Hoo boy, we’ve got a live one this month. Two covers with two world premieres, and way more world premieres inside!

• It’s DC Comics’ 75th anniversary, and we speak to Mattel about their plans for celebrating the milestone. Plus, we give you your exclusive FIRST LOOK at Mattel’s DC UNIVERSE CLASSICS WAVE 14! (You can spot ‘em all tiny on the cover above right, but you’ll get a MUCH better look inside the mag).

• We’ve got an exciting look inside all of Hasbro’s top boy brands, giving you a tantalizing sneak peek at what the rest of the world will see at New York Toy Fair. Aside from cover boy Leader Class Starscream, check out new figures from Marvel Universe, new Iron Man comic book figures, a brand-new G.I. Joe HISS Tank and even more!

• We run down the characters we want to see in Bif Bang Pow!’s new Lost toy line, and get the odds from BBP! about whether or not they’ll make an appearance.

• On the retro front, we take a look back at Monster in My Pocket with the line’s creator, and look at his plans to bring the line back for a new generation.

• In Twisted ToyFare, we kick off a new 2-part storyline featuring Joe and Cobra! Did you know that Duke and Cobra Commander knew each other when they were much younger? Go back to school with Joe and Cobra and find out their secret origins in “G.I. Joe: The Risers of Cobra”!

• All this, plus world premiere Superman figures from DC Direct, new Last Airbender toys from Spin Master, new JLU toys from Mattel, new Final Fantasy XIII figures from Square Enix, new statues from Gentle Giant and So! Much! More!

ToyFare loves Megos (they star in our signature comic strip, Twisted ToyFare Theatre, after all). ToyFare loves Venture Bros., one of the best shows on television. Put them together, and ToyFare owes someone at Bif Bang Pow! a beer.

That’s because the company just announced that their eagerly awaited Venture Bros. figures will be retro Mego-styled, thanks  to help from the awesome EMCE Toys company, who are behind Diamond Select’s recent Star Trek Megos and Mattel’s DC retro Mego-style figures. But wait, there’s more! ALL of BBP!’s licenses will be getting the Mego styling this year, including Dexter, Twilight Zone, Big Legowski and Lost. Lost!

We’re getting ready to write our next two year’s worth of Twisted ToyFares. Meanwhile, you can head over to Entertainment Earth and start pre-ordering the Lost figures.

Oh, and what’s the image we used to illustrate this story? Well, just in case you haven’t picked up ToyFare #151 (in stores now!), that, my friends, is a fictional ToyFare cover that will be appearing ON SCREEN somewhere or other in an upcoming episode of Venture Bros. We are, as the Belgian say, freakin’ psyched.

With that in mind, I decided to reintroduce myself by recycling some text I wrote when we launched FarePlay back in ‘08, with some minor updating. I’m lazy efficient like that. Enjoy!

Hi, my name is Justin Aclin, and I’m the Editor of ToyFare. That’s me in the photo up there. Well…an action figure of me by the amazing Jin Saotome. But my guns are totally that big.

So what does the Editor do? How does one get to be an Editor? Why did my old title used to sound better than my current title even though my new position is higher? Strap yourselves in, because I’m going to answer at least two of those questions. And I’m extremely long-winded.

As Editor, I’m basically in charge of the whole shebang here – it’s my responsibility to make sure that everything that goes in the magazine meets ToyFare’s high standards of entertainment, readability and juvenile humor. Not a page gets printed unless I give it the okay, which means that, ultimately, all the typos are my fault.

Aside from the actual editing, I’m in charge of determining the content for the magazine,  brainstorming all the feature articles and coming up with ideas for covers. I’ll also write the occasional article for the magazine, and I remain one of the head writers for Twisted ToyFare Theatre, as well as the goofy word balloons scattered throughout the issues.

I started as a Wizard intern during college, was hired as an Associate Editor for ToyFare right out of college, then slowly worked my way up to Senior Editor under Zach Oat’s Editorship. For reasons no one can adequately explain, Senior Editor is less good than Editor. Then I left for a couple of months. Then Zach left. Then I came back and took his job. And now I’ve got his old computer that has all his music in its iTunes library.

My all-time favorite toy lines are Masters of the Universe (in all its incarnations), Xevoz, Marvel Legends, DC Universe Classics and MiniMates. Here’s an article I wrote for USA Today’s Pop Candy blog about my favorite forgotten ’80s toy lines.

Well, that wasn’t too ridiculously long, was it? If you find yourself yearning for even more of my ramblings, you can check out this interview with Zach and I from a few years back on the radio program Fanboy Radio. It gets into some of the details about the making of Twisted ToyFare and the magazine, if you’re into that sort of thing.

There, now you know who’s writing this crap. Hope you feel enriched!

Aaaaare you ready tooooooo look at pictures of action figuuuuuuuuuuuuuuures?

A fight has broken out on one of the covers of ToyFare #151 thanks to Jakks Pacific’s new UFC figures (there’s an alternate cover featuring Lego’s top secret new line Hero Factory that’s SO top secret I’m not going to show it to you yet), but inside it’s all about the love.

Here’s what you’ll find in the issue, out in comic shops tomorrow:

• An interview with Jakks about the new UFC figures, featuring the world premiere of a new wave!

• Want to know more about those top secret Lego Hero Factory figures I mentioned? This is where you can find out, no matter which cover you get!

• We talk to Bif Bang Pow!’s Jason Lenzi about the new Venture Bros. toy line, and debut a very personal piece of art from the new season of Venture Bros.!

• We make our case for 12 toy lines in desperate need of a reboot in “Return of the Plastic Dead.”

• Over in Twisted ToyFare, M.A.S.K. and V.E.N.O.M. attempt to put aside their differences and make a big-screen M.A.S.K. movie. It does not go well.

• Star Wars fans! Find out who won Hasbro and ToyFare’s latest Fan’s Choice poll, and feast your eyes on new Star Wars products from Gentle Giant!

• Plus, a brand new Customizing 101, new images in Incoming from Bowen Designs, Sideshow, Mattel and more, your monthly dose of Big Shots and Market Watch and more!