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Auction History Result 4d0738 SUPERMAN linen chapter 15 1sh 1948 Kirk Alyn in costume in both the artwork & the inset image! Date Sold 4/16/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Chapter #15 (The Payoff) One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41" [69 x 104 cm]) (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. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: NOTE THAT WE AUCTIONED THIS POSTER IN OUR HALLOWEEN 2022 AUCTION. This is a very rare case where the high bidder completely vanished, which is why we are re-auctioning it now. The high bid in that auction was $2,700, and unlike other auctions, which then try to sell the poster to the underbidder, we don't do that, because we feel it is very unfair, because that person was bidding against someone who did not honor their bid. SO NOW IT IS BEING RE-OFFERED, AGAIN STARTING AT $1 WITH NO RESERVE! Also note that a knowledgeable collector believes that Glenn Cravath created the art for this item. However, we cannot be 100% certain. If anyone has definitive proof such as signed original art, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that original release one-sheets from this very first Superman movie (released just ten years after Superman was created) have always been very difficult to find, likely because whatever ones still existed in the 1960s were then purchased by comic book collectors when that hobby took off in the 1960s and 1970s. We have only auctioned seven one-sheets from three of the chapters of this first serial (the seven posters were solely from those three chapters) in all our years of auctioning, but only two in the past 18 years, and the last one was 7 years ago, and it might be another seven or more years before we auction another! We have never before auctioned this chapter 15 one-sheet, which is the only one we have auctioned that has a close up image of Kirk Alyn in costume in the inset! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had separation and tiny bits of paper loss on parts of the folds. It had staple holes around the edges and some paper loss in the blank borders, likely caused by rough removal of staples. Overall, the poster was in good to very good condition prior to linenbacking. Either before or after it was backed, with no restoration, it was displayed and the reds in the poster have lightened. It is most noticeable when you compare the poster to another example. So the new owner of this rare and desirable poster can choose to display it as it is, or choose to have restoration solely performed to the border defects, or choose to have the reds in the poster brightened. I can see an argument for any of the three choices, but that will be up to the new owner of this poster! Learn More about condition grades 
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