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Auction History Result 5r1230 FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE chapter 7 LC 1940 Crabbe, Hughes, Shannon & rock person! Date Sold 12/21/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #7 (The Land of the Dead) Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, the 1940 Ford Beebe and Ray Taylor science fiction (sci-fi) comic-strip action adventure fantasy serial ("12 NEW dynamic episodes"; "From the Alex Raymond newspaper feature owned and copyrighted by King Features Syndicate") starring Buster Crabbe ("as Flash Gordon"), Carol Hughes ("as Dale Arden"), Charles Middleton ("as Emperor Ming"), Anne Gwynne ("as Sonja"), Frank Shannon ("as Dr. Zarkov"), Shirley Dean ("as Princess Aura"), and Roland Drew ("as Prince Barin"). Note that the first movie based on Alex Raymond's great newspaper comic strip was "Flash Gordon" in 1936. It was followed by "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" in 1938, and then this movie in 1940. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that there was a 1940s re-release of this serial, and the lobby cards from that re-release are often mistakenly sold as originals, but the originals are dated and printed on a heavier paper, while the re-releases are undated and printed on a thin paper. That early re-release might account for how incredibly rare the first release cards are! Note that this card has been "gel backed". What does that mean? It means that a talented restorer backed the card onto a gel material, and they then performed restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, and afterward the card still looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. Many collectors prefer this method of restoration to paperbacking or linenbacking, because with those methods the card no longer looks like it was not backed. Gel backing can't be used with cards that have major paper loss or other major defects, but for the cards it can be used on, it is really an excellent method of restoration! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. What IS gelbacking? Learn More Condition: good to very good. The card had most of the left, top, and right blank borders trimmed off, but only blank white paper was affected. Overall, the card was in good to very good condition prior to restoration. A restorer did a pretty nice job of replacing the borders, but you can see slight signs of the restoration. Learn More about condition grades 
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