1,700th post

Dick Findley

More first impressions

John Murphy

All but one of these early appearances are in variety albums, meaning Mizer chose a more formal mode of introduction. The exception is in Gene Meyer and Pepper Gomez’s V catalogue, where the well-known bodybuilder Malcolm Brenner tussles with Meyer.

Malcolm Brenner and Gene Meyer

Ben Sorensen

Duke Cannon

Dick Findley

Fife vs. Feniello

Not the prettiest scans, but here is an example of an inadvertent switch in the AMG Thousand Model Directory that has led collectors astray. No doubt as part of the layout phase, when strips of type were laid down to identify the images, the left and right photos were swapped: Walt Fife is on the top left, Jerry Feniello on the top right; Dick Findley is on the bottom left, and Glenn Forde on the bottom right. 

As usual, the references to pages in the catalogues themselves will sort it out, but the Directory is so helpful, and so readily available, that it is often the default resource when seeking to identify models. Still, Bob Mizer was winging it a lot of the time, and he often renames models — though not, as here, a complete change of identity.