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Auction History Result 3p1555 MYSTERY TROOPER 3 chapter 1 LCs 1931 Buzz Barton Canadian Mountie serial, very rare! Date Sold 1/17/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. 3 Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #1 (The Trap Of Terror) Movie Lobby Cards (LCs; measure 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Mystery Trooper, the 1931 Stuart Paton, Harry S. Webb Royal Canadian Mounted Police Mountie cowboy western serial starring Buzz Barton, Robert Frazer, Blanche Mehaffey, Al Furgeson, Charles King, William Von Brencken (billed as "Red Eagle"), and White Cloud (billed as "'White Cloud' The Wonder Horse"). Note that Buzz Barton was born William Lamoreaux, but at the age of 12, he played a small role in a B-western, billed as "Billy Lamar". Over the next two years, he appeared in a total of nine B-westerns, being billed under various names. Apparently, he was quite a horseman, and in 1927, he starred in "The Boy Rider" as a youthful western hero, and he was billed as "Buzz Barton". This proved to be a very popular movie, and over the next two years, he appeared in around a dozen similar movies, as the "World's Greatest Juvenile Western Star", always playing David "Red" Hepner (because of Barton's red hair). Over the next few years, he continued making B-westerns, playing various characters, but becoming an adult hurt his career, and he was reduced to playing uncredited parts in scores of B-westerns in the late 1930s. He left the movies in 1942, when he enlisted in the Navy (even though he only grew to 5'2" as an adult). Note that first release movie paper from this forgotten serial is beyond rare! The movie was re-released in 1935 as "Trail of the Royal Mounted", and we have had a few items from the re-release, but never anything from the first release. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that movie paper from this film is incredibly rare. We have only auctioned a few lobby cards from the 1935 re-release of this movie and one pressbook, but we have never auctioned ANY first release lobby cards from this title until we were consigned this group of three cards! Note that this group of lobby cards is from a remarkable find that was just made of extremely rare lobby cards from the very early 1930s, the kind of titles you never see! Unfortunately, all of them were in lesser condition and some in much lesser condition. We took out the best seven for individual auctions and then there are eleven incomplete sets of cards in eleven separate auctions (and this is one of those incomplete sets), and finally, we made four bulk lots of the cards in the worst condition. All of these will be auctioned in our auctions that end in January, and afterwards, there will be no more cards from this remarkable find! Condition: poor to fair. On of the cards is obviously in "poor" condition! The cards have darkened unevenly and have paper loss in the corners. They have some smudges and stains scattered throughout. Obviously, these extremely rare lobby cards can be restored, but bear their condition in mind (and look at our super-sized images) before bidding on them. Learn More about condition grades 
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