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Auction History Result 1j045 ASYLUM OF HORRORS Spook Show paper banner '46 the Frankenstein monster on stage in person! Date Sold 4/10/2011 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Spook Show Paper Banner (measures 20 1/2" x 56" [52 x 142 cm]) (Learn More) Asylum of Horrors, the 1946 Spook Show ("On stage"; "In person FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER Jack Wyman's version"). This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1940s ("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. NOTE THAT THIS SPOOK SHOW POSTER IS A PAPER BANNER, AND WE HAVE NOT SEEN OTHERS LIKE IT! Note that a perpetual calendar shows that the date listed on the poster corresponds to 1940 or 1946, and we think it is likely it is from 1946. 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. Condition: very good to fine. The poster has three metal grommets (in the top corners and the center of the top border) that were added when it was created. The poster is in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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