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Auction History Result 7a0240 THIS ISLAND EARTH linen 6sh 1955 great sci-fi art with top cast & mutant, ultra rare! Date Sold 8/4/2024 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Six-Sheet Movie Poster (6sh; measures 81" x 81" [206 x 206 cm]) (Learn More) This Island Earth, the 1955 Joseph M. Newman science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("The supreme excitement of our time!"; "2 1/2 years in the making! ...to bring you sights of Fantastic Amazement never before possible on the motion picture screen!"; "Trapped amid the mysteries of outer space they challenged the unearthly furies of a planet gone mad!"; "In out-of-this-world color by Technicolor"; "The mortal's World is left behind!"; "Earthlings prepared for Outer Space!"; "Kidnapped in midair by giant Space Ship!"; "Pursued by the deadly rays of destruction"; "Crashing the blazing thermal barrier"; "Two mortals trapped in outer space... challenging the unearthly furies of a planet gone mad!"; based on the novel by Raymond F. Jones) starring Jeff Morrow, Faith Domergue, Rex Reason, Lance Fuller, and Russell Johnson. Note that some advertising material refers to the title as "This Island, Earth", while others (including the one-sheet) have "This Island Earth". Note that the wonderful alien creature costumes in this movie were created by a woman named Milicent Patrick, who you probably never heard of, but she deserves to be well remembered. She was a top pianist as a young girl, and she graduated from high school at 14. She went to work for Disney as an artist in the animation department in the late 1940s, and she was the first female hired by Disney in that capacity. In 1954, she designed the classic creature costume used in Creature From the Black Lagoon, but the head of the makeup department on that movie did all he could do to keep her from getting proper credit, and as a result, she left Universal around a year later. It is said that she also created some of the well known costumes in other Universal horror and sci-fi movies preceding this, but there is no clear record as to which ones (but some great monsters of this time, including the ones in this movie, "This Island Earth", seem to be unmistakably be her design). She turned to acting, appearing in a few movies and on TV, but she pretty much vanished in the early 1960s. She passed away in 1998 at the age of 82. She certainly deserves massive credit for her contributions to Creature From the Black Lagoon, this movie, and other great 1950s monster movies, but that may never happen. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Sy Mezerow Important Added Info: Note that while we have previously auctioned almost every size of poster on this movie, including multiples of most, we had never before auctioned this six-sheet until April 2024, the only example of this poster we had ever auctioned. That example hammered at $2,400, but we accidentally put "Reynold Brown art" in the title of the auction, even though we didn't know for certain that it is Mr. Brown's art (see below). Since the high bidder ONLY collects Reynold Brown art posters, he canceled, because our title incorrectly said that it was surely Reynold Brown art. That is the reason we are now offering the poster again, because the April sale was canceled (and the result was removed from our database). The poster once again starts at $1 with no reserve, and it will sell to the highest bidder!
Fortunately, we are now able to definitively solve the mystery concerning the artist for this poster! The March 1988 issue of Cinefantastique magazine had an article about movie poster artists of the 1950s, and they featured this artwork on a two-page spread along with a caption that identifies the artist as Sy Mezerow, and noted that it was common practice to have more than one artist contribute to the same ad campaign. We don't know much about Sy Mezerow, but comic book artist Jean "Moebius" Giraud mentions that he had an "instructor, an old school workaday illustrator named Sy Mezerow" when he was in art school. We've also seen him associated with an advertising poster for Burgermeister beer, and he also created the wonderful art for this poster! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster had small paper loss at some crossfolds and some creases, tears, and tiny paper loss on parts of some folds. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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