Talk about a blast of nostalgia! Up for bid at Heritage Auctions are these original paintings used for the art on those monster wallets and vacuform plaques we saw ads for (and maybe even some of you purchased them) in FAMOUS MONSTER OF FILMLAND way back in the 1960's. They were manufactured by Standard Plastics Products, Inc., based in South Plainfield, New Jersey, apparently now a Superfund Site!
Each piece is painted on 8.5" x 12" illustration board (maybe gouache or acrylics?) with the image measuring 6.75" x 9". Unfortunately, the artist is not identified, but whoever it was took inspiration from a certain Aurora model box painter. Being auctioned singly, at the time of this writing, each one has bids over $1,000.
Note: As mentioned, if you take a closer look at these, you'll notice that they come pretty close to the images painted by James Bama for the Aurora monster model kit box art, especially The Wolfman!
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