The Monster is a reliable TV pitchman, a Halloween favorite, here making a rare Christmastime appearance. Beautifully done, genu...

If you are a book reader, you never travel alone. That’s the message from Bookish , a promotional website launched in February 2013. Her...

The classic, flattop Frankenstein Monster has been hawking Heineken , Twizzlers , Shinola and all manner of products for some 50 years...

The Frankenstein Monster is an accomplished commercial pitchman, and he’s likely to pull extra duty at Halloween-time. Case in point, he...

A Halloween-time ad from 1997 puts a stitched-up can of Reddi-Wip on the laboratory slab, ready to “ bring your dessert creations to lif...

The Frankenstein Monster has enjoyed a busy and enduring career as an advertising pitchman. Here’s a recent ad for T-Mobile spoofing AT...

Launched in 1980, the advertising series for the Swedish-made, French-owned Absolut vodka brand is the world’s longest running ad campaign, ...

Reading means identifying with characters in a book, becoming someone else, as suggested by this poster, one of a series, promoting the M...

The Frankenstein Monster has been a reliable pitchman through the years, “scaring up” business for everything from candy and beer to shoe ...

Here are two Mexican lobby cards, both from 1958, found on the always entertaining Monster Movie Music , a daily blog stop for me. Hosts...

Following up on my last post , here’s a good look at that early Lugosi/Frankenstein promotional illustration from 1931. Thanks — again! — ...

Here’s a real find. This small, two-color sticker surfaced recently at Hake’s Americana and Collectibles. The auction house description is...

Seventy-seven years ago today, on December 4, in 1931, Frankenstein premiered in New York at the Mayfair Theater. Pictured above is the o...

I bet you thought those neck protrusions were bolts for articulation or electrodes used to juice up The Monster. Now it can be told, they’...

There are few characters, real or fictional, as instantly recognizable and universally beloved as Karloff’s Frankenstein Monster, two cond...