VINTAGE AURORA MUMMY 'RELICS'

I never know what I'll find next in the dusty bowels of the Mysterious Mansion. For instance, just the other day I came across an over-sized, crumbling-with-age manila envelope crammed with monster memorabilia such as lobby cards, folded movie posters, etc.

Among the trove was a stack of the original boxes of Aurora monster models and their instruction sheets. Back in the 1960's collecting stuff like this with the understanding that it would actually be worth something was pretty much unheard of. Nevertheless, I thought the box art was so cool I just couldn't bear to toss them in the trash. So, I cut off the side panels and kept the box top with the cool art, never knowing at the time that the artist that did these was the same person who was painting the covers to the Doc Savage books I was reading! In retrospect, it would have been better to cut the corners and lay the whole box top open, but golly, I was just a young Monster Kid!

I did, however, value my models and magazines and such as priceless and I hung on to my models until I was forced to sell them at a yard sale because we sold our house to go on a long road trip in a travel trailer right after I graduated high school. In the meantime, at least I've got these few items as mementos.

NOTE: The following scans are from my collection and are unretouched.