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Auction History Result 8a262 LOT OF 8 REPRO LOBBY CARDS FROM PHANTOM EMPIRE CHAPTER 1 '80s super scarce serial! Date Sold 6/26/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. a lot of 8 1980s REPRODUCTION lobby cards from Chapter 1 of The Phantom Empire, the 1935 Otto Brower & B. Reeves Eason science fiction (sci-fi) singing cowboy western musical (!) serial starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Dorothy Christy (as Queen Tika), Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Richard Talmadge, and Wheeler Oakman. Note that this is one of the wackiest serials ever! Gene Autry owned the "Radio Ranch" where he broadcast he weekly radio show from. In this movie, he discovers that the "ancient continent of Murania" (a lot like Atlantis) had sunk beneath the ocean, but that the inhabitants, called "Muranians", had survived in underground caverns, and some of them lived in a cavern directly below his Radio Ranch! They were very peaceful, and very scientifically advanced, having invented television, ray guns, and really funky robot outfits, but they felt threatened by the Earth people from the surface who discovered them, and in this movie, Autry alternately tries to stop the Muranians from attacking the Earth people, while taking frequent breaks to perform songs on his radio show! This was one of the very few science fiction movies of the 1930s, and also one of the very few to show robots (actually men in robot suits)! Also note that Dick Talmadge was born "Sylvester Alphonse Metz", and he was an acrobat with the Barnum and Bailey Circus. He got a job in Hollywood as a stuntman for Douglas Fairbanks Sr., and then graduated to starring in movies, always performing lots of stunts. He had two acrobat brothers, Otto Metzetti and Victor Metz, who appeared with him in some of his movies. Note that these come from a man who collected serial lobby cards for decades. He knew that there were some serial cards that were SO scarce that he might never acquire them, so when he would encounter another collector who had ones he didn't have, he would often pay them to have color copies made (they look like they were made on a color copier), and most were on a fairly thin paper, but some were on a heavy stock, and you can tell which kind of paper each lot of repros is by looking at our condition area below. We are auctioning all of his repro serial lobby cards in many bulk lots (there are no others). This is a likely one time opportunity to acquire nice reproductions of extremely scarce serial lobby cards! Condition: very good to fine. These REPRODUCTION lobby cards were printed on a heavyweight paper stock similar to that of original lobby cards. Learn More about condition grades Titles included:
 
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