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DC Collectibles Are Thieves and Rogues At San Diego Comic-Con

By Jeremy Konrad

One of the companies that as of late rising the ranks again in the collectible market would be DC Comics in house company DC Collectibles. While still suffering from some late shipping product (I'm looking at you Batman Animated Series figures), they have really stepped up their game alongside DC Comics proper to bring quality figures and statues to the masses with better sculpting and more articulation than ever before.

The panel started minus one Jim Lee, who was running a bit behind. Jason Inman from DC All Access welcomed us and introduced the rest of the panel.

They immediately ran an interesting contest where they named off the descriptions for four toys, one of which was real. Bleeding Cool's own Will Romine correctly guessed and won a Etrigan figure. From there they started the reveals.

Starting out with the Batman Black and White statue line, they revealed a stunning array of statues modeled after the art of Rafael Albuquerque, Jason Fabok, a sweet Lee Bermejo Harley Quinn, and a Batman based on artist Kim Jung Gi, which may be one of the more detailed statues they have ever done.

The panel then commented on this line being around for 10 years and that they are working on getting more characters into the line.

It was then a late-arriving Jim Lee joined the panel to great applause. The next line of statues shown was a new line of Harley Quinn statues in the same vein as the Batman B&W ones. Titled Red, White, and Black, the first one is based on Harley from Jim's Hush run with Jeph Loeb.

Suicide Squad dominated the talk after that, with the already announced and shown off statues for each of the members of the Squad shown.

Followed by a reveal of a killer looking Joker/Harley statue from the movie that is almost an homage to the famous Alex Ross cover we all know.

Releasing on Valentine's Day, it really is a great piece.

Following that Jason posted an interesting to say the least question to the panel: what collectible did you always covet but never get? The answers varied from board games to Lego, but Jim Lee had one of the more interesting answers: he used to shoplift GI Joes and their mini weapons from stores when he was younger. It was quite the revelation. Marguerite Bennett (writer of the DC Bombshells comic) admitted to playing with her brothers Millennium Falcon and making up crazy stories about Luke Skywalker flying off into the sunset with My Little Pony. At this point I was hoping for more stories like this, but the reveals continued.

For DC Icons statue line, they showed off the already announced Andy Kubert Batman from DK3, and a Bruce Timm Harley Quinn, but had the first reveal of a Francis Manapul styled Flash, and an awesome Starfire by Amanda Conner based on her covers for the now gone comic.

Personally this one was most exciting because I have a particular fondness for that book, so I am excited that they are not sweeping it under the rug now that it is gone.

Moving on to DC Bombshells, we got looks at statues for Bumblebee, Raven, Kitana, The Flash, Aquaman; becoming the first male entry into the line, and the gorgeous Halloween Batgirl.

Bennet herself said after seeing this one she went back and wrote a whole new origin for Babs to fit the look of the statue. That story will be told in the DC Bombshells Annual later this year.

She became even more excited when they showed off the four new Bombshells action figures, which she didn't know we're a thing.

DC TV is getting new figures this year, including Firestorm, Atom, Hawkgirl, Zoom, Vixen, Supergirl, Martian Manhunter, and John Constantine.

They were particularly excited about John coming to the line, actor Matt Ryan visited their office and were so taken with him that they were thrilled when he appeared on Arrow so they could fit him into the line.

After some banter about the TV shows, they turned the focus to the super hot Icons line of figures. Finally DC is giving us figures with the articulation we craved and the characters we want. A plethora of figures were shown:

Darkseid w/Grail,

Batgirl w/her motorcycle,

Deadshot, Nightwing, Shazam, Sinestro, Catwoman, Etrigan,

and a 7 figure pack with the Justice League in their Rebirth costumes.

A personal highlight is the classic Blue Beetle and Booster Gold that are even going to come with speech bubbles.

All the icons figures will come with a ton of pack ins to make them really worth the money, including constructs for Sinestro.

Wrapping up, they took a look at the delay-plagued Batman Animated Series line. While great figures, the production problems with them and the late shipping have caused a great deal of consternation in the collecting community. None of that was addressed during the panel, with them choosing to focus on new figures like later in the series looks for Riddler and Catwoman, and a box set that is clever in concept Batman that will come with 6 different facial expressions and two molded capes.

The highlight was a reveal of a Superman and Lois Lane two pack.

While very exciting reveals, hopefully they can get the figures into our hands sooner rather than later.

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