Kane and able to kill

Legendary movie tough guy Henry Silva was the original Kane of the 1970's TV series in the pilot episode, and his action figure incarnation - Killer Kane - projects the flamboyant sinister urge with comic book interpretation.  His successor to the role in the TV series was somewhat less virile, though no less charismatic (Michael Ansara).  Both are/were great actors and deserving of their own immortality in 3 3/4 scale.

The Kane figure is more reminiscent of Henry Silva's portrayal, with a Roman Empire esque hair do and psychotic gaze.  Some figures have that warm, friendly face, not necessarily smiling, just a slight eyebrow inflection or bent mouth to signify they're expressing some human emotion.  Not so with Kane, his expressionless glare reveals only that he's deeply troubled and not to be trusted.  The figure actually looks more sinister than his on-screen persona.

A deep purple two-piece with jewel-encrusted neckline and high-worn black & silver belt suits the figure well, though he looks more like a futuristic foot soldier or flamboyant mercenary than a supreme leader.  Draco after all has a cape and a guard in his namesake, to convey his supremacy.  Like his contemporaries, Kane is susceptible to slack-waist disease and loose limbs, though fortunately at little more than $10 out-of-packet, he's inexpensive to replace (I've also seen him MOC for little more than $30 which is good value for this figure, not quite as ubiquitous as some of the others in the line).

While I owned Kane in childhood, when I re-surfaced my collection recently, all that remained was his lower torso, the rest of his wretched corpse presumably dissolved with the passage of time.  It was a destiny that befell all my Buck Rogers childhood collection, and further evidence of why Mego were the indisputable kings of concept and design, but relative peasants in figure construction - they just don't take the pounding a child metes out to his (or her) figures and dolls.  Perhaps it was Wilma Deering who cleft Kane in twain, or more likely, Ardala with whom he was secretly enamoured and seeking to undermine.  Either way, he's my favourite in this always impressive Mego line, nothing quite surpasses that resting psycho face. 

Killer Kane | 1979 | Mego | Buck Rogers in the 25th Century