{"id":6057,"date":"2015-07-06T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T13:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/?page_id=6057"},"modified":"2024-01-04T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:04:15","slug":"mego-mystery-manpilotastronaut","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.megomuseum.com\/galleries\/mego-mystery-manpilotastronaut\/","title":{"rendered":"SkyGuy the Mego Mystery Man\/Pilot\/Astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"

SkyGuy by Schaper Toys AKA the Mego Mystery Man\/Pilot\/Astronaut<\/strong><\/p>\n

His name is SKY GUY!<\/p>\n

One of the biggest appeals of Mego collecting is the mysteries and discoveries still happening some 50 years later. The company made and sold products for different markets and distributors, causing widespread collector speculation and theories.
\nOne of the longest-running is the “Mystery Man”, who has also gone by the moniker “Myster Astronaut” for his resemblance to the Planet of the Apes Astronaut (which some conjectured the figure might be connected to somehow.)
\nThis figure began popping up in the mid to late 70s, usually in clear plastic baggies. One wise collector even wrote the date on the price tag (from Big Red’s a NYC-based pool supply store known for toy closeouts).
\nMego very clearly produced this figure, he is on a type-1 body wearing a unique jumpsuit, Action Jackson boots and Airforce helmet painted yellow (mego astronaut).<\/p>\n

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Mego Sky Guy by Schaper<\/p><\/div>\n

The head sculpted for this character is one Mego was fond of recycling, it began life as Batman for the initial run of remvoable cowl figures, Mego would famously swap this head out due to children losing the cowl but it would also be used for the Bruce Wayne Alter Ego exclusive from Wards in 1974.<\/p>\n

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Internationally, Mego would reuse the head for two more foreign distributors that same year. In Italy, he would become a popular Western comic book hero, Tex Willer<\/a>, in a deal with Baravelli. In South Africa, Mego would turn him into popular Radio star (and Oatmeal spokesperson) Jet Jungle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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When shown the figure for the first time, Mego chairman Marty Abrams remarked to us that the figure was “Something my dad [Mego founder D. David Abrams] made.” During this time, David Abrams was running the Mego operation in Hong Kong. Abrams also mentioned that Mego would manufacture for other toy makers, saying that his father oversaw the production of the diecast peanut cars sold by Aviva.<\/p>\n

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