Today I continue my series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads from my personal collection:

• Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
• Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
• Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
• The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
• By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
• Kidnapped into Pictures
• Handcuffs I Have Met
• Houdini Breaks Own Record in “The Master Mystery”
• Why “The Master Mystery” is a Sure Record-Breaking Serial
• $25 for Houdini’s Secret
• Houdini Made the Kaiser Apologise. The Great Mystic a Victim of Hun Arrogance
• About Publicity

Today I continue my series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads from my personal collection:

• Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
• Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
• Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
• The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
• By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
• Kidnapped into Pictures
• Handcuffs I Have Met
• Houdini Breaks Own Record in “The Master Mystery”
• Why “The Master Mystery” is a Sure Record=Breaking Serial
• $25 for Houdini’s Secret
• Houdini Made the Kaiser Apologise. The Great Mystic a Victim of Hun Arrogance
• About Publicity

Today I continue my series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads from my personal collection:

• Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
• Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
• Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
• The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
• By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
• Kidnapped into Pictures
• Handcuffs I Have Met
• Houdini Breaks Own Record in “The Master Mystery”
• Why “The Master Mystery” is a Sure Record=Breaking Serial
• $25 for Houdini’s Secret
• Houdini Made the Kaiser Apologise. The Great Mystic a Victim of Hun Arrogance
• About Publicity

Today I continue my series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads from my personal collection:

• Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
• Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
• Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
• The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
• By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
• Kidnapped into Pictures
• Handcuffs I Have Met
• Houdini Breaks Own Record in “The Master Mystery”
• Why “The Master Mystery” is a Sure Record=Breaking Serial
• $25 for Houdini’s Secret
• Houdini Made the Kaiser Apologise. The Great Mystic a Victim of Hun Arrogance
• About Publicity

William Pike played Paul Balcom, son of Herbert Balcom, and Paul was engaged to Eva.

“AND I WILL MARRY HER IN SPITE OF YOU,” PAUL TOLD LOCKE

After the mechanical man (Herbert Balcom) was killed, his son, Paul wore the armor to extract his own revenge.

Today I continue my series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads from my personal collection:

• Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
• Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
• Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
• The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
• By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
• Kidnapped into Pictures
• Handcuffs I Have Met
• Houdini Breaks Own Record in “The Master Mystery”
• Why “The Master Mystery” is a Sure Record=Breaking Serial
• $25 for Houdini’s Secret
• Houdini Made the Kaiser Apologise. The Great Mystic a Victim of Hun Arrogance
• About Publicity

Today I continue my series of posts, where I share different Master Mystery Exhibitors’ Ads from my personal collection:

• Houdini Talks About Himself and the Master Mystery
• Ruth Stonehouse Writes Plays When Only Six
• Houdini’s Tame Eagle in “The Master Mystery”
• The Triumph of Science. A Mechanical Man with a Superhuman Brain
• By Request of Hoover Houdini Chaffs Miss Marsh
• Kidnapped into Pictures
• Handcuffs I Have Met
• Houdini Breaks Own Record in “The Master Mystery”
• Why “The Master Mystery” is a Sure Record=Breaking Serial
• $25 for Houdini’s Secret
• Houdini Made the Kaiser Apologise. The Great Mystic a Victim of Hun Arrogance
• About Publicity

Below is an advertisement [Dramatic Mirror September 21, 1918] from my personal collection advertising that the Houdini Serial [AKA The Master Mystery] will be released on the open market plan.

The Master Mystery was released on the open market plan in November of 1918.

The first four episodes was first shown at a special trade show on November 7, 1918 at the Strand Theatre in New York City.

And it made its premier, November 18^th, 1918 in the Saint James Theatre in Boston.

To start the 2023 New Year off, thought I would share a special card with a special message from my personal collection:

The front of the card has a spanish ad for the Houdini Serial, The Master Mystery:

Below is a similiar ad in English:

This card was sent from Holyoke MA to Niagara Falls, NY.

It would have been sent out in the early 1990s:

First Class postage in the US was 29 cents from February 3rd 1991 to January 1, 1995. Prior to that it was 25 cents for the first ounce. In 1995 it was increased to 32 cents for the first ounce.

H A P P Y  N E W  Y E A R ! ! !

Just received the following from David Haversat Zanadu LLC:

We got our hands on a stack of this recently produced poster for Houdini’s Master Mystery. It’s a 24” x 18” heavy stock image containing the plans to cut-out and build your own miniature robot as seen in The Master Mystery starring Harry Houdini. The Robot “The Automation – Q” was the first film to be featured in a film.

Order while supplies last! