Elmer Lehnhardt was Aladdin's art director during the 1960s and 1970s and created much of the kit art during that period.

One of TV s first wrestlers out of Chicago, Elmer Lehnhardt became a commercial artist in the late 1940s with instruction from Haddon Sunbloom, creator of the Coca Cola Santa Claus. His talent for rendering likenesses impressed Bob Burton, who hired him to work at his Chicago studio as a finishing artist. It was there, in the early 1950s, he began finishing Aladdin lunch box art for Burton.

When Aladdin moved to Nashville, so did Lehnhardt, acting as a liaison between the company and Burton's studio. In the 1960s, Lehnhardt became Aladdin's art director and worked hard to give Aladdin's box line a competitive edge over KST.

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