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Auction History Result 5m411 SUPERMAN herald R1960s rockets to real life on the screen in a mighty super serial! Date Sold 4/8/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Undated (probably 1960s) Re-Release Theatrical Movie Herald (measures 6" x 10" [15 x 25 cm]; 1 page) (Learn More) Superman, the 1948 Spencer Gordon Bennet & Thomas Carr science fiction (sci-fi) comic book superhero serial ("A Columbia Serial"; "Rocketing Into A Mighty Adventure!"; "Challenged by treachery!"; "Racing toward doom!"; "By arrangement with National Comics Publications, Inc."; "Based on the Superman adventure feature appearing in Superman and Action Comics magazines, in daily and Sunday newspapers coast-to-coast and on the Superman radio program broadcast over the Mutual Network.") starring Kirk Alyn (in the title role as Superman/Clark Kent), Noel Neill (who later reprised her role as Lois Lane in the TV show), Carol Forman (as "Spider Lady"), Tommy Bond (as Jimmy Olsen; best remembered as Butch the bully from the Our Gang series), Pierre Watkin (as Perry White), Wheeler Oakman, Nelson Leigh (as Jor-El), Luana Walters (as Lara), Virginia Carroll (as Martha Kent), and Ed Cassidy (as Eben Kent). Note that Superman was created in 1938 as a comic book hero, but it took ten long years for a movie to be made depicting him (perhaps moviemakers were deterred by the expensive budget required to have Superman perform his great feats of strength and flying!). This item is from that very first movie, the serial entitled "Superman"! Republic Pictures had tried to make a Superman serial in 1941, but DC wanted more money than they were willing to pay, and they ended up making a Captain Marvel serial instead. Two years later, they made the first Batman serial, and it would not be for five more years before they finally made this serial! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that this is NOT the original 1948 herald from this first Superman serial. That herald has the same cover, but it has 4 pages, and we once auctioned it, and it auctioned for $420. What is this herald? We believe it is from the 1960s, when this serial would have been re-shown in theaters (likely around the time of the Batman TV craze). A tip-off as to when it is from is that the back of the herald has much writing on it, and has a pressbook ad for the 1969 movie "Otley" glued to the back, which would indicate that this might be from a 1969 re-showing of this serial. However, this is guesswork, so do not bid on this herald unless you can accept the uncertainties as to when it was created. Also, our consignor had two of these that were very similar (each had a pressbook ad glued to the back). We auctioned the first one in 2017, and it sold for $68. Now we are auctioning the other one, and after this, we will have no more of these! Condition: good. There is writing and a pressbook ad glued to the back (see above). Learn More about condition grades 
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