Diamond Select Firestar Gallery Diorama (2021)

Angelica Jones Is On Fire!

1981 was a big year for yours truly. I was five years old, a kindergarten student, and hungry to watch Saturday morning cartoons! Smurfs, Kid’s Super Power Hour With Shazam, Godzilla, Hong Kong Phooey, Tarzan, Superfriends, and more awaited me each and every sleepy Saturday morning. I would sit in front of the television with a bowl of Fruity Pebbles and watch cartoons for hours, completely enamored with them. One cartoon in particular opened my eyes to the wonderful world of Marvel Comics. That show was Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends. I was a DC kid through and through at the time, but I was also big into Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and a few other Marvel heroes as well. Seeing Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends introduced me to a number of new characters that I wasn’t aware of at the time. One of those characters was Firestar.

Angelica Jones, better known as Firestar (Fire-Star in the series) was created specifically for the Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends series after attempts to acquire rights for the Human Torch fell through and couldn’t be resolved by production time for the show. She and Iceman teamed up with Spider-Man to fight crimes while attending college together. The series ran for three seasons and produced a one-off comic issue of the same name which was also Firestar’s first comic appearance. She wouldn’t return to the page until May of 1985 when Chris Claremont would write her into Uncanny X-Men #193. John Romita, Jr. did the artwork for the book and Firestar’s costume didn’t stray at all from her television look. Sadly the character failed to, um, catch fire with a lot of comic fans so she spent a lot of time on the backburner until 1989 when she appeared in December 1989’s The Mighty Thor #411 as a founding member of the New Warriors team. Firestar has also been a member of the X-Men, the Avengers, and the Hellions over the years.

While she has never had a massive following, her supporters are loyal. I am one of those supporters. I’ve sought out figures of Firestar over the years but never really found one that I wanted to purchase. I finally stumbled across this Diamond Select Firestar Gallery Diorama statuette and I didn’t hesitate to purchase it. The figure is beautiful. She stands about ten inches tall and is captured in flight with a tail of fire coming off of her feet and a pair of fireballs emitting from her hands. The coloring is perfect, with every red, yellow, and orange detail painted to perfection. The statuette is made of PVC. Of special note is the fact that Firestar’s flames are somewhat translucent. This makes for great photographs when using a ring light.

Voiced by Kathy Garver, Firestar/Angelica Jones was one of my earliest kiddie crushes on a female character. Having this Diamond Select Gallery Diorama Statuette of the character brings back a ton of great memories. Although I’m not a huge fan of statuettes and stationary figures, I love this Firestar statuette.

Thanks for checking out my post. I told y’all that I had a special surprise this week and this was it! See you again real soon!