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Auction History Result 2x008 DEVIL BAT TC '40 creepy Bela Lugosi, monstrous bat attacking man, Suzanne Kaaren! Date Sold 11/4/2014 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Title Lobby Card (LC TC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm]) (Learn More) The Devil Bat, the 1940 Jean Yarbrough science fiction (sci-fi) fantasy crime mystery horror thriller (based on a story by George Bricker; about a mad scientist who wants revenge on his former employers who he feels cheated him, and he trains his own breed of electrically enlarged bats to hate a specific perfume, and then he gets the female members of his former employers' families to wear it, after which they are brutally killed by the bats) starring Bela Lugosi, Suzanne Kaaren, Dave O'Brien (Dave 'Tex' O'Brien), Guy Usher, Yolande Donlan, and Donald Kerr. Note that "Poverty Row" studio PDC (Producers Distributing Corporation) went bankrupt at the end of the 1930s, and was reorganized as PRC (Producers Releasing Corporation), and this movie was their very first, and it was also their biggest hit! They made a "sequel" in name only called "Devil Bat's Daughter", but it did not match the success of this movie, and in fact, they had few other successes. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Condition: good to very good. The card had pinholes and creases around the edges, with a few small tears. It had a tiny tear in the chin of the girl at lower right and some fine scuff marks in the upper left of Lugosi's face, including one over the center of his eye. A talented restorer gel backed the card (meaning they backed the card onto a gel material) and they then performed excellent restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, so that the card still exactly looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. You can see slight signs of the restoration (and the restorer left alone the fine scuff lines in the upper left of Lugosi's face described above), but the card displays really well from any reasonable viewing distance! Learn More about condition grades 
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