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Buck Rogers, the 1939 Ford Beebe & Saul A. Goodkind science fiction (sci-fi) action adventure fantasy serial ("The New Universal presents 'Buck Rogers'"; "12 amazing thrill-thronged chapters" "Based on the Buck Rogers newspaper feature owned and copyrighted by John F. Dille Co."; "Original Cartoon Strip by Dick Calkins and Phil Nowlan") starring Buster Crabbe (billed as "Larry Crabbe"; in the title role as Buck Rogers), Jackie Moran, Constance Moore (as Wilma Deering), Anthony Warde, C. Montague Shaw, William Gould, Philson Ahn, Roy Barcroft, and Wheeler Oakman
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Important Added Info: Note that this 1939 first release pressbook is extremely rare. We have never auctioned it before! Also note that when studios would prepare pressbooks they would often include a sample of the herald. Most often, the herald is no longer still with the pressbook. Sometimes, the herald by itself will sell for almost as much as the rest of the entire pressbook! This pressbook contains an Australian herald (NOT the U.S. herald that originally came in the pressbook), which is pictured next to the pressbook below. Also note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Almost every Academy Award winning movie would have a special "Academy Award winner" supplement. Note that we have provided several images from this pressbook, always including the cover and the poster pages, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut!

UPDATED 03/04/2019: Note that we inadvertently had 1940 as the date when this pressbook is from the first release in 1939.

Note that we are auctioning 74 pressbooks in this Part II of our March Major Auction. 62 of those come from a single collector who was attempting to assemble EVERY pressbook from movie serials that were based on either comic book or comic strip characters, and he spent many decades doing so, and he came very close to getting every one there is! These include many that we have never auctioned in all our years of auctioning, and may well never auction them again! This is a very rare opportunity for collectors to acquire these ultra rare pressbooks (which are even more rare than the posters from these same serials, likely because they were sent to very few theaters, and likely most of those theaters immediately threw them out). If one started to try to assemble a similar collection without purchasing any of these pressbooks, they would likely spend many years before they could acquire even a small percentage of them. That is how rare these are!

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