Mexican Lobby Card:
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Interestingly, the Mexican lobby card for I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) is titled The Son of Frankenstein, El Hijo De Frankenstein.
Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards
Mexican Lobby Card: Satan’s Satellites (1958)
Here's the Mexican lobby card for the feature version of Zombies of the Stratosphere, Satan's Satellites (1958). I fell in love with this movie immediately seeing that cool space outfit Marex (Lane Bradford) is wearing. One of Leonard Nimoy's first screen appearances, as another alien, is to be found here, too.
Mexican Lobby Card: Robot Monster
Here's another version of the Mexican lobby card for Robot Monster, El Monstruo De Marte. The lobby cards are definitely much more exciting than the movie. I'm guessing the inset scene shows the gorilla with the rabbit ears–you youngin's go google "rabbit ears"–choking some poor actor who realized this movie was really really bad and wanted out. But with a few Red's Apple Ale (or any suitable hard cider of your choice), this movie's a wild hoot of fun (on a par with Spookies or The Video Dead).
Mexican Lobby Card: El Gorila Blanco
Okay, I’m not quite getting this Mexican lobby card for El Gorila Blanco. I’m assuming it’s for White Pongo (1945). But being a movie shot in 1945, the illustrations and carefully coiffed hair to breasts coverage doesn’t jive for that time period. Or maybe I’ve not watched enough movies from that decade and I’m wrong. Whatever, the lobby has a gorilla and a girl (or girls to be precise) so it’s in my closet. I like weird sh*t like that.
Blood of the Virgins Lobby Card
Why is it always the poor virgins getting victimized? And why does “Erotomania” added to any horror movie compel us to see it? Burning questions I have no answers for. Great highbrow tagline: “A mature person’s trip through the ultimate in horrific wickedness.”
Mexican Lobby Card:
The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
The older movies had this thing with girls and gorillas. Beats me why. And because I know you're dying to see it, here's The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini pressbook. You can thank me later.
Mexican Lobby Card:
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Or is it Revenge of the Creature? This Mexican lobby card is a bit confusing. The top illustration is from Revenge of the Creature, but the bottom shows The Creature Walks Among Us. And the title, El Monstruo Vengador, doesn't quite match up with the English title beneath.
Mexican Lobby Card: Tobor the Great (1954)
An odd Mexican lobby card, this one. Tobor El Magnifo originally was released through Republic, with the Republic seal and distro information printed on the card. You'll notice this card has the seal blacked out (bottom right), and the distro information blacked out (bottom center) and reassigned to Distribuidora Sotomayor. What's very interesting is that the changes were made and the card reprinted. Even the paper used, a nicely textured and less acidic paper stock, seems a more expensive choice than the usual cheaper pulpy kind. When I first received this card, I thought it was a knock-off, but now I'm thinking it's a re-issued printing (which happens a lot) for the new distributor's run of the movie. But unlike other cards I've seen, this distributor actually spent more money to reprint the lobby with their information, rather than simply marker out the previous info by hand.
Mexican Lobby Card:
Santo vs. La Invasion De Los Marcianos
Santo flexes his muscles again in Santo vs. La Invasion De Los Marcianos (1966), and this Mexican lobby card shows a lot of muscle too.
Mexican Lobby Card: Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
I'm not sure if this was used as a lobby card, window card, or theater handout. The paper is glossy and thin and there's a space below the image to add theater information. Window cards have the space, but usually it's larger, positioned at the top, and the card's paper stock would be thick and rigid. However it was used, you can't beat robots and monsters doing a smackdown with Godzilla.
Mexican Lobby Card: Superman Flies Again
Okay, so what if my buddy Steven and me pinned pillowcases to our backs and played George Reeves' Superman when we were kids? We didn't jump off of tall buildings, but we did bound around a lot on the porch steps. My mom drew the line when I embellished my pillowcase with the Superman insignia. Not even Lex Luthor was that mean. Then Adam West's Batman hit television and off I went again, but this time I had a plastic, store-bought, Caped Crusader cape. By then my buddy had moved away, but Batman was a loner anyway, so I did okay.