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McFarlane DC Multiverse Platinum Edition figures of Effigy, The Question, and Shining Knight

  • Writer: Mephitsu
    Mephitsu
  • Oct 4, 2024
  • 3 min read

McFarlane has announced three new DC Multiverse Platinum Edition 'Chase' releases. Unlike the usual Chase variants short-packed into cases, these are three new figures that will frustrate collectors.



The trio includes Effigy from Green Lantern, DC Classics release of The Question, and Shining Knight from Seven Soldiers of Victory. You can enter an EQL run fair draw on the McFarlane website for a chance to purchase each of these.


These are now added to our extensive McFarlane Collector Database



Disgruntled loser Martin Van Wyck was abducted by the alien Controllers and given fire-based powers before being deemed a “failed experiment” and sent back to Earth. When using his powers, Van Wyck transformed into a white-skinned, flame-headed being and took the name Effigy. With no other ambitions, he wreaked havoc, setting fire to the Hollywood sign. After a battle with Green Lantern, he was reclaimed by the Controllers. Effigy later returned to Earth, where he fell for Killer Frost, but when she was buried in an avalanche, he callously abandoned her. The villain then served in the Society and Libra’s Secret Society of Super-Villains and was briefly exiled to the planet of Salvation. Effigy suffered a gruesome death during Final Crisis, when The Spectre burned him alive in a lantern.



When Crisis on Infinite Earths first reshaped continuity, The Question migrated to Earth from another reality. His career ended when he died from cancer, but he ensured there would always be answers by training Gotham City detective Renee Montoya to become a new Question. Following Flashpoint, The Question was reimagined as a mystic enigma. Eons ago—with Pandora and the Phantom Stranger—he faced the Council of Eternity to answer for his sins. Defiant and unrepentant, his punishment was having his identity and visage magically erased. In modern times, he sought Pandora’s Box, hoping to answer The Question of his identity. He united with the Phantom Stranger and Pandora as the Trinity of Sin, but eventually betrayed them. After this, he vanished, no one knows where.



The gender-fluid, immortal knight Ystin has also been known as Ystina, Sir Justin, and the Shining Knight, and was present at Merlin’s rebirth in Avalon as Adam One. As one of the Demon Knights—ancestors of Stormwatch—Ystina battled alien and demonic threats. Ystina was granted immortality after a sip from the Holy Grail during the fall of Camelot, but was cursed with an unquenchable desire to drink from the Grail again. Ystin rode the winged horse Vanguard, fighting alongside such Demon Knights as Madame Xanadu and Jason Blood. He also wielded the sword known as Caliburn or Excalibur, marking him a champion of Camelot. Ystina fought with the Demon Knights against the vampire Cain and was bitten, fulfilling his vision of one day becoming undead.



 

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