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Auction History Result 6z0039 DR. SATAN'S SHRIEKS IN THE NIGHT SHOW linen 40x60 1960s nude Marilyn Monroe & Elvis Presley! Date Sold 12/24/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Forty by Sixty Spook Show Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60" [102 x 152 cm]) (Learn More) Dr. Satan's Shrikes in the Night Show, the 1960s spook show poster ("New kind of horror show! Unlike anything you have every seen! If you think you have seen horror shows before We Warn You - This is the most!"; "1001 Thrills"; "On Stage"; "Every thrill in the book!"; "Action takes place in the audience! You're actually surrounded by a horror horde of nightmare creatures!"; "All on stage! Right before you eyes!"; "See slave maidens at the mercy of hideous beasts! See Dead Painter Van Gogh materialize"; "The ethereal form of Elvis Presley and the posing apparition of Marilyn Monroe [Re-enacting famous Pin-up pose]"; "Free [in addition to everything else] so that you'll always remember!"; "To boys: Large spirit portrait of Marilyn Monroe [famous pin-up pose]"; "To girls: Large spirit portrait of Elvis Presley"; "Plus Horror Movie!"). The spook shows advertised by this poster were produced by Joe Karston and were performed by magicians that he employed such as Wayne Harris, Kirk Kirkham, Harry Wise, John Daniels and Johnny Cates. 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: Note that we have only previously auctioned three examples of this Spook Show poster, and the last one sold for $640! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good. The poster had paper loss at the top crossfold and tiny paper loss at the other crossfolds. It had some pinholes and small tears around the edges, with a couple areas of paper loss caused by rough removal of pins. There were creases and tiny surface paper loss on parts of the folds. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. Certainly, additional restoration could be performed with or without re-backing the poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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