COMMANDER CODY

One Sheet (27" x 41" )
Very Fine Folded
Republic, 1953

There is some tanning around the edges of this poster.

By 1953, the serial format, so popular in the 1930s and 1940s, was ending, succumbing to the rise of television. However, the format still had some life left in it, as proved by this classic science-fiction adventure about Commander Cody (Judd Holdren), a masked scientist/adventurer who sets out to find the cause of dangerous weather and climate changes ravaging the earth. He discovers an alien plot to conquer the planet, aided and abetted by a gang of Earth-born crooks. Commander Cody's character was first seen in an earlier Republic serial, Radar Men from the Moon (1952), starring George Wallace, and continued in Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952) with Holdren before transitioning to television.

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