This is making the rounds on social media-- Crazy Toys figure slated for release Q1 2026-- Kit has it for pre-order over on his onesixthkit site-- you can only find it if you're signed in and its listed as "Cartoon Toys CT01 1/6 Scale First Appearance"
I like a lot about it-- I'm crazy critical of the 1939 version of Bat Man-- the cowl is pretty close to what I think it should look like in 3D-- the logo is too big but the gloves are nicely done and the inside of the cape is blue as it should be.
I like that it has dual shoulder holsters keeping his pulp roots and that unlike the ridiculous McFarlane Year Two figure this holster actually is in the correct position (and I should know I have several shoulder holsters) and it comes with a wrench-- which was the first weapon the character used in Detective Comics #27.
Is it perfect? Nope. But it's fun. Pre-orders close Aug 27 2025
The long face is a strange one-- it looks a lot like when cartoonist Tony Millionaire did a story about the character;
I'm a huge fan of the pulps, which is why this version of Bat Man works for me.
I think the long chin is so he can put his head down and look sinister.
Not perfect but this is a tough figure to nail down.
Yep- this version has definitely had a few more steaks than Bob Kane's early Batman (or whoever was actually drawing the strip).
Wayback machine story-- in the mid eighties I was having an amazing Ruben at a Deli in New York City with then Batman editor Denny O'Neil and a few other folks from editorial in Midtown-- this was just about the time they came up with the dial in promotion to save or kill Robin. If memory serves they had the call in number set-- they'd make like 10c a call and they were trying to decide what the vote would be.
The Batman Movie had been announced in 1980-- complete with a bat signal flashing on the side of the Empire State Building but at that point the development of it had stalled. WB couldn't decide how to handle the movie, the camps were divided at making it a comedy with Bill Murray or a drama with a "serious" actor. I asked Denny who HE would cast as Batman if it was up to him.
Without missing a beat, or a bite-- he chimed in "Roy Scheider."
The Jaws guy?
"Ever see him in Marathon Man? Perfect Bruce Wayne and he's got the right build for Batman-- who should be built like Bruce Lee."
I couldn't see Scheider as Bruce Wayne at all.
I went back to my apartment and watched Marathon Man again-- and sure enough I agreed with Denny.
Roy Scheider was a good actor, to be certain. I’m sure he would’ve done well with the character.
My issue would be the random associations I get when I see people. For example, to me, Tom Hardy looks like he has “beer-belcher breath.” Scheider had, what I might call, a “chain-smoker’s face” (a sort of thin-skinned, tanned-leather look). But, given that Bruce Wayne was a smoker throughout much of the Batman comics, that might have worked.
I'm not sure it would have worked, but I get what he was saying.
Scheider did have that chain smoker look-- but he also looked like he could take a punch-- he wouldn't have needed the fake muscles that Keaton relied on.
