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Auction History Result 9m0626 LOST PLANET AIRMEN linen 1sh 1951 great art of Tristram Coffin as King of the Rocket Men! Date Sold 8/8/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Lost Planet Airmen, the 1951 Fred C. Brannon New York City science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("Top secret! The brains and brawn of America combine to hold off the madmen who would rock the world in disaster!"; "Re-edited from 'King of the Rocket Men"; about a group of atomic scientists who suspect a traitor in their midst, so one of the scientists becomes a super hero Rocket Man, and works on exposing the evil "Dr. Vulcan", who has a device that can cause an earthquake, and when the Mayor of New York City refuses to pay a billion dollar ransom, the device is used, and there is an earthquake and massive tsunami in New York City's harbor, which was done by reusing footage from Republic's earlier 1939 disaster movie, "S.O.S. Tidal Wave"!) starring Tristram Coffin, Mae Clarke, Don Haggerty, House Peters Jr., and James Craven. Note that because this movie was massively edited from the 1949 Republic serial "King of the Rocket Men", and because it was made two years later, and because it was so condensed that entire characters were lost and major plot elements were eliminated, many collectors see it as a re-edited separate movie, and not as a feature version of a serial, so we list it as a separate title, but we don't argue with anyone who sees it as the "feature version" of the serial. Note that in 1966, an entirely different feature version of "King of the Rocket Men" was created for TV distribution. Also note that in 1967, a country rock band was formed which called itself "Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen", and the lead singer, George Frayne, took the name "Commander Cody"! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: fair to good. The poster must have been displayed, because the words of the title have clearly faded (it is much more noticeable when looking at an unfaded example). The three words were all red originally, and now they are between orange and light orange (they faded unevenly). The poster also had small paper loss at the bottom two crossfolds, with some tiny tears and tiny paper loss on parts of the bottom two horizontal folds and the part of the vertical fold between them, with a much lesser amount on the other folds. Overall, the poster was in fair to good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above, and completely left alone the fading in the title. The new owner of this poster could choose to either display it as it is, or have a restorer solely restore the small areas of paper loss described above, or have the restorer also touch up the faded title letters to get them back to the red they originally were. The poster does display pretty well as it is, but certainly, bear all of the above in mind and look at our super-sized image before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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