Remus Picturama Action Library and Junior Series

Junior Series

Two titles, from 1976:

Action Library Series

Remus was the toy division of Mars, the confectionery manufacturers. Evidently they thought transfer sets would make a good addition to their varied line of toys.

The first three sets are subtitled "Action Library Series: Historic Battles", but the last two words are dropped subsequently. Perhaps Remus had in mind other Action Library Series, had the first sets been a runaway success.

The address on the first set is given as: "Remus Play-Kits, PO Box No. I6, Halifax, Yorks, England"; on the others, it is "Remus Play-Kits, P.O. Box 47, Slough, SL1 4LS, England".

The 1975 run of six titles had transfer sheets that were cut-down reprints of earlier Super Action Transfer sheets — with the bottom pair (including the serial number) of the six panels originally provided on the sheet, trimmed off. The full sheets would have been too many transfers for the shorter Picturama backgrounds.

As you can imagine, Peter Archer was not too happy about this botched re-use of his artwork. One can't help wondering, by the way, what happened to all those transfer sheet remnants!

However, Remus got their act together the next year, & those six sets are original.

Remus' product codes start out as 7420/1, etc., but then switch to 3012 (up to 3045, but with not all numbers represented). Possibly the two numbering systems are entirely interchangeable.

Caution: the links below on the left take you to the Remus Picturama set, as you'd expect, but the darker links on the right take you to the sets from which their transfers were derived.