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Auction History Result 7g193 DURSO'S SPOOK SHOW Spook Show WC 1942 Dick Briefer's Frankenstein in person, great art, rare! Date Sold 6/8/2017 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) Durso's Spook Show, the 1942 Spook Show window card ("On our stage in person"; "Weird uncanny unearthly"; "Roving spirits talking ghosts and the Frankenstein monster! in person"; "Shivers shudders thrills and chills"). This is certainly one of the coolest and weirdest Spook Show window cards we have seen! The date printed at the top correlates to 1942, which makes sense, because there was a Rice Theatre in Shinnston, West Virginia (they also had a Rice Drive-In from 1947 to 1955), and the Rice Theatre building was not demolished until 2012. It seems very odd that they would have a Spook Show event, not at Halloween, but on May 26, and on a Tuesday, and not on a weekend, but maybe that's how they did things in West Virginia during World War II! It also has a lot of nudity on it, which is unusual for any Spook Show window cards, especially early ones, plus there are two of the characters that resemble comic book characters from the same time period, Mr. Crime from Crime Does Not Pay Comics, and Dick Briefer's comic book version of Frankenstein, as well as a Devil, a ghoul, and a black cat, so there was really something for everyone. By researching newspapers, we found that the "Durso's Spook Show" was in existence from 1937 to 1947, and that they operated in lots of towns! If anyone knows more about any of this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Note that this was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1940s ("spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s, with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). The few "spook show" window cards that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: fair. There is much light staining scattered throughout the card, with more of it in the bottom right corner, and down the left side and in the bottom of the image. This is the sort of card that responds really well to professional restoration. It is likely that much or all of the stains can be removed through chemical means, after which the card will look great! Learn More about condition grades 
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