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[horrorhunter]

Batty Buttons original package:

[horrorhunter]

Scan of my Ugly Buttons:



Link to an old thread with more info: http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=23453.msg380961#msg380961

[Mike Scott]

Batty Buttons original package:

See the entire BB set, here. (Click buttons for details.)

http://buttonmuseum.org/search/node/batty%20buttons

[Hepcat]

Batty Buttons original package:

That's a super fab button! The coolest I can remember seeing pictured on UMA.

[horrorhunter]

That's a super fab button! The coolest I can remember seeing pictured on UMA.

It is way cool, very Blaculaesque. 

I have that one, "Keep On Truckin", "Stake Gives Me Heartburn", and 6 of the 8 Monster Batty Buttons. Good stuff, with "Get Lost" (Creature) being my favorite.

[Hepcat]

"The Mole People" was filmed with a budget of $200,000 by Universal Picture Company and was released to mass critical acclaim in 1956.





Warren published this magazine as a tribute to the film:



Either that or to make a fast buck off the kids who were fans of the flick

[Hepcat]

Here's an Aurora kit I added to my collection a few years ago via Ebay:



I like the Pan-Am logo. How wrong the script writers were about 2001 though! For one thing Pan-Am didn't even make it to the turn of the century.

[Mike Scott]

I like the Pan-Am logo.

I had that kit and the Moon Bus kit, but I really wanted a space station kit! I don't think anybody has ever done one?

[Hepcat]

This kit was first released by Lindberg in either 1952 or 1954 (the info is conflicting) in this box:



A renamed glow version was released by Lindberg in 1976 in this box:



The last package Lindberg used for the kit was this one;



Here is a summary of the kit's history:

Fantastic Plastic Grab Bag

But it was a very cool kit however packaged! Here are some pics of the one I added to my own collection four years ago:





It was  actually the first Lindberg model kit I've ever bought. Moreover, it wasn't even on my radar screen until our own lblambert infected me with his own enthusiasm for it.

[marsattacks666]

Scan of my Ugly Buttons:



Link to an old thread with more info: http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=23453.msg380961#msg380961

I dig these buttons. Why have I never seen them before.
Very cool!

[horrorhunter]

I dig these buttons. Why have I never seen them before.
Very cool!

Thanks, mars. 

Like you, I didn't even know about them until I saw them listed in an eBay auction. I think they've gone under a lot of people's radar, even monster collectors. I bid just high enough to grab them at around 5 bucks each, which I found out later was a pretty good deal. I've been looking to complete the set of 24 but the ones I see for sale are usually in the $20 range. I'm still "on the hunt" though...the problem is I hunt too many things. 

[marsattacks666]

Thanks, mars. 

Like you, I didn't even know about them until I saw them listed in an eBay auction. I think they've gone under a lot of people's radar, even monster collectors. I bid just high enough to grab them at around 5 bucks each, which I found out later was a pretty good deal. I've been looking to complete the set of 24 but the ones I see for sale are usually in the $20 range. I'm still "on the hunt" though...the problem is I hunt too many things. 

I will definitely be on the hunt for these. Thank you for posting the pictures.

[Hepcat]

Here's a good picture of Monster Bob's Elwar Universal Monster button collection:



The 3 1/2" buttons are the common ones marketed through ads in Warren magazines. The small 7/8" buttons may have been vending machine premiums but first hand information on these is yet to be found. They are however marked c. 1970 UNIVERSAL PICTURES on the edges.

[Hepcat]

Captain Atom was a very sci-fi themed atom-age superhero. Here are scans of my earliest Captain Atom comics:

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[Hepcat]

Revell in 1965 launched two wild cool slot car kits with this ad in publications such as Car Model and Boy's Life magazines:



Here are shots of the kits in full Technicolor:





I have the Mr. Gasser in BRM Racer kit. Here are some pics:





The Rat Fink in Lotus Ford slot car kit though has to this point eluded me. I actually had a deal with a comic shop owner in Vancouver to buy one for $100 seventeen years ago but he never sent it after I paid for it. He claimed he knew he had it somewhere but had not been able to find it. He returned my money after about two months. A year later I heard that he ended up selling it to someone else for $250 or so. The bastard!