From Zombos' Closet

Mexican Lobby Card: Munster, Go Home! (1966)

Here's the lively Mexican lobby card for Munster, Go Home!, Los Adorables Monstruos.

Mexican Lobby Card: Stranger from Venus (1954)

Here's the Mexican lobby card for Stranger from Venus (1954), Venus Nos Ataca. A little rough in its transition from left to right, the card's illustration elements are a bit confusing as to what this movie is about. The movie is also known as Immediate Disaster.

Mexican Lobby Card: Missile to the Moon (1958)

A big spider, rock guys, and moon maidens in distress. Must be the 1950s. Not the rip-off done with the illustration in the top right corner. I like the addition of the bubble helmet though. I recall the Flash Gordon model kit came with a bubble helmet. The kit didn't come with a fair maiden clinging to his side, though. Now that would have been some model kit.

Mexican Lobby Card: Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

One of my favorite serials as well as lobby cards. This Mexican lobby card version for Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), Un Viaje a Marte, is exciting. Great illustration and the movie scene matches the illustration in the top right corner. Perfect.

Mexican Lobby Card: Korea Patrol (1951)

Kinetic illustration with heavily shadowed combatants contrasted against a bright color make this Mexican lobby card for Patrulla Koreana  a romanticized art piece for the ugly actions of war. (See an alternate version, Los Tigres De Korea.)

Mexican Lobby Card: Urubu (1948)

Here's a luridly illustrated Mexican lobby card for Urubu (aka Urubu, The Vulture People). Menacing, almost silhouetted people, a bosomy white girl in dire danger (and let's not forget the skimpy, inappropriate clothing, for jungle hiking), make this a memorable lobby. The movie is probably a boring jungle documentary so they had to spice it up somehow.

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Mexican Lobby Card: El Pantano Siniestro

Mexican Lobby Card: Tres Horas Para Morir (1954)

Mexican Lobby Card: Bandoleros De Texas (1941)

Mexican Lobby Card: Tres Horas Para Morir (1954)

Here's the Mexican lobby card for Three Hours to Kill, with Dana Andrews and Donna Reed. Nice, action-packed layout, comfortably balanced across the corners with an eye-catching color arrangement. Within a second or two, you know who the leads are (note the two-pistol packing cowboy at top left, in the background, and Donna Reed and Dana Andrews in the foreground), and the potential trouble stirring things up (left and right at bottom, and the inset scene). A sophisticated, well thought through card.

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Movie Herald: The Abominable Snowman (1957)

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Mexican Lobby Card: Crepusculo En Las Sierras (1950)

Here's the Mexican lobby card for Roy Rogers' Twilight in the Sierras (1950).

Mexican Lobby Card: Santo Contra Los Secuestradores

I found this Mexican lobby card for Santo Contra Los Secuestradores (1973) primitive in its layout, but still effective. Hints of action, villains, and women with and without guns.  Looks like fun to me.

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Mexican Lobby Card: El Pantano Siniestro

Mexican Lobby Card: Bandoleros De Texas (1941)

Mexican Lobby Card: Gigantes Planetarios (1965)

Mexican Lobby Card: El Gorila Blanco (1945)

A fantastic Mexican lobby card for White Pongo (1945). Could this be the missing link between man and ape?! Nah. Just a man in a gorilla suit. But I'll keep searching for you. Ray "Crash" Corrigan plays the ape. Naturally. Aguirre Tinoco drew the ape in his distinctive artistic style. 

Conquistador De La Luna (1960) Mexican Lobby Card

How can you not love this goofy Mexican lobby card for Conquistador De La Luna (1960). Here's a variation of it that's not as colorful.

Mexican Lobby Card: El Complice De Las Sombras

Here's the Mexican lobby card for The Prowler (1951).