As a kid in the 80's I would see Sun Man ads in Jet magazine. I wanted one of these figures so bad because as a kid it looked cool as fukk. It was Black He-Man. Mom would take me to Woolworth, TSS, Alexanders, Gimbles and any other place that had toys in Manhattan and the Bronx and we never once saw these figures in stores. I remember thinking the stores would have them eventually but it never happened...Meanwhile I just kept collecting the Transformer and Gi Joe toys that were available. Fast foward to now and I'm looking online about Sun Man toys and I noticed other people with the same story of how they saw the ads but never the physical toy. Kids would have bought these toys if they had some real distribution like when Hasbro started distributing Transformers. And like Transformers the potential could have been endless had there been some strong support. Black people from all walks of life could have stood behind this. Muslims would enjoy the fact that the main enemy is pork. Hebrew Isrealites would appreciate the uniforms. And other races could appreciate the racial diversity in Sun Mans crew...His background has Ancient Egyptian like similarities so he's pro Black like a motherfukker but he's down with MLKs philosophy on integration as well so he can be appreciated by white people without losing that strong Black man edge.
And its not like A Black leader as a hero was a new idea in the 80's. There was this cartoon in the late 80's called C.O.P.S. and the leader was this cool ass Manly(pause) Black man named Bulletproof who was running the show. Guy Fisher was able to purchase The Apollo so where were the Black 80's kingpins who could have invested that money into some good by getting behind this?? Sun Man toys also had a comic book that could have transpired into a Cartoon which could have transpired into a movie with real people , all in the same pattern as Transformers or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Looking at Sun Mans face and physic, I can see a 90's Wesley Snipes playing Sun Man in a movie with a Blade like budget. I noticed some blogs about throwback toys set up, by obvious white people who admit to not even experiencing the toy first hand but just judging from observation, down talking Sun Man as a He-Man rip off that probabaly wasn't durable yet those online who have actually had access to the toy say that the toys were durable and not cheap like. I'm assuming the back story of Sun Man is the reason for such down talk.
Sun-Man is and was the creation of Yla Eason and was produced in 1985 by Olmec Toys. Ms. Eason started the company in the mid 1980’s with the intention, to produce and bring to market a black super-hero action figure. Her motivation was her son who told her at the age of 3 that he could never become a super-hero because he was black and all of his action figures were white. The first release of Sun-Man was in 1985 in the line called “Rulers of the Sun” which only introduced two action figures. This is what is written on the card back about these two characters:
Sun-Man “The Bright Ones” – He is a brave fighter… The most powerful man under the Sun!
Pig-Head “The Wicked Ones” – He is a rotten fighter… mean evil and destructive.
Will Sun-Man Escape the Evil Pig-Head’s Attack ?!?! Find out inside the free comic book!
With the success of this line, Sun-Man and Pig-Head were to be re-released once again only one year later in 1986 in a new line called “Sun-Man”. This new line also included four additional ethnic super-heroes: Holographo, Space Sumo (Chinese), Digitino (Mexican) , & Bolt Man (Native American). Ms. Eason also released another line called “Butterfly Woman”, a collection of the world’s first Black Super heroines for young girls to play with.
In 1989 Sun-Man was once released again, but this time had a flat-top hair cut. Again released under the “Sun-Man” logo and made by Olmec, the card was a lot bigger and the graphics had been updated. On the card-back there was a picture of all the other figures that were released prior to this figure and a few other figures that were planned for the new Sun-Man line. The new figures listed on the card-back were: Duplico, Hypno, Zap-Man, & Kikto, which sadly to say have never surfaced and are unconfirmed that they ever made it into production. If anyone has any information on these four figures like who owns the prototypes, or if they can confirmed that they were ever made, please contact us and let us know. On the front of this card this was this typed:
“The Legend of Sun-Man continues… His magical melanin skin gave him unequaled, unlimited, and special super strength. Sun-Man’s skin could not be cut, burned, bruised, broken, pierced, stabbed, ripped, or removed so Pig-Head the evil wart, was plotting to smoke-out Sun-Man. He wanted to see if he could weaken Sun-Man’s powerful skin through the smoke from the drugs Pig-Head had just cooked up. But Sun-Man flies free, protecting the right for the Galaxy-Trefixa to exist in peace. His rap is clear: “Pig-Head listen, you’re bad luck. You won’t win, so just give up. Sun-Man is on the scene to stay. My good powers shall rule all the way! The Battle has just begun…””
In closing........Sun Man toys could have been a beautiful thing for the young black psyche in America had there been some serious distribution. We should have supported Sun Man toys in the 80's
Found this on youtube. Thought it was kinda cool. Coulda been a nice lil pilot back in the day.
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. But this shyt needed a cartoon or at the very least a comic book. When I was a kid I remember seeing the black superhero and not knowing who the fukk he was. But if you're a kid with limited toys 
you're not gonna ask for some unknown character. You're gonna ask for the Ninja Turtles or something...
