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ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL LC OR search current auctions Auction History Result 3m440 ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL chapter 11 LC '41 fx image of costumed Tom Tyler moving tree! Date Sold 9/6/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Chapter #11 (Valley of Death) Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 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. Important Added Info: Note that original release paper from this first costumed superhero serial (made just three years after Superman was introduced) is extremely rare. It is even more rare to find original release lobby cards that show Tyler in costume as Captain Marvel, and this card has a great image of him using his superhuman strength to lift a tree off the road! Condition: fair to good. There is faint water staining across the bottom 2" of the card and faint brown dot water stains scattered throughout the rest of the card (mostly only noticeable in the blank white areas). There are tiny areas of paper loss and tiny tears in the left blank border, tiny paper loss in the top right blank corner, and a few pairs of staple holes and tiny tears in other parts of the borders. There are three pieces of cloth tape on the back of the top border. While this card does of course have significant defects, it is also true that they are almost completely around the edges, and not in the image, and certainly a talented restorer could perform either a "light restoration" (only repairing the most obvious defects) or a "full restoration" (going over the entire card), and either way, the card will afterward display great! Learn More about condition grades 
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