McFarlane Toys DC Direct Mr Bones review (2025) – Gold Label

Mr Bones is one of the more fitting figures in McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse line. Early on in his entry into comics, Todd McFarlane had a fairly lengthy stint as the artist for Infinity Inc. One of the main adversaries, who would become a reluctant team member was Mr Bones.

Infinity Inc. isn’t a team that has a massive following where collectors are clamoring to complete the team, but it would be cool if McFarlane Toys knocked out Infinity Inc. just for the full circle moment for the Toddfather.

In one of the signature McFarlane moves, Mr Bones was part of a mini-wave with fellow Infinity Inc. teammate.

Let’s see if this anti-hero gets a figure worthy of including in the line or if Mr Bones just needs to be buried.

Packaging:  The clamshell packaging for the DC Multiverse line indicates a Page Punchers figure. That’s not the case here as Mr Bones is part of the Lithograph Collection. Instead of a comic, he comes with a black and white lithograph of McFarlane’s artwork on Infinity Inc.

Likeness: Mr Bones is a pretty solid figure. His head sculpt is outstanding with excellent work on his mouth and sunken eyes. He’s using the Electric Superman mold with some new parts for his thigh high boots and flared gloves.

Those look good and reflect the cover art well. It’s confusing that the cape clasps and belt don’t match the cover, however.

One of the weirder aspects of the figure is the cape. Definitely not the fact that it’s soft goods, but that it doesn’t match up to McFarlane’s own artwork. His collar isn’t flared with two high points like Todd always drew it.

The good part is McFarlane Toys has done so many Spawn figures with dramatic capes with that collar flare that there’s no lack of options including possibly a few with wired capes.

In fairness, the cape’s poseable nature allows you to crease the ‘hooded’ section to create those points even if it’s not as dramatic as McFarlane drew it.

Midway through Todd McFarlane’s run on Infinity Inc., Mr Bones lost his left leg and had it replaced by a cybernetic prosthetic leg from the knee down. I wouldn’t have minded that version of him since it breaks up the black and yellow color scheme better.

Scale: Mr Bones is 6’1″ so he should be just a little shorter than the 6’2″ Batman or Hal Jordan. He’s a tad taller than Batman but given some of the more egregious scale issues in this line, it’s not that bad here.

Paint: McFarlane figures usually are solid in this category with very clean paint jobs. Mr Bones doesn’t break the tradition. His skull is especially well done with a dark grey wash to help bring out those smaller details like his teeth.

Like the old Hasbro Marvel Legends X-Men figures, the yellow of his costume is more of a yellow orange instead of a pure yellow. That’s likely due to needing more coats of that fainter yellow while the yellow orange stands out stronger against the black with less paint apps.

For Mr Bones, I do wish McFarlane added some blue highlights to his costume to reflect that comic book look. The all-black costume is somewhat flat and that blue shading would really look nice in this instance.

For whatever reason his belt is painted in segments as opposed to one solid item so the figure has a weirdly higher level of difficulty with the belt paintjob.

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Articulation: The Superman mold is very poseable allowing Mr Bones to have no trouble getting some good poses with the standard 22 points of articulation.

Mr Bones is a brawling character with enhanced strength and stamina. His unfortunate power, thanks to his mutant birth due to a doctor giving his mother a high dose of chemicals, is a cyanide touch.

That kills anyone over time after exposure to his translucent skin. While it looks like he’s just a skeleton, it’s just that no one can see his skin. He’s the real John Cena.

Mr Bones has:

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

Accessories: Mr Bones didn’t have a lot of obvious accessory options. Although since he wasn’t a figure that was getting anywhere close to retail there was a major one that he really should have gotten — his ever-present carton of cigarettes or a lone cigarette. The dude was a severe chain smoker.

What he does get are a set of swappable open palm hands and a right clutching hand.

He also comes with the usual trading card with the bio and black circular stand. And of course, the lithograph, which I suppose is cool for Infinity Inc. fans?

Worth it?  At $27.99, Mr Bones isn’t a great deal as the price hikes have hit McFarlane Toys hard. Even with the soft goods cape, given the lack of accessories, he’s more of a $22.99 figure.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Mr Bones is a fun addition to the DC Multiverse line. I’m pretty impressed with how he turned out although I do still wish his cape collar had a bit more flare.

Where to get it?  DC Multiverse Mr Bones is a McFarlane Toys Store exclusive. You can also try their website. For more DC Multiverse figures, you can grab them from Amazon.

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