Wallace & Co. Poster	Marshall Good poster
Condello poster	60's Buttons
Guggy's Restaurant Glass	Kersten Bros. Comic
Ladmo T-Shirts	Coloring Book
Critters written by Wallace	Legend City Coloring Book
Super Rare Hub Kapp T-Shirt sold at Drive-In's	Captain Super Poster Mid 1960's

The 1960's
The 1960's brought an expanded cast of characters to the show. The Kersten Brothers, Rick and Pete, would lend their considerable artistic talents to an expanding product line.

The Arizona State Fair and the various Wallace & Ladmo Drive-Ins provided venues for the sale of new products. A series of red and white buttons with black Kersten Bros. lettering appeared. The Kersten Bros. also produced a black and white poster for the newly-named Wallace & Company show. They also drew the border around a bright orange Captain Super poster that came out in the mid 1960s. The dimensions of this poster was 18 x 24 ½ inches.

Rick and Pete Kersten produced some of the rarest posters to be found today. A beautiful poster featuring Mike Condello was made for a State Fair appearance in 1965, and small posters featuring Captain Super, Marshall Good and Ladmo decorated the show set and were available to the public as well. These posters measured 11 x 17 inches. Two black and white posters were made from cast photos. These measured approximately 16 x 24 inches.

The Kerstens also produced a compilation of their Wallace and Ladmo cartoons in a paperback book and the rare Wallace and Ladmo Coloring Book. Wallace also wrote a book called Critters that featured Wizard-like one-liners and was illustrated by the Kerstens.

In 1968, local Guggy’s Restaurants sold a special Wallace and Ladmo glass with a drawing of the principal characters around the outside of the glass.

The late 60's also featured the debut of the Ladmo tie t-shirts that were sold at the Wallace & Ladmo Drive-Ins as well as the fair. They were often included in Ladmo Bags. The shirts came in two colors, white and yellow. The tie design was in orange, black and red (as drawn by the Kersten Brothers).

Give-Away Photos
KPHO-TV Channel 5 always provided a large number of inexpensive cast photos to be given away to in-studio and stage show audiences. After the introduction of the Ladmo Bag, these photos (printed on everyday paper) were inserted into the bags. Here is the most complete known collection of Wallace & Ladmo promotional give-away photos:

Cast Photo 1955	Cast Photo 1956	Cast Photo 1963 with Harvey and Gerald
Cast Photo 1965 with Mike Condello	Cast Photo 1968 with Captain Super	Cast Photo 1970
Rare Ladmo Bag Giveaway Photo, 1971	Cast Photo 1975	Cast Photo 1981 with Dan Horn
Cast Photo 1983	Cast Photo 1985 with Dan, Cathy, and Craig	Cast Photo 1989

The 30th Anniversary Show

Anniversary Shirt Ad		7-11 Cup Ladmo
30th Anniversary Shirt		7-11 Cup Wallace, Ladmo, Gerald
30th Anniversary Coke		7-11 Cup Pat Characters
35th Anniversary Shirt		Hand fans from 35th Anniversary Show

A milestone was reached in 1984 with the show’s 30th anniversary. A 90 minute, prime-time special aired in April of that year. In conjunction with the show, a 30th Anniversary t-shirt was sold by Channel 5 through ads in TV Guide.

Local Coca-Cola bottlers also came out with a special 30th Anniversary Coke can that promoted a contest in which families could win trips to Washington, D.C.

The Southland Corporation, owners of the 7-11 chain of convenience stores, came out with three different plastic Slurpee cups that featured color drawings of the characters from the show.

 

The 35th Anniversary Show

Part of the festivities for the show’s 35th anniversary in 1989, the gang held a huge stage show at Encanto Park. Channel 5 sold several different items at the show; 35th Anniversary Show t-shirts, hats, and two different color fans for the Wallace Watchers in attendance to show their approval of Ladmo and disapproval of Gerald.

Wallace and Ladmo Figurines

In the mid 1980's Wallace and Andy Masich (Director of the Arizona Historical Society, Central Arizona Division) formed "Gorton Toy Soldiers." They cast and painted military miniatures from many different countries and eras. In 1989, David R. Bills began sculpting and casting Wallace and Ladmo figurines. Wallace was an occasional painter for these figurines, with David being the main artist. There were initially 14 different figurines. Today the number has more than doubled. These figurines were sold through Wallace's company (which is no longer in business) and on the internet.

Boffo the Clown, Captain Super, Gerald, The Wizard, Wallace figurines

Marshall Good, Mr. Grudgemeyer with Ladmo, 1950's Ladmo and Wallace figurines

Figurines with the green background were painted by Craig Dingle and the brown background by David R. Bills.