Bring on your best box art! Here's the target game from the 60s without the spike spots. I cleaned up the artwork this morning using Photoshop and took out the point values as well as the spike hole circles. Enjoy!
BTW, it's also my new avatar.
(http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/3619/targetgamewithoutspotslyg3.jpg)
I see your frank, and raise you the bride from a few years ago.. photoshopped into a desktop wallpaper for myself..
(http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb2/Gareee_photos/Misc/bride_wall.jpg)
Aw man, I'd love a big printable scan of that.
One of my favorites along with the Hasbro artwork and the Remco dolls.
Let's not forget about the original artwork for the Mego Wolfman box. Beautiful stuff.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/Roback/Roback2007/Roback2008/MegoWolfmanoriginalartcomparison-1.jpg)
Here's the original Horrorscope box top artwork along with the toy...one of my all time faves.
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b352/Gasport2000/Horrorscopegroup.jpg)
Quote from: Roback on October 18, 2008, 06:17:19 PM
Let's not forget about the original artwork for the Mego Wolfman box. Beautiful stuff.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/Roback/Roback2007/Roback2008/MegoWolfmanoriginalartcomparison-1.jpg)
Hey Robert, if that is the original artwork, how come it looks so different? Was it a first attempt? Do you know?
Best,
Matt
I'd have to go with the Aurora Monster kits and the Jaymar puzzles.
Actually Matt, I don't. I was approached a couple of years ago by a very reputable third party who knew me from Megocentral. To make a long story short, he introduced me to the seller and we couldn't agree on a price. Soon after he went ahead and listed it on eBay. If my memory serves me, I think I have more info on the piece buried in old emails. I could do a search to uncover more data if you'd like.
Wow, I'd kill to have a nice, high-quality scan of the original art for that Mego Wolfman! Awesome!
Icons, eh? Well, General, I see your Frankie...
(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii98/roheimiana/castleMedium.jpg)
... and I raise you two Frankies!
(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii98/roheimiana/jigcropMedium.jpg)
(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii98/roheimiana/Scan20053Medium.jpg)
The Frankenstein monster is my all time favorite monster.Dose anyone have a rough idea how many different products of him have been produced over the years? I no this is a tough question
but I'm just curious to see if any of our experts here may no? Thanks in advance.
Well, it's not from a toy, but it's sure iconic:
(http://www.grimmovie.biz/_wizardimages/frank_frazetta_frankenstein.jpg)
Frank Frazetta's original, for a vintage book cover.
-Craig
My own personal favorites, both of which I am lucky enough to have in my own collection. The Karloff game I think is the greatest looking of the many Monster board games. The AHI box is for the Jigglers.
Beast witches,
Matt Jaycox
What a box cover!:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3041/2957032192_68f3209aab.jpg?v=0)
How can you go wrong with a hanged man, and a guillotined one?!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/2956189001_23bf82eee7.jpg?v=0)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2956188113_7c81241f25.jpg?v=0)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2957033852_53f4ab5cc2.jpg?v=0)
Do you, like me, think that AHI used a pic of Paul Naschy as the control art for the Wolf Man on their packaging? There is a poster for "Werewolf vs. The Vampire Women" that uses almost that exact image. It's certainly no Chaney, Jr.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/2957034628_5fb2b74c50.jpg?v=0)
I love that Karloff game!!!!!
Fabulous Jiggler box Matt. Have you had it long? Also, I love documenting just where these turn up. For example. one of my Mego WGSH display boxes was found on a shelf in an antique store, filled with stuff. Imagine seeing this on a shelf? :o I almost blew a gasket.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/Roback/displayboxpic.jpg)
Quote from: Roback on October 19, 2008, 09:32:21 PM
Fabulous Jiggler box Matt. Have you had it long? Also, I love documenting just where these turn up.
Very undramatic. I won it off Ebay, just barely beating out our own poseablemonster, Andrew Wiliams. I don't think he has forgiven me for it, yet.
