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Auction History Result 5r1136 ATOM MAN VS SUPERMAN chapter 1 LC 1950 Lyle Talbot's bullets bouncing off Kirk Alyn in costume! Date Sold 12/21/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #1 (Superman Flies Again) Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Atom Man vs. Superman, the 1950 Spencer Gordon Bennet comic book superhero serial ("Trapped by deadly fumes"; "Bomb of Death!"; "The Man of Steel strikes!"; "Blasted in the Sky!"; "Kryptonite renders Superman helpless!"; "High-tension death-trap!"; "Based on the Superman adventure feature appearing in Superman and Action Comics magazines coast to coast. Adapted from the Superman radio program."; based on the famous DC Comics comic book character) starring Kirk Alyn (in the title role as Superman/Clark Kent), Lyle Talbot (in the title role as Lex Luthor/The Atom Man), Noel Neill (who later repeated her role as Lois Lane in the TV series, after Phyllis Coates left the show), Tommy Bond (as Jimmy Olsen), Pierre Watkin (as Perry White), and Terry Frost. Note that this was the second Superman serial (the first was simply titled "Superman", and was released in 1948, with the same actors as in this serial). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that, for unknown reasons, not very many of the lobby cards from the Superman serials actually show Superman in costume, and fewer still show any sort of special effect. This great chapter 1 card has a close up of Lex Luthor foolishly attempting to shoot a regular gun at the Man of Steel! Note that this card has been "gel backed". What does that mean? It means that a talented restorer backed the card onto a gel material, and they then performed restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, and afterward the card still looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. Many collectors prefer this method of restoration to paperbacking or linenbacking, because with those methods the card no longer looks like it was not backed. Gel backing can't be used with cards that have major paper loss or other major defects, but for the cards it can be used on, it is really an excellent method of restoration! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. What IS gelbacking? Learn More Condition: good to very good. The card had pinholes and tiny paper loss around the edges, but only a few within the image. There was a pinhole just above Superman's belt and one in Luther's sleeve. There were a few faint stains scattered in the image. Overall, the card was in good condition prior to restoration. Given the card's defects described above, the restorer did a pretty good job, but you can see signs of the defects and the restoration (see our super-sized images to get a good sense of exactly how the card looks now). Learn More about condition grades 
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