Elwar Button Mystery

[hugohernandez]

I think you are right.   I am gonna do some hit and miss on looking thru the FM's that I keep in my bedroom.       I did win that auction last night so now I got 3 wonderful dups and the original vending machine for the little Elwars.   I will post when I get them!!   

The search and the mystery continues.   

[zman1981]

Congrats.  That was a steal...


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[hugohernandez]

were you bidding on that one as well?   

[hugohernandez]

Looked through the 20's and that went back to 1962 and no buttons.

I don't have all of the twenties issues, but I did look thru #26, #29 and #30, no button ads.       

I don't have the other of the twenties.      Ill check the higher numbers tomorrow.

[hugohernandez]

back to the ben-day dots for a comparison.    Phantom (binder) is 4 color printed with dots.

Mummy is a photocopy and it shows.   No sharpness at all in the mummy face, no ben-day dots, just a blur.

[hugohernandez]

I went thru a ton of magazines last evening, #30's, 40's, 50's, 60's and then a few of the Monster Worlds that I own.   continuing on thru the 80's and upwards was futile.

It blows my mind that in that picture, the 2nd and 3rd FM paperbacks, 1964, 1965 are shown in the pic with the 1st run buttons and yet no ADS at all for the monster buttons until FM 95!   

A theory could be, FJA is wearing them to promote them and maybe possibly giving them away at the signing.

He runs into legal issues, due to no copyright info.     So button manufacturing halts. 

But then doesn't begin until the 1970's?   Doesn't make sense.

ALSO does anybody know if the Dracula Fan Club button appeared ANYWHERE in FM as a premium?     Maybe that one too was offered the same time as the 1st run buttons.      I wonder if that kid is any one of us?  He would know for sure if just off the picture grid there perhaps was an entire table with those 1st run buttons, and the Dracula Fan Club button, also for sale.

OH MAN.... my mind hurts.

[Mike Scott]

ALSO does anybody know if the Dracula Fan Club button appeared ANYWHERE in FM as a premium?   

It was probably given away by the Dracula Fan Club, whoever they were.

[hugohernandez]

If Forry is wearing it, I just bet it was produced by Captain Company.

I wonder if that old Hakes auction has any publishing info on it?   1700 for that Drac fan club button, or to be more precise, The Bela Lugosi Fan Club button.

Now I wish I had seen that auction.        NOBODY here won that auction?    Surely this is the most prominent website devoted to Monster Fans like us.   Why could I dare compare that this site is the FM of fan monster sites?     I have only been a member for a short time but I feel like this site is
the best of the best.

[Mike Scott]

If Forry is wearing it, I just bet it was produced by Captain Company.

The never sold them.

[Hepcat]

Outstanding collection! Only a Frankenstein away from perfection!

Agreed!

[hugohernandez]

My only other hope is to look thru the other monster magazines from that time.    Surely they offered up ephemera like Captain Company.

maybe the button ad is somewhere in those publications.

[Mike Scott]

By request.

1958 FM fan club kt.

Button


Card


Certificate

[hugohernandez]

Oh Wow.   That is pretty cool and I assume that is all your's from your childhood?    I think I see your name on that last certificate.

Nice very nice.

How about a shot of your current monster button Collection, if you don't mind?

thanks for showing the Vice Pres button.   While looking for the 1st run Elwars, I ran across an Ad for the Be a Vice President in an issue of FM.

way to score!

[Mike Scott]

That is pretty cool and I assume that is all your's from your childhood?

None of that is mine. I do have a button, but this one is just a pic from my files. The buttons and the cards are very scares. There's only one known copy of the Cert. It sold for $400 on ebay a few years ago.

How about a shot of your current monster button Collection, if you don't mind?

I really don't have a vintage button collection. Just some Creature buttons (Elwars and a Batty Button) and the two FM club buttons. The only other buttons I have are recent custom made ones, like the old UMA buttons.

[Mike Scott]

Some b/w photos from the Warren archives.

Art for the original 3.5" buttons. Instructions are to reduce the art to 7/8" for making the small Elwar buttons. A clue that would indicate that Warren is Elwar.




Photo of a (proposed?) carded large Elwar button.