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Auction History Result 6r001 ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL linen 36x117 cloth banner '41 montage art of Tyler in costume! Date Sold 4/16/2015 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Original Vintage Theatrical Cloth Banner Movie Poster (measures 36 1/4" x 117" [92 x 297 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 movie studios made cloth banners like these for virtually all movies in the 1920s and 1930s, likely ceasing production of them during World War II (because after World War II, paper banners took their place). Due to their large size, very few of them from ANY movies survive, and many of the ones that do have aged very poorly. That this survives from this movie is especially remarkable, both because it comes from the final time of cloth banners, and also because ANY movie paper from this 1941 superhero serial is incredibly rare! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The banner was printed on a thin cloth-like material and when it was found, it had a great amount of wear and had paper loss scattered around the edges, extending into the image and writing in many areas. Overall, the poster was in fair condition prior to linenbacking. Someone backed the poster onto linen and recreated the missing areas, and did some restoration to the image, but the defects and the restoration of the above defects are still quite noticeable. While one would certainly prefer to find a better example of this poster, it is extremely likely that no other example of it exists, and it seems pretty amazing to me that it exists at all! Learn More about condition grades 
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