I want the gun and belt pack. Sure, I'd go for the cool leather jacket and mask, but I'd settle for the gun and belt pack 😉 (See other Commando Cody lobbies: Hydrogen Hurricane, Captives of the Zero Hour , Radar Men from the Moon.)
Here's the Mexican lobby card for Fugitive from Sonora (1943). An all-around great looking lobby for this Republic movie.
I wonder if anyone had recorded this? See the not so positive review from the Chicago Tribune toward the end of the post.
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Here's the lively Mexican lobby card for Munster, Go Home!, Los Adorables Monstruos.
Here's the Mexican lobby card for Stranger from Venus (1954), Venus Nos Ataca. A little rough in its transition from left to right, the card's illustration elements are a bit confusing as to what this movie is about. The movie is also known as Immediate Disaster.
A big spider, rock guys, and moon maidens in distress. Must be the 1950s. Not the rip-off done with the illustration in the top right corner. I like the addition of the bubble helmet though. I recall the Flash Gordon model kit came with a bubble helmet. The kit didn't come with a fair maiden clinging to his side, though. Now that would have been some model kit.
One of my favorite serials as well as lobby cards. This Mexican lobby card version for Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938), Un Viaje a Marte, is exciting. Great illustration and the movie scene matches the illustration in the top right corner. Perfect.
Kinetic illustration with heavily shadowed combatants contrasted against a bright color make this Mexican lobby card for Patrulla Koreana a romanticized art piece for the ugly actions of war. (See an alternate version, Los Tigres De Korea.)
Here's a luridly illustrated Mexican lobby card for Urubu (aka Urubu, The Vulture People). Menacing, almost silhouetted people, a bosomy white girl in dire danger (and let's not forget the skimpy, inappropriate clothing, for jungle hiking), make this a memorable lobby. The movie is probably a boring jungle documentary so they had to spice it up somehow.
Here's the Mexican lobby card for Three Hours to Kill, with Dana Andrews and Donna Reed. Nice, action-packed layout, comfortably balanced across the corners with an eye-catching color arrangement. Within a second or two, you know who the leads are (note the two-pistol packing cowboy at top left, in the background, and Donna Reed and Dana Andrews in the foreground), and the potential trouble stirring things up (left and right at bottom, and the inset scene). A sophisticated, well thought through card.
Here’s a very special pressbook from the closet vault. It’s the 12 x 17.5 inches Advertising Book for The Return of Chandu. This, the Publicity Book, and a theater giveaway Chandu Mask were presented in a large, eye-grabbing folder. Quite an impressive promotional presentation for this serial starring Bela Lugosi.
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Pressbook: Return of Chandu (1934)
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