But he will.... soon...
Matt
All is forgiven, Matt...how could I stay mad at mug like you? ;D ;)
I think I remember when you won that jiggler box, Matt. If I didn't say it then, I'll say it now: Congratulations! That is a great AHI treasure.
I need to google up an image of this Naschy poster so I can see what you are talking about. If the AHI Wolf Man art is Naschy, that will give me a whole new reason to appreciate those toys.
Oh man, that Frazetta painting is my favorite of all his work! Nice! It'd be great to have a poster of that! :)
Thanks to Terry's labors with Photoshop, I was able to make myself a miniature Target Game. It's about eight inches square, just the right size for Big Frankie to play with:
(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii98/roheimiana/targ005Medium.jpg)
That Karloff game is one of my favorites as well, I love looking at mine in the display case. I also love the box art on the Godzilla and Kong board games. Sadly I don't own the Kong game...yet.
Quote from: The Phantom Creep on October 18, 2008, 10:11:58 PMI'd have to go with the Aurora Monster kits and the Jaymar puzzles.
I second your nomination of James Bama's box art on the Aurora monster model kits:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Aurora_a.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/bamaposter1.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/JCbridefranknstnMIBA_lg.jpg) (http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/aurora-figure-kit-customizing-monster-kit1.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/bamafrk.jpg)
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Mort Kunstler also did a lot of incredible box art for Aurora including these monsterrific renderings:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/aurora-figure-kit-forgotten-prisoner1.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Lost_in_Space.jpg)
Kunstler also did the absolutely fabulous box art for the Mad Mad Mad Scientist Laboratory:
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3086/4562075255_671eaa206b_b.jpg)
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Some more iconic monster toy art...
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51329348226_2025f71208_4k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mcNjWw)Monster Wallets (SPP 1963) (https://flic.kr/p/2mcNjWw) by donald deveau (https://www.flickr.com/photos/124856366(*at*)N04/), on Flickr
And more...
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51327527668_bd4e51192b_4k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2mcCZKA)Monster Wallets (SPP 1963) (https://flic.kr/p/2mcCZKA) by donald deveau (https://www.flickr.com/photos/124856366(*at*)N04/), on Flickr
Has anyone determined who did the artwork on the SPP wallets?
???
Quote from: Hepcat on March 06, 2023, 05:22:21 PM
Has anyone determined who did the artwork on the SPP wallets?
Lost to history, as far as I know. Same with the Hasbro art.
When I owned the original art for them I tried to find out, never could. They were really colorful with much detail, without a doubt they were probably my favorite pieces. With all the other illustration art I once owned by well known names of artists, these 6 pieces were tops.
Quote from: skully on March 07, 2023, 01:44:00 AM
When I owned the original art for them I tried to find out, never could.
You owned the original wallet art!? When and where did you get them? What size were they?
See PM.
They look like someone tried copying the James Bama Aurora box art, especially Dracula.
As a matter of fact, the art for the display box clearly copied the Aurora model box art.
Not sure if they had in-house artists doing the work.
Aurora's success made them the "unofficial official" style guide for all things monsters of the 60's for product like AHI, wallets, etc.
The old Cragstan's Creeping Crawling Hand toy used the Aurora Frankenstein art for their box art - just changed the face a bit and did a closeup of one of the hands. Loved that toy.
Quote from: Mike Scott on March 07, 2023, 02:08:37 AM
You owned the original wallet art!? When and where did you get them? What size were they?
Yes, any info you could give us would be much appreciated. Did you own the original paintings? Were they done in gouache? Gouache was commonly used for illustration in the early 1960's. What size were they? Was there any writing or printed info on the back?
Hi Monolith. Yes, I once owned them. And yes, they were actually done in gouache, very colorful and dynamic in appearance, probably as close as one could get with Aurora box art likeness. They weren't too big, probably around 10x12 or so. No writing was on the art boards, they each had clear overlay with the writing on them, they were framed with the overlays intact and showing.
