DC Multiverse Clock King review – McFarlane Collector Edition No. 18

Clock King wins the award for least likely villain to get a figure in the McFarlane Collector Edition line in 2024. Especially since we’re still waiting on a figure of his original enemy, Green Arrow, in his classic outfit.

McFarlane definitely deserves credit for thinking outside the norm with character choices and I appreciate him taking chances on more unique characters that haven’t had a slew of figures made in the past.

Let’s see if the time was right for an awesome Clock King figure or if it’s time to turn the clock on this release.

Packaging: The Collector Edition line sports a very cool silver foil accents compared to the standard white.

It’s much easier to spot any flaws with the figure thanks to the wider window. There’s nothing particularly interesting on the sides and no reference to a particular storyline for this figure. On the back, McFarlane opted for the Who’s Who entry, which seriously could just be the norm for all figures since it’s a great showcase of the character.

Likeness: This is one of the coolest Multiverse figures released in the line so far. Clock King is full on Silver Age/Bonze Age greatness.

This is where the costume designs really told the story of the character so even without knowing his name you could easily infer that his shtick dealt with time.

He’s got a great head sculpt with the big clock face. The detail work is done via a tampo with a very clean application, but it’s impressive to see this gimmicky head sculpt on a figure. He’s mainly using the Knightfall Batman body with some new gloves complete with sculpted watches and a belt with another clock on it. You’ve got to appreciate his commitment to the gimmick.

Clock King also gets a cloth cape. It’s nice to see that higher end treatment even being utilized with a C-list character like him.

Scale: Clock King is 5’10” in the comics, not that McFarlane tends to stick too closely to height for characters that are fairly close in height.

Paint:  Most of the design work for Clock King is left to the paint job. There’s a decent degree of difficulty here considering there’s so many clocks on the outfit. Again, I appreciate that the McFarlane design team didn’t take the easy way out and make less clocks by making them bigger. There is a nice mix of clock sizes throughout the costume.

For the costume, the details are just the hour and minute hands, but the face and belt clocks both have the hour marks. Another challenge is getting enough applications of white for the clocks to avoid any bleed through. The bright turquoise and green-yellow make for an excellent pair of contrasting colors. That also helps him to stand out in a display.

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Articulation: The Knightfall Batman mold allows for strong posing options making Clock King an unexpectedly fun figure to pose. He can strike a number of different poses from attack stances to fleeing Green Arrow or Batman.

And thanks to his soft goods cape, there’s no issues with it hindering his articulation or weighing him down from achieving more dynamic kneeling poses.

Clock King really proved to be a lot more fun to pose around than I originally assumed.

Is there any hope of adding Major Disaster, Big Sir, Cluemaster and Multi-Man? Todd has been doing some oddball characters in the line so it’s not entirely out of the question.

Clock King has:

• neck
• ball-jointed shoulders
• butterfly shoulders
• elbow
• wrist
• wrist hinge
• torso
• waist
• hip
• thigh
• knee
• ankle
• toe

Accessories: McFarlane Collector Edition figures tend to have more accessories than the usual Multiverse figure.

Clock King has his weapons — the hour and minute hand, which he uses as swords. They’re both have nice sized rings and cast in a gold-like plastic.

Unfortunately, that’s really all he’s got for useful accessories. He does have that goofy, card stand holder to showcase the Clock King card. And he does have the more helpful basic black stand.

He does have the basic black stand and collector card.

Worth it?  At the $30 price point, Clock King’s lack of accessories is a bad look. The cloth cape helps a little bit, but he really needed and would have benefitted from some other accessories even if it were just a mini-grandfather clock.

Rating: 9.5 out of 10

Clock King is a real treat in the Collector Edition line. For such a lower-level character, McFarlane Toys did right by him. Now hopefully we get more of his version of the Injustice League to battle each other and the JLI.

Where to get it?  Clock King has been relatively easy to find at retail at Target. You can also order him online at Amazon.

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