MOON DOCTOR, DOCTOR MOON - DAIYA - JAPAN

A comical lithographed tinplate wind up robot doctor character with exaggerated red glasses. Paddle foot. Metallic blue with a round head and red paddle feet.

Two versions exist: one has a lithographed panel depicting complex machinery on the front and is marked X-25 on the back. It comes in a portrait format box showing Dr Moon on a spaceship.

The other version has a plainer, deeper blue chest panel depicting a safe door with the wording Doctor Moon. The box for this version has a landscape format and shows Dr Moon as a crazy surgeon at an operating table.

A newspaper advertisement dates this to October 1964.