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Auction History Result 4j263 BLONDIE pressbook 1939 Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, 1st in series, Chic Young, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/5/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 17 3/4" [30 x 45 cm]; 20 pages) (Learn More) Blondie, the 1939 Frank R. Strayer family relationship bumbling father comedy ("The most lovable family that ever stole your heart away!"; "Out of the 'funnies'... straight into your heart!"; "Based upon the comic strip created by Chic Young"; the very first of the highly successful series of "Blondie" movies) starring Penny Singleton (in the title role as Blondie), Arthur Lake (as Dagwood Bumstead), Larry Simms (as Baby Dumpling), Gene Lockhart, Willie Best, and Daisy the Dog (a dog named Spooks that was renamed Daisy after the comic strip dog, and this was her debut; she appeared in all the Blondie movies and also a number of other movie until she retired in 1951!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this color version of this pressbook is extremely rare (there was also a black & white version of this pressbook, and we have auctioned only two examples of that). We have never auctioned it before! 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! 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! Condition: good to very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. The covers are separated at the spine. There are some small tears, creases, and scuffs around the edges of the covers. Learn More about condition grades 
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