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“Capes, Crooks & Cliffhangers: Heroic Serial Posters of the Golden Age” from Heritage

Do you recall the posters of the Golden Age’s serial movies? Audiences from the 1930s and 1940s would come out to see these Hollywood Hits and the posters were colorful, action filled and intriguing. For those of you who collect such posters or just think they are cool, Heritage Auction Galleries has announced the publication of Capes, Crooks & Cliffhangers: Heroic Serial Posters of the Golden Age.

The book comes with a special introduction by Noel Neill, the woman who played televisions original Lois Lane.

According to news from Heritage Auction Galleries -“All of these colorful characters, and many others from the comics, pulps, and radio, made their silver screen debuts as multi-part serials,” said Grey Smith, co-author of the book and Director of Vintage Movie Posters at Heritage, “in which the hero would face certain death at the end of each chapter, urging their fans to return week after week to continue their thrilling adventures.”

The superheroes that are now the subjects of multi-million-dollar blockbuster films and the centers of merchandising and comic book franchises – names like Batman, Superman and Captain Marvel – may have gotten their starts in the pages of Golden Age comic books, but it was actually in these serial adventures that their names and personas were forever bonded to the American psyche.

“In reading about these amazing posters, and the classic serials they represent,” said John Petty, Co-author of Capes, Crooks & Cliffhangers, “You get a real sense of how these chapter plays transported depression-era audiences to a place of absoluteness. There was good and bad, right and wrong and just and evil. You can imagine how important this was to people in such confusing times.”

No less a person than Stan Lee calls it, “… a page turner…a literary and artistic feast,” and Leonard Maltin hails it as “[a] welcome book.” Nice… Thanks Stan…Ivy Press, a division of Heritage Auction Galleries, has announced the publication of Capes, Crooks & Cliffhangers: Heroic Serial Posters of the Golden Age, a new book about the serials of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s that were based on characters from comic books, pulps, radio, and more, and the classic posters used to promote them to movie going audiences. The posters, featuring such popular characters as Superman, Batman, Flash Gordon, The Green Hornet, Tarzan, and the Lone Ranger, are eagerly sought today and can command prices well into the five-figure range.

The standard 300+ page softcover edition, which includes hundreds of full-color illustrations, is available for $39.95. Also available is a deluxe slipcased hardcover edition – strictly limited to 100 copies, for only $125.

About the Author

About the Author: Pam Ravenwood is a freelance writer. Mycomicshop.com is one of the largest retailers of comic books in the world. Mycomicshop is the online presence of Lone Star Comics, a leading retailer of comic books with seven stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. For more information please visit: www.mycomicshop.com http://www.mycomicshop.com.”

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