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Aqualad was released by Mego in 1977 as part of The Teen Titans series which was the last set of new figures from the very popular World's Greatest Super-Heroes line of action figures.
Along with Aquaman's sidekick Aqualad, the series also included Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, and Speedy (Green Arrow's sidekick who is often mistakenly thought to be The Flashes sidekick because of his name).
There were so many reasons for Mego to create an Aqualad action figure in 1977. First, the 1960s Aquaman cartoon had been in steady reruns for the previous ten years. Aqualad was featured in that show just as he appears in his Mego form. Additionally, the Teen Titan short filmation cartoons from that same late 1960s time period were also regularly aired as reruns during the 1970s.
The Teen Titans action figures represent a lot of changes for Mego Corporation. Not only were these the first 7" figures Mego released in their World's Greatest Super-Heroes line of figures, but the Titans are also the very last new characters added to the series.
Aqualad's iconic red and blue suit became very familiar to a generation of kids who grew up watching the 1960s Aquaman cartoon.
By 1977, Mego was ready to abandon the oven mitts which had launched the WGSH line five years earlier. Kid Flash and Speedy along with Aqualad all received form-fitting rubber gloves which certainly looked cooler than the oven mitts used for characters like Batman, Robin, and Aquaman.
A couple of drawbacks to these gloves were that they're incredibly difficult to remove or put onto the figures. As with the Mego oven mitts, the characters can't actually hold anything when they're wearing gloves.
Aqualad's boots are made from the same blue rubber as his gloves and are equally hard to remove and replace, but they sure look good.
Aqualad's uniform and overall look was nearly identical on the 1960s Teen Titans cartoons (shown above) as it was on Aquaman's series from that same decade. Both series lived on as re-runs for years to come.
Aqualad is wearing an all red top with three quarter sleeves. It's not evident that the sleeves are less than full length since the gloves come up to meet them just below the elbow.
As with most Mego figures, Aqualad's top is clasped in the back using two silver snaps -- one just below the base of his neck and a second above the blue trunks inline with his black belt.
The red top is stitched to a pair of light blue swim trunks. The seam of the stitching is covered by a black vinyl belt. Unlike Aquaman's "A" sticker which was actually larger than the height of the belt and cut into an upside down "V", Aqualad's belt emblem is much simpler -- a wide black rectangular sticker with a stylized yellow "A".
Aqualad's light blue trunks are stitched to flesh colored leggings which go down just below the knees and meet the boots perfectly. Aside from characters like Conan the Barbarian and Thor whose arms are fully exposed, Mego usually opted to cover the "naked" body parts of their figures with flesh colored material.
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