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As many of you know, I, Bruce Hershenson, owner of eMoviePoster.com, have collected pressbooks (and related movie paper like studio yearbooks) for over 30 years, and I have the world's foremost collection of such material. I thought I would share one item with you each week, the type of items you almost surely have never seen before, and which might not come up for sale for DECADES!

So below is the pressbook from G-Men vs. the Black Dragon, the 1943 Spencer Gordon Bennet & William Witney World War II (WWII) Asian villain crime adventure serial ("A Republic Serial in 15 Chapters"; "Sinister secrets of the 'Black Dragon' weave weird plots to destroy America's war effort!"; about a U.S. government agent joining forces with British and Chinese secret agents to fight the Japanese Black Dragon Society, that was smuggling enemy Japanese agents into the U.S. disguised as mummies!) starring Rod Cameron, Roland Got, Constance Worth, Nino Pipitone, Noel Cravat, George J. Lewis, and Maxine Doyle

Here is an image of the pressbook's covers and an interior spread:

   

Note that there is something extra special about this pressbook. On the page with the lobby cards, there is an image of the World War II "Buy War Bonds" poster, and they say that they will provide it to theaters that sell war bonds! We have never seen this on any other World War II era pressbook before!

Each week I will showcase a different pressbook (or related item) from my collection (so in just 20,000 weeks or so, I will have shared the entire collection with you!). And remember to check out our previous Cool Items of the Week in our Cool Item of the Week archive (which is fully searchable!).