Above:
My Sears blonde Batgirl doll dressed as
Barbara Gordon, just as she came when Sears sold her. She has the
original black belt and she came with and the red shoes just like the
Ideal Wonder Woman doll's shoes. Batgirl borrowed one of Wonder Woman's
red shoes for this pic as I still need one red heel for her so if you
have one please for sale let me know. The box shown is a
repro done by
Raymond Flores who owns an original Sears-exclusive box for the Ideal
blonde Super Queen Comic Heroine doll. The Batgirl suit in the box is
original and in the box you see the red marker you would use to color
her hair red. I put a plastic Cher Mego display to show the
Batgirl
outfit off in the box as Sears sold this doll dressed as Barbara Gordon
with the Batgirl outfit loose inside the box.
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to see how Batgirl differs from Ideal's Misty doll. |
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I need the original
gloves, belt, and cape for my blonde Batgirl. If you have them for sale
please contact
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Ideal
made a blonde Batgirl Comic Heroine Super Queen doll which was an
exclusive for Sears department stores. I'm sure it had a lot to do
with the Batman TV series.
This doll is not based on the tv series doll but they did make a couple
of changes for the exclusive Super Queen doll. First she is a blonde
with center-parted hair and she came with a dress that looks like the
dresses we see Yvonne Craig wear on the show as her alter ego Barbara
Gordon. The box for the exclusive
Sears doll is totally different from the regular marketed one (see above photo). Batgirl and Supergirl were
the only dolls of this series
featured in the Sears catalogs. Both were
advertised saying they included halter dresses, but as
always, items due to change during
production. These were replaced with two different outfits.
Some
Batgirls came with Tammy's Mom outfits, and both also came in a multi-striped halter dress and red
high heel shoes (the same as Wonder
Woman and Samantha, see below). Thanks to Ray
Flores for the information on the
Sears alter ego fashions.
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Click
on the thumbnail left to view an enlargement of the 1967 Sears
Christmas catalog section of this website. Thanks
to James on the Captain Action list on
Yahoo for providing it. |
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Click
on the thumbnail left to view an enlargement of the halter dress that
was advertised to have been included with the Batgirl and Supergirl
dolls.I have never seen this dress on a doll so I don't
know how it looks and am not sure how the straps goes on the doll. The
pics are thanks to Lorri and Ray. |
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Click
on the thumbnail left to view an enlargement. Here
are the colored markers
that were sold with the Glamour Misty Miss Clairol dolls and a make-up
pencil as well, to give you an idea of what came before. The red marker
for Batgirl's hair was found as a Sears Super Queen accessory. Seems
like Ideal re-used a lot of their Tammy doll and Misty doll items with
the Super Queens dolls. It may have been that Ideal
just threw in their left over Misty doll markers from their Miss
Clairol sets in with the blonde Batgirl doll so you could give her red
hair just like the Batgirl played by Yvonne Craig on the original
Batman TV series, which was a big hit at the time these dolls were
being produced.
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Click
on the thumbnail left to view an enlargement of a very rare example of
a mint in box/complete blonde Batgirl. This recently sold on
ebay for almost $7,000.00! The seller has graciously allowed me to use
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Sears Blonde Super Queen doll make-up and face up
close. She 
Dress
that came with Sears exclusive blonde
She
came with red shoes just like the Ideal Wonder Woman
Here is the red marker that was originally sold with Glamour Misty
