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Auction History Result 2p070 SPECIAL HALLOWEEN LATE SHOW Spook Show WC '50s wacky art of witch & black cat on rocket! 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 22 3/4") (Learn More) Special Halloween Late Show, the circa 1950s double-bill window card that advertised the show which was held at the Alliance Theatre on October 28th ("Tie your knees together so they won't RATTLE!"; "Free iron pills if your blood turns to water!") featuring Abbott and Costello Meet Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the 1953 Charles Lamont London England monster horror comedy ("It's Scare-iffic... When the Funsters Meet the Monsters!"; "The laughs are twice as monster-ous as ever before!"; "You'll howl... When they prowl... For the master-monster of them all!"; "ALL NEW! ALL WILD! ALL FUN!") starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello (Abbott and Costello), Boris Karloff (in the title role as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde), Helen Westcott, Craig Stevens, Reginald Denny, and John Dierkes AND It Came From Outer Space, the classic 1953 Jack Arnold 3-D (3D; 3-Dimension) science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("An avalanche in your lap!"; "A helicopter over your head!"; "A space ship zooms at you!"; "3-Dimension excitement that can almost touch you!"; "From Ray Bradbury's great science fiction (sci-fi) story!"; "THRILLS that almost TOUCH YOU! Through the magic of 3-DIMENSION"; "Amazing sights the human eye has never seen before!"; "3-Dimension fantastic sights leap at you!"; "Fantastic sights leap at you! In 3-DIMENSION"; "Amazing! Exciting! Spectacular!") starring Richard Carlson, Barbara Rush, Charles Drake, Russell Johnson, Kathleen Hughes and Joe Sawyer. This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1930s ("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. 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: 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. There are some very faint smudges scattered throughout the card, but otherwise, it is in quite nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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