Completely by accident, I stumbled across some mini-comics from the old Super Powers toy line last night. Each figure in the line came with a small (2.75" x 4.25") 16 page booklet with a short comic focusing on the character the toy replicated. I thought I'd scan and share the ones I found...
A few items of note...
- There are more drawings of Superman in Wonder Woman's comic than there are drawings of Wonder Woman.
- Robin's cape is colored incorrectly in his logo.
- Superman appears on the cover of Robin's comic, but not on the story inside.
- Superman is under mind-control in two of these three comics.
No writing or art credits are given for any of the comics, though I suspect they were done by an ad agency hired out by Kenner. Although some of José Luis García-López's and Dick Giordano's work was used throughout the Super Powers line, these comics don't seem to bear any of their artistic hallmarks.
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