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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.

Important Added Info: Note that this pressbook was folded across the center at one time. Because of this, this pressbook can be sent in one of our standard size packages (if it is purchased together with pressbooks that can NOT be folded, then it will of course have to be sent in one of our oversized packages). But if this pressbook is purchased by itself (or solely with other pressbooks that can be folded), then the shipping will be much lower, because it fits in a standard package. Also note that pressbooks were prepared prior to a movie being released. Often, changes would be made in a movie advertising campaign (billing of actors, different images, etc.), and the theaters would print up special supplements that they would send out with the pressbooks that had already been printed. These supplements are very rare, far more rare than the pressbooks themselves! Some pressbooks would have no supplements, some would have one, and some would have several. Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of the pressbook, plus an image of any supplements or heralds (if there are any included with this pressbook), but of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are selling (plus any supplements or heralds)! Finally, note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut!

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