Gestern Wars Promotional Piece

Fantastic Update courtesy of Jens Knappman today who was kind enough to scan this rare German leaflet for the Lion Rock Gestern Wars series but also translated the whole thing for us as well. It's a really neat look at foreign marketing many of us haven't seen before:

1939 - 1945
GESTERN WAR'S.
When the world was ablaze. The second World- War was at rage. Nearly all countries of the world were involved in this war.

Today no sensible statesman would chose the war as a means of politics. Too large were the suffers and casualties of the recent war, too powerful and deadly are modern destructive weapons. 55 million dead people and immense destruction remind us to not forget the past.

Everyone who wants to know how the world in which we are living now was created, how todays political systems and borders developed, will not get around learning about the most extensive military conflict in the history of the world.

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Monkey Around With These.....

Terrific Mego Ad from Marvel's "Planet of the Apes Magazine" Issue #4. For more Mego Advertising and Articles, check out our Ad Archive at the Mego Library.

Toy Sale at K-Mart! Mego Comic Book Heroes $3.38

Sadly people this sale ended December 9th, 1978.

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Mego Action Jackson Ad from 1972

Our Mego Advertising Archive gets a new addition today in the form of this 1972 article about the upcoming Action Jackson Scramble cycle. This is an early piece of Mego history and shows the growing company's expanding creativity.

Please check out the Mego Museum Action Jackson Galleries for more information on Mego's first 8" Action Figure.

1973 World's Greatest Superheroes Ad

This great black and white ad featuring the orignal four Mego World's Greatest Superheroes is courtesy of Rob Kelly and was in a December 1973 issue of Creepy. If you're into Black and White Comic Magazines, check out the terrific blog All in black and white for 75 cents