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DANTINI THE MAGNIFICENT DANTINI THE MAGNIFICENT WC, regular OR search current auctions Auction History Result 1a0231 DANTINI THE MAGNIFICENT Spook Show Benton WC 1960s Master Magician & Company, rare! Date Sold 10/31/2021 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Unfolded Spook Show Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Dantini the Magnificent (born Vincent Cierkes) was a magician from the 1910s to the 1970s. Early in his career, he called himself Doctor Zangar Jr., until he met Harry Houdini (and borrowed a few dollars from him) and changed his stage name to Dantini (after Houdini and another magician named Dante). Dantini played in various venues (mainly in the Baltimore area) including vaudeville, theaters, night clubs, book stores (including the Peabody Book Shop for 12 years), burlesque clubs, spook shows, and even appeared in a few short films. He passed away in 1979 at the age of 78. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1950s ("spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s, with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). The few "spook show" window cards that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this spook show, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Also note that this card is made by the Benton Card Company which is a different company than the one that printed most of the window cards at that time. The Benton Card Company made mostly two-color window cards that used blown up newspaper ads. They sold their window cards cheaper than the regular ones, so many theaters used them. In the 1970s, someone bought the company and made reprints of earlier titles, but those are clearly marked. The window card offered here is from the original release of this movie! Note that this window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded. Condition: good to very good. Learn More about condition grades 
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