Venture has Adventure Toys

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It's 1975 and even Batman is smiling and he should be, the entire Justice League is on sale!

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[Earth 2 Chris]

That's some nice artwork. The line work almost makes it look like a wood-cut. So its official. We're all ancient.

Chris

[HardyGirl]

Super-Gals are more expensive than Superheroes? Does that mean women are more valuable?

I can clearly remember my dad's girlfriend buying me Big Jack in the Macy's Toy Department when I was around 10. This was after I was drooling over the Mattel toys page in my Ice-Follies program.

[megoscott]

That's seriously nice newspaper art. TheWild Bill on the horse is cool. That WW drawing is fantastic. She and Penguin look like photo tracings but the Batman almost looks like the guy just drew from a sample.

[ScottA]

Now that an ad. Interesting how the Heroes, Gals and Villains are all different prices. I wonder if those Monsters are window boxed or solid boxed.

[Donkey Hoatie]

Man, I used to love going to Venture back in the day. They always had awesome sales on Atari 2600 cartridges.

[jwyblejr]

The Apes were more money than the other Mego stuff? That's kinda kooky.

[palitoy]

The Apes were more money than the other Mego stuff? That's kinda kooky.

Actually, when Neal Kublan explained getting the Ape license to me, he said Mego had to offer signifigantly more than AHI to get it. So I guess we all paid for it in the end.

[knight errant00]

I can still remember going in to Venture and seeing a whole shelf of carded (or whatever the not-box packaging is called) batcopters, batcycles, and batmobiles. Took me 25 years to finally get a batcopter . . .

And what a great ad!

[Wee67]

Is this the first example of Mego's Western figures being advertised? I don't remmeber seeing them in print.

[vulcan2074]

That ad totally rocks.
Sammy

[livnxxxl]

Ahh Yes, Good old Venture. I remember going there with the parents many, many moons ago. I actually went to one when it was closing here in STL. It was kind of a bitter sweet deal. While I hated to see another vintage store close and go out of business I did enjoy buying up some of their shelving, pegs and other misc. store stuff in a going out of business auction. Some where around here I think I even have a couple of their old tagging guns with rolls of unused price tags in a tote stashed away.

I said/typed this before, but I will type it again. I love looking at vintage ads/pictures of toys. Especially Mego's.

[Meule]

Oh, you just gotta love that art

[saildog]

I love seeing these old ads!!!

Obviously, it's all about the toys, but for me, there is another set of memories that these ads set off.

I got to go to work for a local paper when I was in Grade Six and the Publisher was this great guy who let me learn every phase of the Small Town Newspaper. Anyway, I can look at an ad like this and see what went into making it. I'm sure the many folks on the board who geek out about Graphic Arts can remember seeing or at least studying the old paste-up technique and clip-art books that were used to create the ads from that time frame.

[jwyblejr]

Actually, when Neal Kublan explained getting the Ape license to me, he said Mego had to offer signifigantly more than AHI to get it. So I guess we all paid for it in the end.

I think what's throwing me off is the prices between the Apes and Monsters. But I do get what your saying.