Credits Introduction Realm of Rubber Dinosaurs banner constructed with the assistance of flamingtext.com Paperback cover art by Ray Sternbergh, from Pyramid Books Search Engine Report Detail of a Tylosaurus - taken from a painting by Zdenek Burian in Prehistoric Animals by Dr. Josef Augusta (Spring Books, no date). A series of large-format books appeared in English circa 1960. All were basically the work of Dr Joseph Augusta, and were illustrated by Zdenek Burian. They were translated from Czech by Greta Horn or Margot Schierl, and published by Spring House or Paul Hamlyn. The books were Prehistoric Animals Prehistoric Sea Monsters The Age of Monsters A Book of Mammoths Prehistoric Reptiles and Birds Prehistoric Man The material in these books has been rearranged and republished many times since. Zdenek Burian seems to be something of a national hero of Czechoslovakia, and is much better known there than in the outside world. I rank him up with Charles R Knight and Rudolph Zallinger as the painters primarily responsible for most of our ideas of what dinos looked like. Most appearances of Burian paintings on this site are credited where they appear. Realm of Louis Marx Photo of Louis Marx figure of Louis Marx taken from Small Wonder - Worlds in a Box, text by David Corey, photos by David Levinthal, ©1996 National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. The book gives no information whatever about this figure. Marx mold number information is from Dana Cain and Mike Fredericks, Dinosaur Collectibles. 1999, Antique Trader Books. MPC7, Marx Tyrannosaurus Details from Age of Reptiles and Age of Mammals by Rudolph Zallinger, Yale Peabody Museum and Life Magazine versions. The Age of Reptiles is a 110-foot mural at the Yale Peabody Museum, painted between 1943 and 1947. It runs from right to left, depicting interesting plants and animals in sequence from the Devonian to the Cretaceous. In 1952, Life arranged for Zallinger to illustrate parts of its series, The World We Live In. The gatefold magazine version of Age of Reptiles is very similar to the Peabody mural, except that most of the Devonian is lopped off, and the remainder is flipped right-to-left. It is not simply flipped photographically, as is immediately apparent from Zallinger's signature. I believe that the magazine photo was taken from one of Zallinger's many smaller preliminary studies for the mural. Two other Zallinger prehistoric paintings appeared in the World We Live In - a World of Mammals, similar in spirit and layout to the Age of Reptiles mural, and a marine scene with a Kronosaurus, an Elasmosaurus, an Ichthysaurus, a Pteranodon, some belemnites, a Xiphactinus, etc. The World We Live In was a huge hit, and has been reprinted - with several minor changes from the magazine version - several times by Time/Life, in either a large single volume edition or as a slightly smaller three volume set. There may be other editions I haven't seen. At least one of the Chesley Bonestell space and planetery paintings was redone in a doubtless futile attempt to "update" it, but I don't believe that the Zallinger paintings were modified. The Peabody eventually got its own Age of Mammals mural. Zallinger painted it between 1961 and 1967. Unlike the Age of Reptiles, it is radically different from the 1953 Life version. There are small pieces of these various Zallinger works scattered here and there throughout this site. Most, maybe all - Mr Memory is none too sure - of these fragments are from the Life versions. To Realm of Rubber Dinosaurs To Site Index