Junior Series
Two titles, from 1976:
Picturama Junior Series
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 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.
Caution: the links 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.
- 1975:
- 1: Custer's Last Stand (7420/1) — taken from the Red Super Action Transfers set General Custer GK10
- 2: Retreat from Moscow (3012) — taken from the Yellow Super Action Transfers set The Retreat from Moscow GK33
- 3: The Alamo — unknown — taken from the Yellow Super Action Transfers set Battle of the Alamo GK29
- 4: American Civil War Ambush (3014) — taken from the Blue Super Action Transfers set American Civil War GK125
- 5: Pirates of the Spanish Main (3015) — taken from the Blue Super Action Transfers set Spanish Armada GK124
- 6: Battle in Outer Space (3016) — taken from the Blue Super Action Transfers set War In Space GK123
- 1976:
- 7: Battle For Arnhem Bridge (3035) — GK236/5
- 8: Raid On St. Nazaire (3036) — GK236/6
- 9: Sink The Tirpitz (3034) — GK236/4
- 10: The Lost Continent (3046) — GK236/1 (or GK236/3)
- 11: Antarctic Expedition (3044) — GK236/3 (or GK236/1)
- 12: Captain Cook's Last Voyage (3045) — GK236/2
We haven't seen anything of No.3 "The Alamo", so its image doesn't appear below & we haven't given it a page.
1: Custer's Last Stand
2: Retreat from Moscow
4: American Civil War Ambush
5: Pirates Of The Spanish Main
6: Battle in Outer Space
7: Battle for Arnhem Bridge
8: Raid on St Nazaire
9: Sink the Tirpitz
10: The Lost Continent
11: Antarctic Expedition
12: Captain Cook's Last Voyage