What Was Your First Marvel Figure?

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I thought it might be fun to discuss what our first Marvel figure was. For me, it was this super bendy Spider-Man figure I received from my uncle; the man also got me into Marvel Comics, and even Marvel Legends themselves, but it all started with this bendy 1990 Spidey figure.
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At the time, thanks to the Burton movies and BTAS, I was a pretty huge Batman fan (I still am), and my uncle said he needed more variety in what he could get me for holidays and my birthday. Little did he know that he was starting me on a long and Marvelous road...

What about you guys?
 
My first marvel figure was the Talking Wolverine figure from toy biz that came with the little backpack that would shout 3 different phrases


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Based solely on his appearances in the early days of the X-Men the Animated series.

My second was; it was the only figure to unseat my Kenner Keaton 89 Batman figure as my favorite:

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I don't think Gambit was my third, I think it was the 80s looking Sabretooth with the flipping claw mark damage abs when punched. But I went on a pilgrimage to many TRU's til I finally found Gambit.

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I couldn't tell you which one, but I think it was a Secret Wars figure. Pretty good chance my folks bought me two or three at once so guessing Spidey, Cap, and/or Iron Man. I know I didn't even know who Wolverine Was but they got me one and I was hooked for life.

Although I also had what was basically a doll version of Spider-Man with a hollow forearm that you could fill with web fluid, squeeze, and shoot, which might be the most accidentally filthy toy ever invented.
 
I go back to the late 70s Mego era. You kids with your 47 points of articulation. We had 5poa figures with inappropriately pre-posed right arms.
These are my childhood Mego Pocket Heroes with a Marx Daredevil from '67. DD is from before my time, not sure how I got him. He was also released in multiple colors. Hulk's purple painted pants are nice and sticky.
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I didn't have any Secret Wars ones. I know I had some Slug Spider-Man toy as a kid, but I couldn't tell u much about it.

The first I REMEMBER was the Toy Biz 5" Marvel Superheroes first wave. Iron Man with the armor that comes off, Spider-Man who shot a web from his arm, Thor, Venom and Green Goblin. There was a Punisher too, but i didnt get him.
 
I didn't have any secret wars figures as a kid but I had a decent amount out Toybiz X Men. I don't remember which was my first. It could have been Wolverine II but it also could have been Iceman. Good stuff.
 
I had the mid-70s Mego Spider-Man and Hulk, so round about that time. Ironically, never had Mego Thor. Didn't seem to ever come to my area, or sold out.
 
I received the Toy Biz Colossus and Stryfe on the same day as gifts. I had started getting into Marvel and X-Men earlier, but my neighbor had a bunch of those Marvel Super Heroes figures so I could just play with his. The combination of getting my hands on some comics and the premiere of X-Men on Fox was enough to get me to go in on the toys as well, cutting out TMNT, Batman, and others.
 
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