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Auction History Result 4d0179 DICK TRACY RETURNS die-cut pressbook 1938 Ralph Byrd, serial, Chester Gould art, ultra rare! Date Sold 4/16/2023 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 28 pages). Also included are 2 ad supplements that have one page and one page. (Learn More) Dick Tracy Returns, the 1938 John English & William Witney detective crime mystery serial ("A Republic Serial in 15 Smashing Chapters"; "Based on Cartoon Strip by Chester Gould") starring Ralph Byrd (in the title role as Dick Tracy), Lynne Roberts, Charles Middleton, Jerry Tucker, Lee Ford, and John Merton. Note that this was the second Dick Tracy movie! It is surprising that it took six years for it to reach the screen in 1937's "Dick Tracy", but once it did, it proved very popular and was followed by three more serials over the next four years, and then after a four year break, the first Dick Tracy feature film was released, which again proved extremely popular, and there were three sequels to that. There were animated cartoons on TV in the 1950s and in 1990, Warren Beatty made a live action movie! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this 1938 first release pressbook for this serial! 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. Also note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners received 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! Note that for the past 18 months, we have auctioned one of the most extraordinary collections of pressbooks ever assembled! What made it so extraordinary is that it contained lots and lots of extremely rare pressbooks, mostly from the 1930s and 1940s, including many that we had never auctioned before. In our last few regular auctions, we auctioned most of the last of this gigantic collection, and now, in this April Major Auction, we are auctioning the very last of them, and one quick look tells you that "we saved many of the very best for last"! This is your FINAL opportunity to buy from this extraordinary collection! Condition: very good, NO CUTS. The pressbook is complete and uncut. There are a couple of tiny tape repairs on the inside of the back cover, and there is partial separation on the die-cut covers, but otherwise, the pressbook and its cool supplements are in nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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