'They came from Innerspace' read the strapline on the adverts for the Micronauts toys and the initial line of vehicles and figures were good, but not necessarily inspirational. A tractor, a space rocket, a motorbike and a tank-like vehicle, plus a robot or two, all piloted by the ubiquitous transparent Time Traveller figures. At first, I found it easy to resist the draw of the toys, having limited funds and being at that funny age when I was compelled to 'put away childish things', but when Star Wars arrived and made it cool to own toys again, I succumbed.
What really tipped my balance was the curious appearance of something so completely unusual in the line and apparently unrelated to the 'space' theme, that I was fascinated. On a routine visit to my fave toys shop 'Hobbies' in Liverpool on the way back from college, I spotted a new figure on the racks of Micronaut toys and was amazed to find that this new toy included what appeared to be an Egyptian Mummy Case. The blurb on the cards was always minimal, but the case was described as a 'time chamber' and the figure sat inside. The figure was a more stylised version of the standard micronaut with a boots and small egyptianate 'wings' to clip on his legs. His head was also sporting a fashionable 'mullet' and a big Hawaii Five-O style quiff!
I couldnt divine what the significance of the egyptian case was and the concept didn't appear in the comic strip for a long time later, but as I had always loved ancient art, I was hooked.
Part of my college course involved a Foundation Art element which included a pottery class. We were encouraged to get creative with clay in whatever way we felt happy with and one of the methods we employed was 'slip casting'. This involved making a mold from an item and then using that to create copies of the item using a thin coating of clay. Shortly after buying the toy, I took the 'mummy case' as I referred to it, into class and used it as the basis of my mold. The tutor was seriously impressed with the toy too and soon after I was churning out clay copies of the original!
The casting was slightly smaller than the original toy, but an almost exact replica - even down to the mock hieroglyphics on the front.
Unfortunately, my artistic enthusiasm meant that these toys were given the treatment too and I decided to decorate the time chamber a bit as I thought it was sadly lacking.. The red one was the very first one I bought and the grey one was bought by my mate and given over to the Wotan Archive much later. The blue is a much more recent and unadulterated edition!
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First, well done with the slip casting, Wote! The result is so good! And I like the painted originals too.
ReplyDeleteNow .... as to the mock hieroglyphs ...
It's a long time since I studied this and my memory is shot to hell, but (puts on glasses and adopts lecturing pose) ...
The middle panel actually does look like a Pharonic prenomen. It's no stretch of the imagination to read it as "Ka Kepheru Ra" (or whatever vowel-consonant variations you want for the transliteration).
I can't recall if that was the prenomen of an actual Pharaoh. I wonder though. It looks right. Remember Tutankhamun's was "Neb Kepheru Ra". Maybe the toy designer saw his and substituted a randomly chosen hieroglyph for "neb"?
Also the bottom panel looks like a stylised version of "Sa Ra" or "Se Re" ... meaning "Son of (the god) Ra". And the birds are facing the sun rising above the horizon.
The rest looks nonsense to me, but the middle and bottom panels do look as if the designer looked at some actual hieroglyphs.
And you say this does eventually appear in the comics? Would like to see that.
ReplyDeleteBTW, nice photos too.
ReplyDeleteHah! Found it ....
ReplyDeleteIt is the prenomen of Sesostris I
Look about a third of the way down the page here and compare it with that middle panel:
http://www.ancient-egypt.org/index.html
Am I good or am I ... erm ... well ... almost competent?
(breaths on fingernails and polishes them on her t-shirt)
ReplyDeleteTHUD - sound of jaw hitting the tabletop in sheer unadulterated admiration!
ReplyDeleteIll fetch out some comics to scan asap, but have to say the case appeared in the story in a stylised version on the molecular planet Aegyptus as I recall. The comic was a real rollercoaster artistically, after Mike Golden did the first few issues, Steve Ditko was wheeled in to do an annual which was heinous and then Howard Chaykin took over for the next few issues and seemed to be working through his lunch while he pencilled. Eventually Pat Broderick took over and it really started cooking..
It was recently revamped by Devils Due and then Image, but never took off. Thats primarily where I am now, trying to get the new issues off ebay!
There were other figures in this particular Microman lineup with an ancient culture theme. There was a figure whose chamber was modeled on an Easter island Statue, a second with a chamber based on the Japanese Dogu clay dolls, and a female figure in a Statue of Liberty inspired chamber. In the Japanese storyline for the figures I seem to recall that they had arrived on Earth first as ancient astronauts ala Chariots of the Gods.
ReplyDeleteI'm feeling pedantic-
ReplyDeleteAgree with most of your reading of the glyphs, Toad,but I think you're stretching it to read the glyph "Ka" into the bottom sign. I think this more likely to be a crude rendering of the "nb" sign, a half oval glyph, and I'd go with your original reading, and see this as a corrupted Nb sign- hence part of nb hprw R', the premnomen of Tutankhamun, which regularly appears in photos, books etc.
I was hoping you'd comment on this, Andy, and I'll bow to your superior knowledge. But, but, but ... I'll just explain my interpretation.
ReplyDeleteMy thought before clicking to see Wote's large-size photo was, "Oh it will just be Tutankhamun's name ... it's ALWAYS Tutankhamun's name." So there was some surprise when it didn't look quite as I'd expected. Hihi ... I actually at the time tried (in my imagination) deforming the bottom glyph into the expected "nb", but failed. I just could not see the expected semi-oval (with three upright "prongs") despite strong expectation.
I've looked again since reading your comment, and what I still see are two semicircular or semi-ovoid arcs. Those arcs end in fringes. I try and try, but I can only see these as a pair of arms ending in hands and fingers. The "arms" are even divided in a fashion not unlike the way the "ka" hieroglyph appears in the better inscriptions. Yes, I admit to having never seen them curved this way in any genuine Egyptian text, but I take it as stylisation by the toy's designer.
I dunno .... I know you must be right, honest I do, but I still see this as "ka" and feel an (admittedly irrational) vindication by dint of finding so easily that Sesostris's prenomen would be a match for that interpretation. (http://tinyurl.com/6jzqnjt). (nods) I do know that is faulty reasoning.
Whichever, whatever ... it's still all very exciting, isn't it? (grins)
ReplyDeleteWell, its inspired lots of text, anyway!
ReplyDeleteThe Egyptians were "raided" for imagery in a number of SF comics, as well as Stargate. Aliens in Dan Dare and Zero X all had variants of Egyptian crowns; I rather like this sort of odd reference in SF.
There is even an Ron Turner cover from a 50s pulp novel with a sphinx on an alien planet.