Jason Adams #3.

Happy Halloween.

This is going out to Old School Sammy and is the first Creature ad. Jason was riding for Santa Monica Airlines prior to Creature. When NHS put SMA on the shelf and moved most of the team to Santa Cruz, Jason went with Ross Pope's new venture. After the break up that led Pope to starting Scarecrow, Jason opted to switch instead of sticking with Creature.

Well played, Chrome Ball.

Vert Is Dead will return on November 8th. It will be stuff from 1996.

Thrasher - April 1995 Volume 15 Number 4

Al Partanen #2.

David Gravette wasn't the first guy on Creature to jump down a big handrail. In fact, all the riders who the young kids think of as vert or park skaters these days had an ad where they were skating a handrail back in the day. Even Chet Childress.

Thanks to the Creature guys for re-linking this stuff on Facebook.

Jeff Kendall stepped off his skateboard and got behind the camera.

Thrasher - November 1996 Volume 16 Number 11

Darren Navarrette #2.

The Vertical Vampire with a kickflip Indy to fakie.

Creature week hasn't been too scary so far compared to what their image looks like now. The older stuff is much more classic comic book style depictions of monsters. I guess this is an example of how things evolve over time.

The photo is by Darin Back.

Thrasher - October 1995 Volume 15 Number 10

Doug Shoemaker.

Tiltmoder Doug takes a pop-shuvit down some big stairs into the fires of Hell. I want to say that he also rode for Consolidated.

Jeff Kendall took the photo.

Thrasher - March 1996 Volume 16 Number 3

Barker Barrett #2.

It's Creature Week!

Creature was started in 1995 by Russ Rope and was backed by NHS. Pope wanted to do something different than what other skateboard companies were doing and went with a vintage horror and monster theme. Interestingly enough, he set up his own distribution instead of using what NHS had already established. Eventually, there were a few differences of opinion and Pope left to start Scarecrow with some of the same riders. NHS kept Creature going at that point and added some new riders.

The original team consisted of Jason Adams, Barker Barrett, Darren Navarrette, Dorian Tucker and Ronnie Marshall. This is the second ad for the company. The first was with Jason Adams.

For the background: Strength - February 2003 Volume 8 Number 2

Thrasher - May 1995 Volume 15 Number 5

Ryan Hickey.

King of New York.

Creature next week for Halloween and then I'm taking a week off.

Of course it's an Ari Marcopoulos' photo.

Thrasher - February 1995 Volume 15 Number 2

Absolute Wheels.

Absolute was a very short lived wheel company by Tum Yeto that had quite a nice team assembled. They also manned up and went with a two page spread instead of the usual quarter to half page ad that most wheel companies start with.

Transworld - November 1995 Volume 13 Number 11