CAPES, CROOKS & CLIFFHANGERS: Heroic Serial Posters of the Golden Age

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CAPES, CROOKS & CLIFFHANGERS: Heroic Serial Posters of the Golden Age By John E. Petty and Grey Smith, with a Foreword by Noel Neill Batman! Superman! Flash Gordon! The Green Hornet! Captain Marvel! All of these colorful characters, and many others from the comics, pulps, and radio, made their silver screen debuts as multi-part serials, 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. Now, you can relive these hair-raising chapterplays, and thrill to hundreds of images of rare and seldom-seen movie poster material, in this exciting new book. Stan Lee calls it, "... a page turner...a literary and artistic feast," and Leonard Maltin hails it as "[a] welcome book."

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