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Auction History Result 9g197 KING KONG linen 27x42 commercial poster '70s art of ape w/ Fay Wray on Empire State from R38! Date Sold 8/18/2016 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A Linenbacked Commercial Poster (made to be sold directly to the public; measures 26 3/4" x 41 3/4" [68 x 106 cm]) (Learn More) King Kong, the classic 1933 Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack Africa New York City giant ape fantasy romantic love triangle adventure horror thriller ("'The most awesome thriller of all time' the one and only"; "Not beast.. Not human.... Not devil.. But all three magnified! Raging.. Roaring.. Crushing.. Killing.."; "Strangest story ever conceived by man!"; "Out-leaping the maddest imaginings! Out-thrilling the wildest thrills!"; "See the living, fighting monsters of Creation's dawn rediscovered in the world today!"; "See the death-fight between giant ape and prehistoric dinosaur... the most amazing combat since the world began!"; "See the ape as big as a battleship wrecking New York!"; "Unique..! Thrilling! Startling!"; "From an idea conceived by Edgar Wallace & Merian C. Cooper"; based on the story by Edgar Wallace, with incredible special effects by Willis O'Brien) starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong (as Carl Denham), Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, and Sam Hardy 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 in the 1970s, Portal Publications created a reproduction King Kong poster which has broken the heart of hundreds, if not thousands, of people in the 1980s to present. What do I mean? They find the poster, and because it had "1933" in the bottom border, they incorrectly think they found an original 1933 King Kong poster, and they are very sad later when they discover it is a common reproduction (which actually reproduces the image from the 1938 re-release one-sheet). Many thousands of that poster were sold over the years. However, this is not that poster! This measures close to a one-sheet size (26 3/4" x 41 3/4"), and it has the same image as the Portal poster, but it has the numbers "XB2L8" below the RKO logo. We have never auctioned this poster before! We feel that it is surely a commercial poster as well, and also likely from the 1970s, but we don't know where or how it was distributed or sold. It certainly will look cool on the new owner's wall, but please don't tell anyone that it is either from 1933 or from 1938! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had tiny paper loss at the top two crossfolds, with paper loss at the bottom crossfold. It had vertical tears and tiny paper loss scattered across the bottom horizontal fold, with a few small tears on parts of some other folds. It had paper loss down the left and right of the blank borders. It had some tiny areas of surface paper loss scattered in the image. Overall, the poster was in good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was pretty well backed, but you can clearly see signs of the above defects and the restoration of the above defects. Learn More about condition grades 
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