Quote from: skully on March 07, 2023, 03:51:47 PM
Hi Monolith. Yes, I once owned them. And yes, they were actually done in gouache, very colorful and dynamic in appearance, probably as close as one could get with Aurora box art likeness. They weren't too big, probably around 10x12 or so. No writing was on the art boards, they each had clear overlay with the writing on them, they were framed with the overlays intact and showing.
Wow! Those are a very cool thing to have owned. Thanks for the info.
I was awed when I saw pictures of the original art for several of these wallets on (I think) the inside back cover of some issue of Bill Bruegman's Model and Toy Collector magazine in 1989(?) or so.
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Model_and_Toy_Collector_2.jpg)
It must though have been after the first half dozen issues or so because these were published in B&W only.
:-\
The Ideal board games had better box art than the other ones since Ralph Pereida's artwork was a cut above those of other board game artists. Here are some examples:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%202/godzilla-boardgame-ideal_zps64c069b4.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/King%20Kong%20Ideal%201%20-%20Copy_zpsr3ff5lgb.jpg)
(https://oi1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Addams%20family%20Board_zpsji0cg5gd.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Land_of_the_Giants_board_game.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Time_Tunnel_board_game.jpg)
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(https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/.highres/Uncle1_zps55a7be26.jpg)
I have an Ideal Man from U.N.C.L.E. board game in my own collection:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Halloween%202013%20%20Deuce%20Styx%20Cowboy%20Cake/DSCN3171_zps79acadfc.jpg)
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The artist who did the box art for Revell's "Big Daddy" Roth model kits was the legendary Jack Leynnwood:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Jack_Leynnwood_Crowding_the_Box_(02)-960.jpg)
Box Art Illustrator Jack Leynnwood (https://youtu.be/pwJHhvDMUcA)
Leynnwood did the art for five "Big Daddy" Roth's show car kits in 1962-63 before tackling any finks. His effort on the Mysterion is the wildest if not the best:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Mysterion_zpsuxwegf3m.jpg)
Leynnwood then did a whole series of the fink kits for Revell. Here are some examples:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Roth_Mother_s_Worry_model.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Roth_Dragnut_box.jpg?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/RevellratFink_zps656ab25d.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/.highres/Angel%20Fink_zpspstr9sjo.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/.highres/Scuz_zps6xtwrlft.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/.highres/Revell%20BRM_zpswuu5gqre.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/.highres/Revell%20Lotus_zpstjbp8ufi.jpg)
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Bill Campbell was the Hawk staff artist who created the iconic Weird-Ohs and did the box art:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/51RSLAD0vL__SS500_.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/7e6650642c72dc9752051b9c22c4.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/4e1b8f5efcdffe7bbca4746885e3.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/lindberg-weirdohs-drag-hag.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/303dced857c5a95f56adff8cdde1.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/HAK16010-450.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/HAK16006.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/b9274b9b26b858d26ea8160fa917.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/wademint.jpg)
Bill Campbell was responsible for most of Hawk's box art from the mid 1950's to 1965. Here's a self-portrait he did surrounded by some of his most famous creations:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Campbell_Weird-Ohs_cZsTrsaMnwv2MEkitmvzfF.jpg)
And here's a book by Mark Cantrell devoted to Bill Campbell and his artwork:
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51e0slRP0UL._SX373_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)
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Quote from: Roback on October 18, 2008, 06:17:19 PMLet's not forget about the original artwork for the Mego Wolfman box. Beautiful stuff.
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/MegoWolfmanoriginalartcomparison-1.webp)
Indeed it is! The artist responsible for the fabulous artwork on those Mego Mad Monster Series boxes from 1974 was Gray Morrow:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Mego_Dracula_h9yhuWpdKcVk8qRG7ffkCG.jpg) (http://www.megomuseum.com/legend/monsters/mmmart.jpg)
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1704/26625219146_1eee8b0aee_h.jpg)
Gray Morrow had already achieved considerable reknown in monster fandom in the 1964-67 years as a regular story contributor to various Warren publications including
Creepy,
Eerie and
Blazing Combat.
