Frank N. Stein Does His Thingy

An illustration of a Frankenstein with buck tooth with red text above it and black text below it. Everything is set on a yellow background. 

The Frankenstein character can refer to Frankenstein the mad scientist or Frankenstein's creation the monster. The name and characters were created by Mary Shelley, one of the first women writers of science fiction and horror, in 1818. Frank N. Stein is a play on the name often used to make the monster character more personable and separate him from the scientist. Several roadside attractions, cafes, and on screen references have all utilized this shorter name in order to avoid any copyright issues with Shelley's work specifically, but to take inspiration from it by using an original depiction of the monster, now a commonly known horror character.

Creative House Productions Inc. originated in 1964 and was a design and manufacturing company based in Chicago, Illinois. It was responsible for the creation of many promotional comic pins found in gumball machines and Cracker Jack boxes. Creative House eventually created the brand PinMart, which became the first website to sell lapel pins. PinMart eventually outgrew its parent company and bought Creative House in 2008.