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Auction History Result 3j0872 BATMAN linen chapter 2 1sh 1943 the 1st movie ever, cool comic art, both in inset, ultra rare! Date Sold 12/20/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Chapter #2 (The Bat's Cave) One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (Learn More) The Batman, the 1943 Lamber Hillyer classic DC Comics comic book superhero action adventure crime fighting serial ("A hundred times more thrilling on the screen!"; "A Columbia Chapter Play"; "the great action serial thriller!"; "All the action and thrills of the comic strip multiplied a hundred-fold!"; "In the hands of his enemies! Can Batman escape?"; "Daring in action! Superhuman against odds!"; "The all-American hero in super-human thrills!"; "Red-Blooded Americans Versus the Wily Nipponese!"; "Watch Batman deal death and defiance to his enemies!"; "See Batman turn the tables on the wily Jap!"; "Based on the Batman Comic Magazine Feature appearing in Detective Comics and Batman Magazines"; note that because this serial was made during the middle of World War II, the villains in the movie are Japanese, and they are the stereotyped Japanese villains of that time) starring Lewis Wilson (in the title role as Batman), Douglas Croft (as Robin), J. Carrol Naish (who plays the Asian villain, Dr. Tito Daka!), Shirley Patterson, William Austin (as Alfred), and Charles C. Wilson NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Artist: Glenn Cravath Important Added Info: Note that ANY original movie paper from the original 1943 release of this serial (made just 4 years after Batman was first introduced) is INCREDIBLY rare! Perhaps it was partly because of the World War II paper drives going on at this time (which would also account for the shortage of original release material from the 1941 "The Adventures of Captain Marvel"). Perhaps it was more because the movie was given a major re-release in 1954, and it is very common that movies that are re-released soon after their first release have next-to-no original paper known (perhaps because the remaining original paper was used during that 1954 re-release). In any event, we have only sold four first release one-sheets from this very first Batman serial in all the years we have auctioned movie posters (three English language and one Spanish language)! Of those, the Spanish one had a blank inset and two of the three English language ones did not show Batman or Robin in the inset. So this is only the second one-sheet we have auctioned that does show Batman and Robin in the inset, and it is only one of four English language one-sheets we have ever auctioned! Posters from this 1943 Batman serial are FAR more rare than posters from its 1949 sequel, or the two Superman serials made in 1948 and 1950 (and posters from those three serials are themselves pretty rare, but not at all like the rarity of the posters for this serial). What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had tears and areas of paper loss scattered throughout the entire inset area. It would seem likely that there was once a large snipe glued over that area, and that when it was removed, it caused tears and areas of paper loss, including in Batman and Robin's figures. The poster also had creases, smudges, and stains scattered in the rest of the image. It had pinholes, tears, and paper loss around the edges. Overall, the poster was in fair condition prior to linenbacking. Given the poster's significant defects, the restorer did an excellent job. While you can see signs of all the above from close up, the poster will display well from a reasonable viewing distance. One would of course much prefer a better condition example, but, as noted above, posters from this serial are extremely rare. Bidders need to read the above carefully and decide about bidding and how much to bid after reading it and after looking closely at our super-sized image. Learn More about condition grades 
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