eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 2a018 SUPERMAN herald '48 filled with comic strip art for this Columbia serial, cool & ultra rare! Date Sold 10/30/2016Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Herald (measures 6" x 9 1/2" [15 x 24 cm]; 4 pages) (Learn More) Superman, the 1948 Spencer Gordon Bennet & Thomas Carr science fiction (sci-fi) comic book superhero serial ("A Columbia Serial"; "Rocketing Into A Mighty Adventure!"; "Challenged by treachery!"; "Racing toward doom!"; "By arrangement with National Comics Publications, Inc."; "Based on the Superman adventure feature appearing in Superman and Action Comics magazines, in daily and Sunday newspapers coast-to-coast and on the Superman radio program broadcast over the Mutual Network.") starring Kirk Alyn (in the title role as Superman/Clark Kent), Noel Neill (who later reprised her role as Lois Lane in the TV show), Carol Forman (as "Spider Lady"), Tommy Bond (as Jimmy Olsen; best remembered as Butch the bully from the Our Gang series), Pierre Watkin (as Perry White), Wheeler Oakman, Nelson Leigh (as Jor-El), Luana Walters (as Lara), Virginia Carroll (as Martha Kent), and Ed Cassidy (as Eben Kent). Note that Superman was created in 1938 as a comic book hero, but it took ten long years for a movie to be made depicting him (perhaps moviemakers were deterred by the expensive budget required to have Superman perform his great feats of strength and flying!). This item is from that very first movie, the serial entitled "Superman"! Republic Pictures had tried to make a Superman serial in 1941, but DC wanted more money than they were willing to pay, and they ended up making a Captain Marvel serial instead. Two years later, they made the first Batman serial, and it would not be for five more years before they finally made this serial! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before seen this really cool 4-page herald! It has great cartoon art of Superman on the cover and a 2-page Superman comic strip inside, which we have also never seen before. Almost surely the reason we have never seen this herald before is because we highly doubt any theaters ordered them! The movie was a serial and most theaters showed a chapter from it each week, along with their regular show, so why would a theater order a herald for something that was just a minor part of their show? In this case, the herald has full printing on the back, which shows that it was used at a theater that had a special "Junior Joy Jamboree Show", which was a Thursday matinee starting at 10:30am (and the herald says this is the very first one, and they might never have done anymore, if they didn't get a very good turnout). This is surely one of the most rare Superman collectible items we have ever seen, and it has three pages of wonderful cartoon art! Condition: good to very good. The herald was folded slightly off center. It has light stains and tiny tears in the left of the cover, with tiny paper loss in the bottom left corner. There is darkening in the left 1/2" of the interior, with a water stain at the bottom of that area (see our images). Learn More about condition grades
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