Topstone yard sale find!

[poseablemonster]

Was Keith Ward the guy who did the ad drawings?

Yes, he was.

[Dr.Terror]

Keith Ward or someone at Topstone did the drawings pulled from the Topstone catalog.   Someone else, possibly Warren himself, did the drawings for the other stuff that was bunched in with it all including his own interpretations of the characters in earlier issues.    The Teenage wolf in the "Montser Mail Order" spread is an original drawing, not the Catalog artwork.

I don't think any of the earliest ads with the horned werewolf etc...used Topstone art.

The best known Orignal art mixed in with the Topstones  was for the Don Post Frankenstein mask.

[Sean]

That ape looks to be in great condition.

[Mike Scott]

Keith Ward or someone at Topstone did the drawings pulled from the Topstone catalog.   Someone else, possibly Warren himself, did the drawings for the other stuff that was bunched in with it . .

Thanks! I didn't know that. I guess the best way to tell if it's a TS drawing is see it on a catalog page, or an ad in a different monster mag.

The best known Orignal art mixed in with the Topstones  was for the Don Post Frankenstein mask.

Is that the one with two views (full face and profile)?

[Dr.Terror]

Yes


I'm pretty in this ad only the "Gorilla monster" and "Screaming Skull" are actual Topstone drawings.

The face mask version of frank is the Brady bunch mask.

[Mike Scott]

I'm pretty in this ad only the "Gorilla monster" and "Screaming Skull" are actual Topstone drawings.

Now that you point it out, those others don't look like the same atrist who did the gorilla and S Skull.

[poseablemonster]

You can definitely tell the difference between the Keith Ward illustrations and the others.