(They're) Sexy + Seventeen - Peg People Wave 17!

 

Remember that awesome Marvel line from Hasbro where they did every Spider-Man character ever? OF COURSE YOU DON'T! Because Hasbro sucks!

G.I. Jigsaw on the other hand, he knows how to produce a toy line, and see it through to completion! His fantastic series of Peg People keep coming, and each one add a whole new layer of depth to the line.

The Inhumans join the fray with their team leader, Black Bolt! He showed up from time to time in Marvel-Team Up, which is really the extent of what I know about the character.

Another Marvel Team-Up alum was Falcon. Though he typically didn't stray far from the pages of Captain America, he would periodically show up to fight side by side with Spider-Man.

Though he was usually reserved as a nemesis to the Fantastic Four, Kang did appear hear and there to harass Spider-Man.

The pages of Spider-Man would always get weird when Ghost Rider was around. His tactics are very much the polar opposite of how Peter Parker would handle a bad guy, and ultimately this left our hero deep in thought as he came to terms with what had happened at the end.

It was a given that Deadpool was going to show up in the pile of pegs. Though, ironically, he initially wasn't on the checklist.

If you've noticed a trend here, the majority of this wave consists of Marvel Team-Up related characters. Brother Voodoo is yet another. I don't believe this character ever got his own series. Instead, he was relegated to the pages of the fitting title, Strange Tales.

Based on the Greek God, Hercules, Marvel's version was a mainstay in the pages of the Avengers, being a member of the team for quite some time. If I told you he appeared in Marvel Team-Up with Spider-man, would you be shocked?

One of, if not the last Avengers members on the checklist is Hawkeye. He kind of got relegate to page four, with the rest of them (except Hercules) being on page three.

Blah, blah, blah, Marvel Team-Up, the Cat, AKA Hellcat. She's one of the oldest Marvel characters, having appeared back in the companies hay days as Timely Comics.

The second Inhumans team member to join the bunch is Medussa. When she appeared in...Marvel Team-Up, she typically started things off on a bad foot with Spider-Man. Either fighting him, or fleeing somewhere, which ended up in a fight.

Crystal, our next Inhumans team member, would typically only appear with Spider-Man when the team as a whole were around. I don't recall any times she had any solo adventures with the web swinger.

The Inhumans kept coming with Triton, and...

...Gorgon. Much like Crystal, these two typically only showed up in Marvel Team-Up when the rest of the squad was appearing.

Damion, aka Son of Satan, not only had his own book series, but would occasionally show up to make things in the Spider-Verse supernatural. These usually weren't among my favorites to read. I'm not a big fan of the occult.

The we jump back to the Inhumans for Karnac (the Shatterer)...

...and, Maximus the Mad.

The wave rounds out (sort of) with Nighthawk. Depending on what era of Marvel you're reading dictates which version of the character you get. Not only in identity, but whether he's a villain or hero. This version happens to be Kyle Richmond, member of the Defenders.

I said "sort of" above because the mystery figure package returned this round. This time with two new figures inside!

I wanted to say who this was when I saw the character holding up the card, but the exposed brain at the top of his head kept throwing me off. As did the costume. Turns out, that's not an exposed brain, and I should have gone with my gut. What we have here is Johnny Carson's alter ego, Carnac the Magnificent.

George also threw in a version of Wade Wilson from X-Men Origins: Wolverine...Terrible movie. For now, Wade's on the Mystery Figure checklist, but I may change that when (if...when) I have an expanded checklist.

Speaking of which, let's roll that beautiful bean footage that is the checklist so far. Can you believe George has finished three full pages, and a third of the way through a fourth? Amazing! Man is he going to hate me when he sees the new list with the additional 700.

I'm moving next weekend, so I don't know if George will be dropping off anymore surprise packages before then. Gosh, now that I think of it, it's not going to be so easy for us to coordinate these moving forward. Man, that's kind of a bummer to realize.

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