Heritage’s Movie Poster Auction Catalog

Heritage Auction Galleries of Dallas has an awesome 340-page, full-color catalog of its upcoming Vintage Movie Poster Auction, March 11-12, 2008.

While the catalog covers several genres of film, there are scores of vintage posters and lobby cards of science fiction movie classics such as The Blob, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I Married a Monster from Outer Space, The Time Machine, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Frankenstein. There’s even a poster of The Big Sleep, a film noir private detective classic starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, co-written by Leigh Brackett.

In any case, here are some Mars-related posters up for auction, with the sales estimates taken from the Heritage catalog:

• Red Planet Mars (United Artists, 1952)
Estimate: $400-$800

• Invaders from Mars (20th Century Fox, 1953)
Estimate: $1,000-$2,000

• Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (Universal International, 1953)
Estimate: $200-$400

• The War of the Worlds (Paramount, 1953)
Estimate: $5,000-$8,000

• Devil Girl from Mars (Spartan, 1955)
Estimate: $2,000-$4,000

• It! The Terror from Beyond Space (United Artists, 1958)
Estimate: $300-$500

• The Angry Red Planet (American International, 1960)
Estimate: $300-$600

• Robinson Crusoe on Mars (Paramount, 1964)
Estimate: $300-$500