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Auction History Result g459 MYSTERIANS MGM 1sh '59 Ishiro Honda, they're abducting Earth's women & leveling its cities! Date Sold 4/10/2007Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original 1959 (from the first release of this movie in the U.S.) Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Chikyu Boeigun (released in the U.S. in 1959 as "The Mysterians"), the 1957 Ishiro Honda Japanese Toho battling gigantic robot science fiction (sci-fi) thriller ("'The Mysterians are coming! To destroy our cities, to take our women, to enslave us all!'"; "From behind the moon they come... To invade the earth! Abduct its women! Level its cities"; "in Big Screen Color"; "Greatest science-fiction picture ever conceived by the mind of man"; "Electronic war erupts from outer space!"; "Who can say it will not happen?"; "Amazing! Terrifying! Fantastic!"; "See Demons from the darkness behind the moon who top our every top secret! See The master race that smashed the atom before we saw the light of day! See Love-hungry space men abduct Earth's women that they themselves might survive!") starring Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata, and Takashi Shimura. Note that this movie was apparently initially released in the U.S. by RKO, but RKO was having great financial difficulties at this time, and it seems that MGM took over the U.S. release while the movie was still in first release, and that they possibly also had released the movie in English-speaking countries outside the U.S. prior to taking over the U.S. release from RKO. We have had original release posters and lobby cards from both studios (the posters and lobby cards are identical except for the change in studio information). Oddly, we have sold a window card, a half-sheet, and an insert that have both studios' names on it! Most collectors seem to accept both RKO and MGM posters as "first release". NEW INFORMATION! We have been informed by an expert collector/dealer that he believes that RKO went broke during the initial release of this movie, and that MGM took over the distribution during the first release, which would mean that, depending on how you look at it, either both studios' posters are first release, or that the RKOs are the technical first release and that the MGMs are a same-year re-release. If anyone knows more about the distribution of this movie, and these posters, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that this Japanese Toho monster movie was first released in the U.S. in 1959 by MGM. In 1962, RKO bought the rights to re-release it. They used the same plates to create a new poster, simply changing the small box in the center of the poster that used to read "MGM PRESENTS" to "RKO Radio Pictures presents", and also changed the copyright information at the bottom left, and added an RKO studio logo to the bottom right. Oddly, the copyright date and even the litho number is the exact same as from the 1959 poster, and it is only on the back of the poster that you see the stamp that reads "MYSTERIAN R62-440". Someone just looking at the front of the poster would likely think it is an original 1959 release! Condition: good. Note that there is brown paper tape on the back of the middle of the left of the poster, repairing a long reverse L-shaped tear extending up through the center of the body of the monster. Learn More about condition grades 
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