McFarlane Toys: Cosmic Boy
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■ George PérezGeorge Pérez was an American comic book artist and writer, who worked primarily as a penciller. He came to prominence in the 1970s penciling Fantastic Four and The Avengers for Marvel Comics. In the 1980s, he penciled The New Teen Titans, which became one of DC Comics’ top-selling series. He penciled DC’s landmark limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, followed by relaunching Wonder Woman as both writer and penciller.
It’s no secret that since 2026, I had given up on collecting action figures. The last two figures I can remember paying $35 each was Deathstroke and Nightwing, both produced by McFarlane Toys. Those figures, as nice as they were, in my opinion, were not worth a combined total of $70. They should be priced, at the most, $20… but with the Trump tariffs, owner Todd McFarlane was forced to raise his price. Still, I’m happy with the way they turned out, and I wish McFarlane would give us a Jericho figure so I can complete that Tales of the Teen Titans #44 cover.
With the recent Amazon coupons dropping the Cosmic Boy figure to $15, I thought that was a fair price and decided on buying it before the coupon expires.
I think the main reasons why I bought Cosmic Boy was that it’s based on the Final Crisis’ Cosmic Boy (appearing on the third issue). The artwork is by George Perez, although you wouldn’t know it because McFarlane removed his signature in the art piece. The figure comes with the standard McFarlane stand, a trading card (reusing the George Perez art), three sets of hands and two magnetic affects.
If you own other McFarlane figures, they are all basically using the same “buck” and tooling. Double-jointed elbows and knees are nice for posing. Cosmic Boy’s body is on the smaller side (fewer muscles), but he still stands very tall compare to other McFarlane male figures. I think that’s one of my biggest complaints is that McFarlane’s legs are just abnormally too long and so they stand so tall.
I did notice that the McFarlane’s Fallout action figures (I own the Lucy and Steph figures (they are the same figure but with different faces and hair)) are slightly smaller than the typical McFarlane’s DC Multiverse figures.
I didn’t like the way Cosmic Boy’s eyes are printed on the head – it gives him tiny beady eyes. The head sculpt doesn’t exactly look George Perez’s Cosmic Boy… but I guess it’s close enough.
Otherwise, the figure’s pretty good. I love the articulation, and that very fine details of the Legionnaire ring on his right hand is a nice attention to details. Unfortunately, you can’t swap his Legion hands with other figures – unless they’re humanoids Legionnaires with black gloves.
With McFarlane Toys losing the DC Comics license, he’s on an escalated release schedule and churning out so many figures that fans have been asking for. McFarlane’s strategy before was to release a character with a bad costume or slightly off costume, and then a year later would re-release that same figure but with the classic costume (or correct colors). Fans of that character would end up buying the same figures twice or three times. But now with his limited time with DC, he’s just releasing the classic or fan-favorite costumes! It’s great, I just wish he had done this from the start.
