DC Collectibles Bombshells Death Statue Review

Street Date: 2020-01-08
MSRP: $125
Price I Paid: $95
Edition Size: 5000
Statue Scale: 1/7

Designed by Ant Lucia
Sculpted by Tim Miller

The original prototype (flipped colors and syringe)

In the Cover Girls line of statues, DC usually releases Death as the last statue in a wave.  Therefore, Bombshells fans were concerned that Death might be the last of this line as well.  However, DC decided that there were simply too many popular characters that hadn't been depicted using this aesthetic yet, so the line will continue with Huntress in May.

The statue comes with an instruction sheet and three desiccant packets.  In the top half of the Styrofoam brick, there's a piece of foam in the compartment for the umbrella.  The statue itself comes in four pieces: the body, the umbrella, the base, and the nameplate.  There's a piece of Styrofoam wedged between the body and the cloak.

The umbrella could've been an afterthought, but DC really paid attention to details.  It's heavy and sturdy.  There's a spring where you would expect to see one in a real umbrella.  The top of the umbrella is painted to look like there are wires holding the cloth taut.  The umbrella is inserted through a hole in Death's hair.  There's a groove on her right shoulder for the umbrella stick, and slowly slide the stick into the handle in her right hand.  On my copy, the groove and the handle aren't perfectly aligned, so you may have to bend the umbrella stick slightly to get it to fit in the handle.

The QC and paint are pretty good.

The factory forgot to paint the right thumbnail, so I added some black paint using the tip of a paper clip.

Although DC advertises the Bombshells as 1/8-scale statues, they've been 1/7-scale since the first one, Supergirl.  Death's overall height, including the base and the top of the umbrella, is about 12-inches tall.  However, the character herself is between 9- and 10-inches tall, depending on how you want to measure her.  If you measure her from her ankle to the top of her head (not the nurse's cap), she's about 9-inches tall, which would make her 5'3" tall "in real life".  This makes sense because Death is usually drawn on the small side.

Next to Artgerm Cover Girls Death

By the way, I would not be surprised if sculptor Tim Miller based the face sculpt on actress Juliana Harkavy, who plays Dinah Drake on The CW's Arrow.

"I always carry an umbrella."