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Auction History Result 2p067 DR. RETSEL MIDNITE SPOOK SHOW Spook Show window card '50s Date Sold 11/4/2008 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Spook Show Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 17 1/2") (Learn More) Dr. Retsel Midnite Spook Show, the circa 1950s Spook Show horror theatrical stage show window card ("Shivers"; "Shudders"; "Talking Ghosts"; "Thrills & Chills"; "On Our Stage"; " Don't come alone-make up a SPOOK PARTY With A Company of Visible and Invisible Assistants"; "Bats, Demons, Ghosts, Beside You - Above You and All Around You!"; "Weird!"; "'The Largest Mystery Show In The World'"). 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 specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: 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: very good to fine. The window card originally had a blank top that was neatly trimmed off (this was commonly done with window cards, when the top had been left blank, or when someone had hand-scrawled play date information in that area). Most collectors do not consider it to be a significant defect at all, since only blank white paper is lost, and the window card becomes easier to frame. Otherwise, the card is in quite nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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