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Auction History Result 3t156 KING KONG commercial poster '76 classic artwork of giant ape fighting planes w/Fay Wray! Date Sold 11/7/2013 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An 1976 Unfolded Commercial Poster (made to be sold directly to the public; measures 20" x 28" [51 x 71 cm]) (Learn More) King Kong, the classic 1933 Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack Africa New York City giant ape fantasy romantic love triangle adventure horror thriller ("'The most awesome thriller of all time' the one and only"; "Not beast.. Not human.... Not devil.. But all three magnified! Raging.. Roaring.. Crushing.. Killing.."; "Strangest story ever conceived by man!"; "Out-leaping the maddest imaginings! Out-thrilling the wildest thrills!"; "See the living, fighting monsters of Creation's dawn rediscovered in the world today!"; "See the death-fight between giant ape and prehistoric dinosaur... the most amazing combat since the world began!"; "See the ape as big as a battleship wrecking New York!"; "Unique..! Thrilling! Startling!"; "From an idea conceived by Edgar Wallace & Merian C. Cooper"; based on the story by Edgar Wallace, with incredible special effects by Willis O'Brien) starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong (as Carl Denham), Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, and Sam Hardy 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 sadly, more money has been lost on examples of this commercial poster than on all other commercial posters combined (because it has a 1933 date printed at the bottom, but actually, it is a REPRODUCTION of the ultra rare 1938 re-release one-sheet)! It's not uncommon for someone to call us all excited because they have a "1933 King Kong original", and we need to break it to them gently that it is a commercial poster (it helps that we can tell them that there is a zip code on the poster, and that zip codes were not added until the 1950s)! Portal Publications was a company in Sausalito, California that made repros of many classic movie posters and sold them commercially starting in the 1960s, but continuing for decades. But since the earliest of these are now 50 years old, they have acquired real age, which makes it all the more likely that people will mistake them for originals. But of course, the poster can still be displayed and enjoyed on the wall just as they were when they were first created. Condition: good to very good. Approximately 1/2" has been neatly trimmed from the top and bottom edges of the poster. There is some staining and a few pin holes in each corner of the poster and there is a sticky area on the back of the left corners of the poster (both now covered with a post-it note to prevent damage to other posters). The poster is otherwise in pretty nice condition. Learn More about condition grades 
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