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Auction History Result 5s0023 INVISIBLE RAY WC 1936 Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, beware the luminous man, beyond rare! Date Sold 9/6/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Movie Window Card (WC; measures 14" x 17 1/2" [36 x 44 cm]) (Learn More) The Invisible Ray, the 1936 Lambert Hillyer Universal science fiction (sci-fi) horror thriller ("Beware the luminous man!"; "Delving into strange, new fields of mystery!"; "'The Invisible Man' was an eye opener. The fans are still talking about it... but the 'Invisible Man' was a piker compared to the astounding Luminous Man"; "Not a horror picture! But a revelation in thrills and terrific suspense"; a totally bizarre movie about a scientist who goes to Africa with an expedition and finds a meteorite that emits Radium X rays, which he touches, and he absorbs a near-fatal dose, which means that he then kills anyone he touches; another scientist discovers a somewhat cure, which requires he take daily injections of a powerful drug, which slowly turns him mad, and meanwhile, the second scientist starts taking credit for the discovery, which, in controlled doses, can heal blind people!) starring Boris Karloff ("as the luminous man"), Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton, Walter Kingsford, Beulah Bondi, Violet Kemble Cooper, Nydia Westman, and Etta McDaniel (Hattie McDaniel's sister!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that ANY first release U.S. movie paper from this movie is incredibly rare. Before we were consigned this window card, we had never auctioned ANY first release posters or lobby cards, only two glass slides and some stills. Not only that, but posters and lobby cards from this movie almost never are offered for sale or at auction. The only ones we know have been in collections for many years. There is no telling how long it will be until we are consigned another poster or lobby card from this movie! Also note that this poster has been trimmed and it now measures 14" x 17 1/2" [36 x 44 cm].
**********URGENT******** We originally thought that there was more trimming of the very top of the image than there actually is! Not having ever auctioned this card before (and finding no other auction record of it) we thought that the word "BORIS" had originally been above "KARLOFF" at top left. But we were sent an image of an untrimmed window card (it appears in Jim Gresham's "Children of the Night: What Music They Make", and Karloff was simply billed as "KARLOFF" (as was true in The Mummy as well), and by comparing the full image to the card we are auctioning, it is clear that it is actually a VERY tiny amount that is trimmed from the very top of the image, around 1/8 of an inch! Please read our updated condition description below to learn the actual condition of this card (and we have update the Overall Condition to "good to very good". Thanks! ********** Condition: good to very good. 4 1/2" was trimmed from the top of the card. This affects the tiniest bit of the word "KARLOFF" and the very top bits of the letters of "BEWARE THE" and the tiny amounts of background above those words. The card also has darkening around the edges and some stains and tiny bits of surface paper loss in the borders, with scuff marks in the lower right border that extend into the very top right of the "Y" of "RAY". There are a few faint scuffs scattered in the image. Obviously, the new owner of this card will have to decide whether to restore the tiny missing top area (around 1/8 of an inch), or perhaps only do restoration around the edges of the card, or perhaps leave it as it is. What ever the new owner decides, they will have one of the most rare Universal horror posters to display on their wall, a title that almost no Universal horror collectors have any posters on in their collection! Learn More about condition grades 
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