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World’s Greatest Super Pirates – 1974

The World’s Greatest Super Pirates line was released in 1974, and featured four figures, based on actual historic pirates and fictional ones as well. Included were historic pirates, Blackbeard and Jean Lafitte, along with a couple of fictional ones, Long John Silver and Captain Patch. Captain Patch was more of a general pirate character. There were no accessories created for the Super Pirates line. 

For more information about Mego’s Super Pirates line, see bottom of page for a complete summary.

World’s Greatest Super Pirates (1974): Figures

Mego released four pirate fantastic looking figures for the World’s Greatest Super Pirates action figure line.

Blackbeard

Market Value:
Boxed $250 – $325
Loose $35 – $55

Blackbeard
Accessories: Cloth Coat, Shirt, Pants, Boots, Belt, Hat, Sword, Pistols x 2
Years Released: 1974
Scarcity Factor: Tough to find on the secondary market
Notes: Blackbeard is one of two historical pirates from the series, who sailed the seven seas. Blackbeard comes with his sword and two pistols, along with a very detailed looking cloth costume. Fun Fact: Blackbeard was actually pardoned of all pirating crimes and took up residence in North Carolina before getting back into the pirate game and being eventually killed in battle in 1718.

Captain Patch

Market Value:
Boxed $250 – $325
Loose $35 – $55

Captain Patch
Accessories: Cloth Shirt, Pants, Socks, Shoes, Sash, Pistol, Rifle
Years Released: 1974
Scarcity Factor: Tough to find on the secondary market
Notes: Captain Patch is the only figure in this series that is not based on any particular pirate character. Patch is mostly considered a generic pirate with no backstory. This was a strange choice by Mego since they literally had dozens of famous and well-known pirates to chose from. Captain Patch comes with a pistol and rifle, but no sword. He also comes with a purple sash and cloth costume.

Jean Lafitte

Market Value:
Boxed $250 – $325
Loose $35 – $55

Jean Lafitte
Accessories: Cloth Vest, Shirt, Pants, Boots, Belt, Hat, Pistols x 2
Years Released: 1974
Scarcity Factor: Tough to find on the secondary market
Notes: Jean Lafitte is one of two historical pirates from the series. Jean comes with no sword but has two pistols. Fun Fact: Jean Lafitte was a true pirate who had many run-in’s with the British Navy during his time. He disliked the British so much that he helped General Andrew Jackson defend New Orleans in the Battle of New Orleans from the War of 1812.

Long John Silver

Market Value:
Boxed $250 – $325
Loose $35 – $55

Long John Silver
Accessories: Coat, Shirt, Pants, Shoe, Sock, Belt, Hat, Sword, Knife, Parrot
Years Released: 1974
Scarcity Factor: Tough to find on the secondary market
Notes: Long John Silver is based on the legendary fictional character from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. This was a well done figure with a lot of neat accessories. John comes with not only a sword and knife, but also a nifty looking scarf and even a parrot. Fun fact: Long John Silver only comes with one sock and shoe because he only has one leg, the other is a peg leg.

World’s Greatest Super Pirates (1974): Accessories

There were no accessories released for the World’s Greatest Super Pirates action figure series.

World’s Greatest Super Pirates (1974): Playsets

Mego did not actually release any playsets for the World’s Greatest Super Pirates action figure line, but there were rumors of an allegedly planned pirate ship that never made it production.

World’s Greatest Super Pirates (1974): Vehicles

There were no vehicles released for the World’s Greatest Super Pirates action figure series.

By 1974, Mego toys had a huge hit on their hands with their World’s Greatest Super Heroes line, and were going through a big expansion period. The Action Jackson line was winding down, so Mego needed to introduce some other non-super hero action figure lines to give them a little diversity. Their success on the WGSH line gave Mego some real clout in the toy industry and were boasting huge toy sale numbers, so they could take a few gambles with some different types of action figure lines, and boy did they ever. One of those gambles happened to be the World’s Greatest Super Pirates action figure line. This was part of a few different historical action figure lines that Mego released in the mid 1970’s. The idea was to release an action figure line based on Pirates, which in theory sounds very cool. The line did see some limited success, but just not enough to keep it going for additional waves.

The World’s Greatest Super Pirates toy line featured four basic characters, which are a complete mixed bag of actual historic pirates and some fictional ones as well. featured from actual pirates were the legendary Blackbeard and Jean Lafitte. From the fictional side, we got Long John Silver from the iconic book, Treasure Island and Captain Patch. Captain Patch actually doesn’t appear to be from anything in particular and seems more of a general pirate character. This is a strange choice by Mego because there was certainly no shortage of crazy cool pirate characters to create. There was talk of a ship vehicle or playset for these figures, but it never actually materialized, which is a shame. There were no other accessories created for the Super Pirates line.

The packaging for the World’s Greatest Super Pirates line of action figures certainly fit the theme of the line with the ship in the background and the Super Pirates logo in an old cutlass sword. It was the standard boxed Mego figure design that began being introduced in 1973, with the open window so you can check out the figure inside. The figure itself sat just off to the left, while an old pirate ship drawing adorned the right side. Each character’s name sat above the box window and the Super Pirates logo sat on the bottom of each box. The Super Pirates packaging was fairly simple but was still attractive.

Set of Boxed Figures

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