Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Tribute Thread!

Hepcat · September 19, 2013, 12:10:01 PM

Quote from: Flower on September 18, 2013, 09:22:31 PM

The Orbitron was actually the first Ed "Big Daddy" Roth show car that was an Ed Newton design Sadly the Orbitron was never turned into a model kit by Revell.

Flower · September 19, 2013, 12:15:34 PM

I agree but there is always hope. I just love the bright blue color of the Orbitron.

horrorhunter · September 19, 2013, 12:16:34 PM

Quote from: Hepcat on September 19, 2013, 12:10:01 PM
Sadly the Orbitron was never turned into a model kit by Revell.

They might have thought it too similar to Beatnik Bandit.

Hepcat · December 31, 2013, 11:52:41 AM

Here's a Batman satire from the first issue of "Big Daddy" Roth magazine:

jimm · December 31, 2013, 03:20:02 PM

Thanks Hep, feel free to post more stories

Hepcat · January 03, 2014, 10:47:21 AM

Alright. Here's a Green Hornet satire from the same issue:

Hepcat · January 12, 2014, 09:43:11 AM

This two page feature ran in "Big Daddy" Roth 2 in 1964:

As you can see, it was the right query but Ed got the band wrong!

Hepcat · January 20, 2014, 10:22:04 AM

Here's a cool ad for the Revell Road Agent model kit from the back cover of Big Daddy Roth 2:

Hepcat · January 28, 2014, 03:25:25 PM

Here's a great Man from U.N.C.L.E. satire from Big Daddy Roth 3:

I very clearly remember being delighted with this story as a kid. What stuck in my mind all these years though is not the Playboy aspect but the zaniness of Napoleon and Ilya losing their pants from one panel to the next as they pass through the cleaners and then a model airplane showing up out of the blue in Napoleon's hand.