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Auction History Result 1f255 KING KONG LC R1942 best image of giant ape chained on stage in front of crowd, different! Date Sold 11/5/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. A 1942 Re-Release Theatrical Movie Lobby Card (LC; measures 11" x 14" [28 x 36 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. Important Added Info: Note that for this 1942 re-release, RKO not only added a really cool "is loose!" below the title, but they also added great different artwork of Kong holding Fay Wray in the lower right corner (and of course, these cards are full-color, which is not always the case with re-releases). They are certainly far more rare than the original 1933 cards, likely because not nearly as many theaters played the movie in 1942, whereas in 1933, the movie was a massive success and played all over the world to great acclaim! Also note that we have a scan of both the front and the back of this lobby card, which should greatly help you see what defects it has. What IS gelbacking? Learn More Condition: good. The card had much staining scattered throughout, with pinholes around the edges and paper loss in the top right blank corner. Someone had the card cleaned and gel backed, and restoration was performed to the above defects. Overall, the card was in fair to good condition prior to restoration. You can still see signs of the card's defects, but it displays pretty well, and it looks and feels like an unbacked card. The pinholes in the bottom right corner affected the middle number of the NSS numbers after the slash mark, and the person who restored that number guess at what it should be, and they guessed wrong. Of course, one could either leave this as it is or have a restorer fix that tiny number. Learn More about condition grades 
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