Alan Tyler, who also designed He-Ro and Eldor, drew Tytus. His early version has blank white eyes, very little costume and a choice of weapons, a short club or a clawed tool for catching enemies, all in silver, blue and yellow with a metal headband, metal boots and long blond hair; a later pass gave him human eyes, more clothing and red gems where the yellow had been. The final concept, cropped hard in Dark Horse's 2015 book The Art of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, puts a "G" for Grayskull on his chest, from the time when the subline's young hero was still named Grayskull, before he became He-Ro.[3]
The weapon changed on the way to the factory. Larry Renger had shown a claw at a product conference, and David Wolfram, the Mattel artist who redesigned it, told Battle Ram the claw would never have worked on the toy, so he built what he called a "lobster trap" instead. William George painted the front of the window box, and Errol McCarthy drew Tytus beside He-Ro in a piece that may have been meant for the 1987 Style Guide, though Tytus never made it into the guide.
[3] ^ Battle Ram also reproduces an early factory sample, believed to have been shown at a Power-Con panel, in a photo shared by Mantisaur82: it has flared multicolored hair, furry trunks and a harness with Grayskull insignia, colored gold, silver and gray.
