I found this image on the web back in 2000. I wish I could credit it, but I have no idea where I found it. I used it because it still had the "Universal Pictures Presents" text above the name; the Moebius re-issue is missing the lettering.

Interestingly, the film was made by Paramount, not Universal. In the Fifties, Paramount sold all of its 30s films to Universal, but this one had already been acquired by MGM in 1940, who at the time were producing an inferior version of "Jekyll and Hyde" with Spencer Tracy; they wanted to see this version buried.

So Universal never had a right to license this title. Hope Aurora didn't pay them too much back in 1965.

This is my 2023 buildup of Moebus' re-pop of Aurora's "Jekyll and Hyde":

Additionally, it has a bookcase and a floor extension by Night Owl Models that can be found here:

https://www.culttvmanshop.com/Jekyll-as-Hyde-base-from-Night-Owl-Models_p_631.html

And what a difference this simple bookcase makes! Here's the model as Aurora produced it originally, though I set it up differently than the instructions called for:

This model didn't sell well in the sixties. It was just too simple and too awkward. It was also VERY difficult to assemble; whoever re-engineered this at Moebius Models has my undying gratitude. They put guides on the inside for you to glue the shirt front to the pants, the pants assembly to the lab coat, and the head to the shirt-top. I remember losing my mind trying to get it to stay together when I was a kid. If this engineer had been working at Aurora in 1964, I would have turned out to be a much more well-adjusted adult. As it is, however....

 

Here's a close-up. It doesn't look like any Jekyll or Hyde that I know of, but I like it anyway.

 

Love the table! I was going for an Edwardian-steampunk color scheme, so I used lots of different browns and ivories on this kit. I hardly used any pure black or white at all.

 

The nameplate is brown with metallic bronze lettering. I was pleasantly surprised at how well the bronze covered, especially when compared to the metallic silver from the same company.

And I LOVE the spats on Jekyll...

 

 

This, my earlier Jekyll/Hyde model, is a resin reproduction by RetroResin, with extra flasks and books and a different head. RetroResin produced it as a labor of love in the 1990s since Polar Lights wasn't interested in reproducing it in styrene for the masses.

 

Another great Bama painting lost to the ages because of the "glow-in-the-dark" paint - overs.