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Auction History Result 3b0113 LONE RANGER pressbook 1938 great art of masked Lee Powell in Republic serial, ultra rare! Date Sold 10/25/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 22 pages) (Learn More) The Lone Ranger, the 1938 John English & William Witney masked hero cowboy western serial ("The Lone Ranger A Man of Mystery"; "Republic Pictures presents The Motion Picture Version of 'The Lone Ranger'"; "Republic Serial in 15 Episodes"; "Based on the radio serial, 'The Lone Ranger' created by the radio station WXYZ Detroit, and written by Fran Striker"; the movie is set up unusually, with five men suspected of being The Lone Ranger, and the audience has no clue as to which man it is; they used Billy Bletcher's voice for the actual Lone Ranger, so that when each of the five men spoke their lines, the audience would not be able to pick them out as having the same voice as The Lone Ranger!) starring Lee Powell, Silver Chief (as Silver, the Lone Ranger's horse), Chief Thundercloud (billed as "Chief Thunder-Cloud"; as Tonto), Lynne Roberts, Hal Taliaferro (billed as "Wally Wales"), Bruce Bennett (sometimes billed as "Herman Brix"), Lane Chandler, George Montgomery, William Farnum, John Merton, Ted Adams, Charles King, and Iron Eyes Cody. Also, note that first release posters of any sort from this very first movie version of The Lone Ranger is extremely scarce, likely because it was bought by Lone Ranger fans decades ago, and has never returned to the hobby! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned one example of this 1938 first release pressbook, and that was 18 years ago! Note that there is an almost exact reprint of this pressbook that has often been mistakenly sold as original (it was done in the 1970s by Jack Mathis, and was intended as a tribute). However, the pressbook we are offering here is absolutely the original from 1938! There are differences between the original and the reprint, plus the original is decades older, and many times more rare! Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook (if the back cover is not the poster page, we photographed the interior poster page), and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Condition: fair, WITH CUTS. The back cover is missing There is a 2" x 3" cut on an interior page that affects the image of the herald, plus a 2" x 4" cut on another interior page that affects a newspaper ad. The inside front cover fortunately has "the poster page" showing the banner, the six-sheet, the three-sheet, the episode 1 one-sheet, and an example of the chapter one-sheets. The last interior page shows all the lobby cards. The pressbook was folded in half at one time and has wear across the middle. However, please bear in mind that this extremely rare pressbook is missing the back cover and has cuts on two interior pages, as described above, before bidding. Learn More about condition grades 
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