Creepy 1(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Gray_Morrow_Bewitched.jpg)
Creepy 9(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Gray_Morrow_Dark_Kingdom.jpg)
During those years he also pencilled the covers to
Creepy 8, 13 & 14 and
Eerie 4, 6 & 10.
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Eerie_6.jpeg) (Not mine.)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Creepy_14_a.jpg) (Not mine.)
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Here's the cover and a few panels from the interior pages of the Neal Adams penciled booklet that was included inside the Aurora Monster Scenes model kits from 1971:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Adams1_zps82bvel6r.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%203/General%20Album%203001/Adams%202_zpszywv48vo.jpg)
(https://40.media.tumblr.com/65335472ddb6ecd6f20d653e78c311cf/tumblr_nqkj75x6Ua1rv91n5o1_500.png)
And these Aurora Comic Scenes boxes from 1974 featuring Neal Adams' artwork contain certain monstery or sci-fi elements:
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/AAuroraSuperboy.jpg) (http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/AAuroraBatman.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/AAuroraRobin.jpg) (http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/AAuroraSpiderman.jpg)
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Jack Davis is perhaps the most fabled monster artist of them all but I'm not aware of any specific monster toy box art on his part. Perhaps though these LPs can be classified as "toys":
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75ptQuFbEv0/TKcrJkZmDAI/AAAAAAAAFfU/S2YDW_2nTms/s1600/P4110020.JPG)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%202/Jack.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%202/Jack4.jpg)
Moreover this ad for a fabulous B&W poster of Frankenstein drawn by Jack Davis ran in Warren magazines for much of the 1960's:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Jack_Davis_Frankenstein.jpg)
Brentz Dolz released it as an action figure earlier this year:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Jack_Davis_Franky.webp)
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Many/most monster or sci-fi fans are well aware of the covers that Ken Kelly did for Warren magazines. His renderings of Vampirella over the years were particularly striking:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/(edited)_Vampirella_46.png)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Ken_Kelly_Vampirella_3.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Ken_Kelly_Vampirella_2.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Ken_Kelly_Vampirella_4.jpg)
But Ken Kelly also did the box art for Mego's 1976-80 line of Micronaut action figures. Here are a few examples:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Ken_Kelly_Antron.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Ken_Kelly_Kronos.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Ken_Kelly_Lobros.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Ken_Kelly_membros-1979.jpg)
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Beautiful art work.
Todd McFarlane got his first really big break into drawing mainstream comics when he started pencilling covers and interiors of Infinity Inc. for DC in 1985:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Todd_Infinity_Inc_Vol_1_17.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Infinity_Inc_Vol_1_23.webp)
His work on Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel beginning in 1987 then catapulted him into superstardom:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Todd_Spider-Man.jpg)
His Spider-Man shall we say had a very distinctive look. His Spawn title was then instrumental in the launch of the Image line of comics in 1992.
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Todd_Spawn-Universe-Feature.webp)
For better or more probably worse, Spawn completely obliterated the line between super-heroes and monsters. McFarlane then launched his own line of Spawn action figures in 1994:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/McFarlane_Spawn_2.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/McFarlane_spawn-wave-2-deluxe-she-spawn-787926901634_1024x1024.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/McFarlane_Spawn_3.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/McFarlane_Tiffany.webp)
The McFarlane Spawn figure line was a quantum leap above any other action figures released to that point and took the market by storm. McFarlane Toys then quickly segued into other action figure lines including Monsters in 1997:
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/McFarlane_Monsters_Sea.webp)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/McFarlane_Mummy-Playsets1-Front.jpg)
(https://hosting.photobucket.com/images/g434/Balticprince/Todd_McFarlane_Phantom.jpg)
(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/General%20Album%202/Voodoo-queen.jpg)
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