The above is the very best reference guide I've ever seen on the wide mishmash of gumball machine Rat Fink charms that were issued. The Gumball Rat Fink Museum - Ratdaddy Studios Tim Nolan indicates that the vending machine Rat Finks were first produced in 1962 in this reference guide to gumball machine Rat Fink charms: Note also the pointy ears of the ring and vending machine Rat Finks which differ from the rounded ears sported by the iconic Rat Fink which was introduced in the July 1963 issue of Car Craft magazine. I'm surmising therefore that World Wide Gum was by then an independent Canadian confectionery. Goudey had ceased operations in the States in 1962 which was before Cramer's Rat Fink Gum hit vending machines. But World Wide Gum of Granby, Québec was initially the Canadian subsidiary of the Goudey Gum Company which was a competitor of Gum Products, Inc. which was founded in 1940 by Wellington M.
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Postal Service introduced Zip Codes in 1963 and Cramer Gum was still listing its location as Boston 28 on this vending machine card:Ĭramer Gum was a brand name of Gum Products, Inc.
This other Rat Fink gumball machine card suggests that vending machine Rat Finks pre-dated the ones on rings since the U.S. The Rat Fink design thereafter sold by Roth Studios as decals and on T-shirts was Leynnwood's reworked version with slightly simplified R.F. Jack Leynnwood's very slightly reworked Rat Fink subsequently became "Big Daddy" Roth's signature piece. Revell's staff artist Jack Leynnwood then cleaned up the art just a bit by trimming the hair in and around Rat Fink's ears and rounding the "R" for the Revell model kit which was issued just a few months later in 1963: Here it is with coloured pencils applied by our own Weldonmc: The original Rat Fink image may well have been drawn by Carl Kohler before he was supplanted by Wes Bennett as Roth's go-to artist some time in 1963. The iconic Rat Fink image made its first appearance in the July 1963 issue of Car Craft magazine in an ad entitled "The rage in California". A mint never worn/washed one of a popular design from the early 1960's would fetch well over a $1000. What's ironic though is an original "Big Daddy" Roth air brushed T-shirt could now fetch $hundreds depending upon condition. Meanwhile silk-screening was also popular with customers because the wild cool image you saw in the ad was the exact one you got.
Producers liked it because any design could be silk-screened onto a T-shirt in less than a minute by any employee while it would have taken "Big Daddy" Roth himself several minutes to air brush a design on a T-shirt. The silk-screening technology was quickly embraced by both customers and T-shirt producers at the time. Almost all of the designs featured in the ad though had been drawn previously by Wes Bennett: The same ad was featured again in the next two issues. The first ad designed by Newt was for the August 1964 issue #6 of Drag Cartoons. Gasser", "Mother's Worry" and "Genuine Junk Parts" were rendered by Wes Bennett:Įd Newton was then hired by Roth in 1964 both to design show cars and to create magazine ads for Roth's T-shirt line. All the T-shirt designs in the following two ads with the exception of "Rat Fink", "Mr. CARtoons, Hot Rod, Car Craft) was turning "Big Daddy" Roth's designs into far more sophisticated line art renderings. These early finished renderings for silk-screening purposes seem quite crude by later standards:īy late 1963 artist Wes Bennett who did work for Petersen Publications (e.g. Many/most of the designs pictured in the ad below were line art renderings by Carl Kohler who together with Pete Millar had founded CARtoons magazine in 1959. Quote from: Hepcat on July 30, 2020, 04:04:32 PM By early 1963 the T-shirts "Big Daddy" Roth was offering through magazine ads featured standardized images applied to the T-shirts by a silk-screening process.
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