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Mickey Spillane's I, the Jury, the 1953 Harry Essex 3-D (3D; 3-Dimension) mystery crime thriller ("Now! His first motion picture blasts you out of your seat with its NAKED FURY!"; "All its man-woman violence shatters the screen!"; "So raw... So big... So full of naked fury ...IT HAD TO BE FILMED IN 3-D"; "The dynamite 3-D thriller!"; "Now! His first motion picture blasts you out of your seat in all-thrill 3-Dimension!"; "That Mickey Spillane Fury... SHATTERING! Those Mickey Spillane Women...SENSATIONAL! The Mickey Spillane Thrills... SEARING!"; "The Dynamite Thriller!"; "For the first time... That Mickey Spillane violence dynamites the screen with Thrills and Fury"; "Now! Mickey Spillane dynamites the screen with thrills and fury!"; "Now! Mickey Spillane dynamites the screen in 3-Dimension"; "For the first time... That Mickey Spillane violence blasts out of the screen at you in 3-Dimension!"; "The dynamite thriller!"; "Written for the Screen and Directed by Harry Essex"; based on the classic novel by Mickey Spillane) starring Biff Elliott (billed as "introducing Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer"), Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, Alan Reed, Joe Besser, and Paul Dubov. Note that Mickey Spillane was a department store salesman in 1940 when he discovered he could sell stories for comic books, and he quickly wrote for all the major companies. After Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Air Force and became a fighter pilot. After the war, he wrote "I, the Jury" in 19 days, and it was published in 1947, and it sold 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Its hero, Mike Hammer, a hard-boiled private eye, would appear in many more novels. Spillane would write for the movies, and he even played Mike Hammer in "The Girl Hunters" in 1963!
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Important Added Info: Note that this lobby card has been personally autographed (signed) by Mickey Spillane! Our consignor obtained this autograph through the mail in correspondence with Mr. Spillane. Also note that this movie was originally in 3-D. The studios created both 3D and 2D posters and lobby cards (the 2-D posters and lobby cards were for theaters that lacked the 3-D equipment). This lobby card is from the "2-D" release.

Note that this item was consigned to us by a man who (together with his wife) has been a collector and dealer in autographs for decades! Over those years they obtained a huge number of autographed items through the mail, and they also attended events where they could obtain autographs in person, and they also set up as dealers at collectible shows, where they would buy autographs and sell and trade some of their own. Over the years, they developed friendships with some of the celebrities they obtained autographs from, sometimes acquiring memorabilia of a particular celebrity that they would send to them as a gift, as a thank you for you the many autographs they obtained (in many cases, the items are personalized to either our consignor, or to his wife, or to both of them). If we know any information about how this specific item was obtained, it is written above. But in general, we feel it is quite likely that the autograph on this item is authentic, but our consignor does not have a certificate of authenticity.

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