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Auction History Result 4j312 SPIDER RETURNS pressbook 1941 Warren Hull in crime-fighting serial, w/ herald, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/5/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 10 1/2" x 13 3/4" [27 x 35 cm]; 16 pages). Also included is a herald that has one page (measures 9" x 12"). (Learn More) The Spider Returns, the 1941 James W. Horne masked super hero crime-fighting mystery adventure serial ("A Columbia Chapter Play"; "The gun-flashing Chapter-Play"; "The excitement-flaming Chapter-Play"; "The blood-freezing Chapter-Play"; "The breath-stopping Chapter-Play"; "The nerve-lashing Chapter-Play"; "Stark terror stalks the trail of desperate foreign spies!"; "Turning the heat on all spies... To unmask sabotage plots!"; "Fantastic adventure! Miraculous escapes! Breathless suspense!"; "The famous crime smasher now wars on the Nation's secret enemies!"; "An action-thundering chapter-play"; "Based upon 'The Spider' Magazine Stories", which appeared in 1930s pulp magazines) starring Warren Hull (in the title role as "The Spider"/Blinky McQuade/Richard Wentworth), Mary Ainslee, Dave O'Brien, Joseph W. Girard, Kenne Duncan (billed as "Kenneth Duncan"), Stephen Chase, and Forrest Taylor (as the voice of the Gargoyle) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Glenn Cravath Important Added Info: Note that this pressbook is extremely rare. We have never auctioned it before! Also note that when studios would prepare pressbooks they would often include a sample of the herald. Most often, the herald is no longer still with the pressbook. Sometimes, the herald by itself will sell for almost as much as the rest of the entire pressbook! This pressbook contains the original herald that was included with it, and it is pictured next to the pressbook below. 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: very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. It was folded across the middle at one time. We could re-fold it for shipping, but it seems a shame to do so, so we will only do so if the new owner requests that we do so. Learn More about condition grades 
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