Mego has is history with DC Comics, mainly for its long-running line of World's Greatest Super Heroes collectibles. It was in 1972 when the toy company got its boost from its stepping into the world ...

Even before superheroes proved their superpowers at the box office in the late 1970s, Marty Abrams, of Great Neck, had an entrepreneurial eureka moment that made him the father of the action figure.

Considered to be the first Superman toy, jointed wooden doll like this were made in 1939-1940 by the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company. Painted in the iconic superhero's signature colors; blue, red and ...