had created and produced one line of figures in 1982.
Remco produced a bunch of good Crystal Warriors and an array of evil Magma people.
Strange, Nightcrawler (fromX-Men), and Alpha Flight.
Shogun Warriors
Is there anything cooler than giant Mechs?
How about giant Mechs based on an ultra-popular Japanese toy line stomping around the Marvel Universe?
For two years, Marvel fans got to experienceShogun Warriorsas a legitimate part of the Marvel Universe proper.
Shogun Warriorswas a Mattel property that united a bunch of robot toys from Japan under the same banner.
DC only published five He-Man stories in the 80s but they established the foundation for everything that would follow.
At Mantlos request, then Marvel got theMicronautslicense from Mego and the rest is history.
LikeShogun WarriorsandTransformers,Micronautswere Japanese toys from a number of different toy lines joined together under one branding umbrella.
Despite its simple premise,Micronautsremains one of the best executed comics of its day.
Yes, the same writer who breathed fresh life intoMicronauts, wielded the same world building magic withRom.
Transformers
Transformersis one of those toy properties that lives in perfect symbiosis with the world of comics.
Dreamwave and IDW continue the legacy in many different forms and iterations feeding multiple generations of Transformers fanatics.
Joe: A Real America Hero
There has seemingly always been a comic called G.I.
Joe on the stands in one form or another even before anyone heard the term Kung Fu Grip.
But it was in 1982 that Marvel began publishing a comic series based on Hasbros new line ofG.I.
Joetoys that the entire comic industry changed.
The Marvel Comics series allowed these characters to grow far beyond their static plastic origins.
At the time, ninjas like Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow became as popular as Wolverine and Spider-Man.
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