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Auction History Result 1r016 SUPERMAN Chap 8 LC '48 great close up image of stunned Kirk Alyn in costume saving man! Date Sold 8/14/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #8 ("Superman to the Rescue") Movie Lobby Card (11x14; LC; measures 11" x 14") (Learn More) Superman, the 1948 Spencer Gordon Bennet & Thomas Carr science fiction (sci-fi) comic book superhero serial ("A Columbia Serial"; "Rocketing Into A Mighty Adventure!"; "Challenged by treachery!"; "Racing toward doom!"; "By arrangement with National Comics Publications, Inc."; "Based on the Superman adventure feature appearing in Superman and Action Comics magazines, in daily and Sunday newspapers coast-to-coast and on the Superman radio program broadcast over the Mutual Network.") starring Kirk Alyn (in the title role as Superman/Clark Kent), Noel Neill (who later reprised her role as Lois Lane in the TV show), Carol Forman (as "Spider Lady"), Tommy Bond (as Jimmy Olsen; best remembered as Butch the bully from the Our Gang series), Pierre Watkin (as Perry White), Wheeler Oakman, Nelson Leigh (as Jor-El), Luana Walters (as Lara), Virginia Carroll (as Martha Kent), and Ed Cassidy (as Eben Kent). Note that Superman was created in 1938 as a comic book hero, but it took ten long years for a movie to be made depicting him (perhaps moviemakers were deterred by the expensive budget required to have Superman perform his great feats of strength and flying!). This item is from that very first movie, the serial entitled "Superman"! Republic Pictures had tried to make a Superman serial in 1941, but DC wanted more money than they were willing to pay, and they ended up making a Captain Marvel serial instead. Two years later, they made the first Batman serial, and it would not be for five more years before they finally made this serial! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. There was some kind of stamp on the back of the middle right of the card, which stained through to the front (mostly in the area above the title box). Someone put paper tape on the back of most of the right 2" of the card, which also served to mend small tears in the right blank border. There were also smudges in the right border. There are some smudges and small tears in the borders. The rest of the image area of the card is in pretty nice condition, but the stains are very noticeable in the upper right of the image background, as seen in our image (although of course, they are not anywhere near the image of Superman or in the title box). Learn More about condition grades 
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