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Mickey Spillane's I, the Jury, the 1953 Harry Essex 3-D (3D; 3-Dimension) mystery crime thriller ("Now! His first motion picture blasts you out of your seat with its NAKED FURY!"; "All its man-woman violence shatters the screen!"; "So raw... So big... So full of naked fury ...IT HAD TO BE FILMED IN 3-D"; "The dynamite 3-D thriller!"; "Now! His first motion picture blasts you out of your seat in all-thrill 3-Dimension!"; "That Mickey Spillane Fury... SHATTERING! Those Mickey Spillane Women...SENSATIONAL! The Mickey Spillane Thrills... SEARING!"; "The Dynamite Thriller!"; "For the first time... That Mickey Spillane violence dynamites the screen with Thrills and Fury"; "Now! Mickey Spillane dynamites the screen with thrills and fury!"; "Now! Mickey Spillane dynamites the screen in 3-Dimension"; "For the first time... That Mickey Spillane violence blasts out of the screen at you in 3-Dimension!"; "The dynamite thriller!"; "Written for the Screen and Directed by Harry Essex"; based on the classic novel by Mickey Spillane) starring Biff Elliott (billed as "introducing Biff Elliot as Mike Hammer"), Preston Foster, Peggie Castle, Margaret Sheridan, Alan Reed, Joe Besser, and Paul Dubov. Note that Mickey Spillane was a department store salesman in 1940 when he discovered he could sell stories for comic books, and he quickly wrote for all the major companies. After Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the Air Force and became a fighter pilot. After the war, he wrote "I, the Jury" in 19 days, and it was published in 1947, and it sold 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone. Its hero, Mike Hammer, a hard-boiled private eye, would appear in many more novels. Spillane would write for the movies, and he even played Mike Hammer in "The Girl Hunters" in 1963!
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Important Added Info: Note that this movie was originally in 3-D. The studios created both 3D and 2D posters and lobby cards (the 2-D posters and lobby cards were for theaters that lacked the 3-D equipment). This item is from the "3-D" release.

Note that in December 2021, we were consigned a truly remarkable collection of pressbooks (the first 37 were auctioned in our December Major Auction, and the most expensive one sold for $17,500!). In our regular auctions since, we have auctioned hundreds more from this collection. Now we continue to auction more of these pressbooks, which is absolutely the finest collection of pressbooks we have ever been consigned. In this set of auctions, most of the ones we are auctioning are larger pressbooks, mostly 11" x 15" or larger. Some of them were folded at one time, but they were stored unfolded for many years, so we left them unfolded, and unless the new owner requests otherwise, we will send them unfolded, because re-folding them would likely lessen the condition. Many of these are ones we have either never auctioned before or only once auctioned before, sometimes many years ago. These were collected decades ago, which was the only time that many of these could be found, and after these auctions are over it may be years (or decades!) before some of these are offered again. They ARE that rare! Note that pressbooks from the 1930s are almost never found in great condition, and some of them (especially those printed during World War II, including all the MGM ones from that time) are printed on newsprint, and are hard to find in even lesser condition. We have several images from each pressbook. We have given each an overall grade, and ask that you look at our images to get a good sense of the condition of that pressbook, because, since they have many pages, it would take forever to describe their condition in detail. However, EVERY one of these pressbooks is complete and uncut!

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