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Auction History Result 5f0341 KING KONG LC R1938 most classic image of giant ape on Empire State Building, very rare! Date Sold 10/24/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1938 Re-Release Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 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. Important Added Info: Note that we have only previously auctioned two examples of this scene card, and those were 13 and 14 years ago, when they sold for $525 both times! Note that for this 1938 re-release (just five years after the original release), RKO created all different border art, and had all full-color lobby cards and posters. In all our years of auctioning, we have only auctioned six lobby cards from this 1938 re-release, as opposed to sixteen cards from the 1933 first release, and a much greater number of cards from all the other releases. Cards from this 1938 re-release are the most rare of any lobby cards from this 1933 classic movie! Now we are currently auctioning the entire set of eight cards from the 1938 re-release, in eight separate auctions! Note that this card has been "gel backed". What does that mean? It means that a talented restorer backed the card onto a gel material, and they then performed restoration to the above defects, and then removed the gel backing, and afterward the card still looks and feels like an original card (and it is!), with no backing at all. Many collectors prefer this method of restoration to paperbacking or linenbacking, because with those methods the card no longer looks like it was not backed. Gel backing can't be used with cards that have major paper loss or other major defects, but for the cards it can be used on, it is really an excellent method of restoration! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. What IS gelbacking? Learn More Condition: very good. The card had a 4" diagonal tear in the upper left, extending into the sky background between the planes, with a 2" crease below that. It had tiny pinholes in parts of the blank borders, with paper loss in the bottom right blank corner. It had a few faint smudges and scuffs scattered in the image. Overall, the card was in good to very good condition prior to restoration. Very nice restoration was performed, and the card displays really well (see our images of the front and back of the card)! Learn More about condition grades 
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