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ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL 1sh OR search current auctions Auction History Result 3d0100 ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL linen chapter 12 1sh 1941 art of Tom Tyler in costume, rare! Date Sold 10/30/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Chapter #12 (Captain Marvel's Secret) One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) Adventures of Captain Marvel, the 1941 John English & William Witney comic book superhero fantasy serial ("A Republic Serial in 12 Chapters"; "Based on the character in WHIZ COMICS Magazine" by C.C. Beck; about the boy who becomes a superhero when he says "Shazam" and he fights a mysterious masked villain called "The Scorpion") starring Tom Tyler (in the title role as Captain Marvel), Frank Coghlan Jr. (as Billy Batson, Captain Marvel's youthful alter ego), Louise Currie, William 'Billy' Benedict, Robert Strange, Kenne Duncan, Stanley Price, and John Davidson. Note that no one is credited as playing the lead masked villain, "The Scorpion" but IMDb notes that Gerarld Mohr voiced The Scorpion (uncredited). Note that Republic Pictures had tried to make a deal with DC Comics to make serials of Superman and Batman in 1940, but they could not agree on a deal, and in fact a lawsuit resulted. So instead they made a deal with Whiz Comics and made this serial in 1941, and the serial "Spy Smasher" in 1942 (and DC Comics signed with Columbia Pictures in 1943, and made their Batman and Superman serials there!). So this was the very first of the many "live action" movies based on the costumed super heroes, and, likely because it was released at the start of America's involvement in World War II, and there were paper drives over the next few years, original 1941 movie paper on this title is EXTREMELY rare! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned five examples of first release one-sheets from different chapters of this serial, and the last one was 9 years ago, and the one before that was 15 years ago! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had uneven darkening in parts of all the blank borders. It had small tears and tiny paper loss scattered in parts of the vertical fold, including the crossfolds. It had a lesser amount of wear on the horizontal folds and a few smudge and scuffs scattered throughout, with a fine diagonal scratch mark in the upper left running through the upper right of the "T" of "CAPTAIN". Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did little restoration to the defects described above. While the poster displays pretty well from a reasonable viewing distance, and we would think most collectors would be happy to display it on their wall, it is also certainly true that any talented restorer could perform additional restoration, either with or without re-backing the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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