eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 8m0007 BILLBOARD exhibitor magazine Jan 15, 1944 26 year old Dean Martin at the start of his career! Date Sold 5/2/2021Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Exhibitor Magazine (measures 9 3/4" x 13 3/4" [25 x 35 cm]; 80 pages) (Learn More) The Billboard, one of the trade magazines sent to movie theater owners and legitimate theater owners (it was founded in 1894, when there were no movies yet!) in the 1920s ("The Theatrical, Motion Picture and Show World Review"; "The World's Foremost Amusement Weekly"). Each magazine measured approximately 10" x 14", and each contained around 100 pages. Each weekly issue would be filled with lots and lots of information of interest to anyone in the various entertainment worlds (movies, theater, circus, carnivals, magic, etc.). Note that in the 1930s, it began having heavier and heavier coverage of the music industry, and in 1961, it started to solely cover the music industry, including the famous "Billboard Charts"! But for 68 years before that, it had covered all types of entertainment. Note that these exhibitor magazines were ONLY sent to theater owners, and the general public never had a chance to buy them. But most theater owners treated them like old newspapers, throwing them away after the movies had played. Consequently, they are extremely rare, especially those from the 1930s and before! Important Added Info: Note that the cover of this magazine has a wonderful super young image of Dean Martin when he was 26! He had first started performing four years earlier (after having spent time as a boxer name "Kid Crochett"), but it was not until 1943 that he started getting nationally noticed, and this might be one of his very first cover appearances in a national magazine. There is an interior story that calls him "a threat to Frank Sinatra" and that he is "surefire for stage, screen, or radio", and it says that he will soon be on radio. It also describes his boxing career and that he was recently signed by MCA! Note that we have provided a picture of the front cover of the magazine, and also pictures of one or more interior two-page spreads (but we didn't make much effort to find the best ones!). These images should greatly help you judge the overall condition of the magazine. Please realize that sometimes there were only a few ads in each magazine, and sometimes quite a few, but that often the bulk of each magazine is taken up by stories about current productions and other information of interest to theater owners (and I don't know that this information can be found anywhere else or that it has been reproduced in any book since its first publication!). Please know that these magazines are sealed in bags and are ready for shipping, and we cannot answer any questions about them or look through them for you, so please bid (or do not bid) based on the images we have provided. Condition: good to very good. Note that we checked every page of this magazine and it is complete and uncut. Most exhibitor magazines show clear signs of wear because they were used by exhibitors to decide what movies to order. We have provided an overall description of the condition of the magazine, and also several images of interior pages, plus the cover, and those will help you to judge the condition of this magazine. Learn More about condition grades
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