Halloween: horror comics, fiendish ads and petrifying posters!

Posted on October 31, 2015 by The Vintage Toy Advertiser

Come celebrate Halloween with TVTA as we dig out our Don Post masks and get stuck into some fiendish meat snacks while perusing some ghastly comic covers, posters and ads!

France. Pif Gadget reprint. 1976. Extrait de l’album “100 ans d’affiches de la magie.” Copyright Darien House et Henri Veyrier.

US. Star Wars comic 14. 1978.

US. Jonah Hex 8. 1978.

US. Starlog. 1980.

US. House of Mystery. Cover by Joe Kubert. 1982.

US. Baron Weirwulfs Haunted Library. Cover by Don Newton. 1975.

US. The Unexpected. By Lee Elias and Bill Dennehy. 1972.

US. The Many Ghosts of Doctor Graves. Cover by Steve Dikto. 1969.

UK. The Flintstones and Friends. 1988.

France. Scop #5. 1977.

UK. Count Duckula #14. 1989.

US. The Unexpected. 1972.

UK. 2000 AD Monthly #77. 1992.

Japan. Beetlejuice Chirashi poster.

Japan. Godzilla chirashi movie poster.

Shocker poster from The Phantom comic 1989. US.

Poster Des loups et des Hommes from PIf Gadget. France.

1983 Airfix catalogue France

Posted on October 22, 2015 by The Vintage Toy Advertiser

This 1983 French market catalogue for the famous Airfix brand is full of eighties model-making goodness from Star Wars to Dukes of Hazzard to the Fall Guy to space themes, nature and racing cars. The following scans are a non-exhaustive look at just some of the pages from this great catalogue.

Airfix catalogue French edition 1983 cover

Airfix catalogue French edition 1983 back cover

Airfix catalogue French edition 1983

1979/80 Miro-Meccano Games Catalogue

Posted on October 20, 2015 by The Vintage Toy Advertiser

This French catalogue by the Miro-Meccano company features many well known board games that were popular not just in France but worldwide. The cover of the catalogue can be translated as Discover, rediscover Miro-Meccano games. Featured on the cover and throughout the pages is superhero brainy type character Miro who presents each game and holds in his hands themed elements such as cards, die and playing pieces. There is no date on the catalogue but going by other adverts I have I would place this around 1979/1980.

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Front and back cover.

Super Mastermind

Strawberry Shortcake

Cluedo

Monopoly

Jeannot Lapin

Maya L’abeille

Boggle

La Bonne Paye

Risk

Badaboum

Can’t Stop

Le Cinq Neuf

Canon Noir

Diplomacy

Mes Premiere Mots

Chip-Away sculpting sets

Posted on October 15, 2015 by The Vintage Toy Advertiser

This 1972 advert from toy giant Kenner presents a comic strip view of their sculpting product Chip-Away Sets. You simply ‘chipped away’ at the soft outer layer of your block to reveal the pre-sculpted figure hidden inside! Once the outer layer is removed the figure is ready to paint with brushes and paints included in the set.

US. The Unexpected. 1972.

Chip-Away set as seen in the 1972 French Meccano catalogue général.

Chip-Away. France. 1972.

1983 Star Wars Bookmarks by Random House

Posted on October 4, 2015 by The Vintage Toy Advertiser

This Return of the Jedi bookmark set, made by Random House in 1983, is one of my favourite collectables and manages to tick three themes I love: Star Wars, books and art. I think the stylish artwork on this full set has a certain art nouveau element as well as comic book style. I’ve tried to research the artist(s) responsible but have had no luck and can only guess it was done by in-house artists employed by Random House – one of the largest trade book publishers in the world.