eMoviePoster’s newest auction is filled with 999 title cards and scene lobby cards, covering all years and genres, with lots of rare film noir and horror. The auction began on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, and can be viewed at www.emovieposter.com.
Lobby cards include The Mummy’s Tomb card #7 with Turhan Bey and Lon Chaney Jr., Revenge of the Creature #4 showing the creature swimming, Alice in Wonderland #7 for the Disney classic, The Thing #7 for the Howard Hawks classic, Invaders from Mars #7 with cool image of the alien ship, Our Relations rare card with Laurel and Hardy, Houdini #7 depicting Tony Curtis, and Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man #8 for the comedy duo.
Other lobby cards are Saludos Amigos with Donald Duck, I Was a Teenage Frankenstein #8 showing the monster and a screaming girl, Sign of the Cross showing Claudette Colbert, Raven #5 with Boris Karloff and Hazel Court, Brides of Dracula #6 with Peter Cushing, Pack Up Your Troubles for the 1944 rerelease with Laurel and Hardy, Terry-Toon with image of Mighty Mouse, Night at the Opera #8 featuring the Marx brothers, and Girls Girls Girls #3 for the Elvis Presley movie.
Title cards are Spider Woman featuring Gale Sondergaard, Man Who Reclaimed His Tead with Claude Rains and Joan Bennett, Scarlet Claw with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Wong in Chinatown featuring Boris Karloff, African Queen with colorful art of Katharine Hepburn, The Fly for the sci-fi classic, Code of the Secret Service with Ronald Reagan and Rosella Towne, and Winchester ’73 showing ensemble cast.
Other featured title cards include Sands of Iwo Jima for the John Wayne classic, Bad & the Beautiful depicting Lana Turner and Kirk Douglas, The Ghost Goes West with Robert Donat and Jean Parker, Commando Cody chapter 1 card with great art, Missile Monsters showing wacky sci-fi art, Gorgo with great art of terrorizing monster, It’s Love I’m After with Bette Davis, Olivia De Havilland, and Leslie Howard, Robin Hood with great cartoon art, and The Monster that Challenged the World with art of the creature and victim.
Three surprising results from the auction that closed on March 13 were a Japanese Return of the Jedi commercial poster for $604, British Babette Goes to War quad for $405, and Danish Safari poster for $355.
eMoviePoster doesn’t just auction movie posters. They also auction many tens of thousands of vintage stills, lobby cards, as well as scripts, all sorts of special posters (travel, war, and limited edition prints), autographed items, and more.
Their next major auction will be the Spring Major Auction, which runs from April 22 to May 3. They are accepting consignments on single items to collections of thousands for major auctions and weekly events. The consignment deadline for the Spring Major Auction is March 23. Collectors and consigners can learn more about consigning to them for any of their auctions on their Consign Page, or sign up to start bidding via their Registration Page.
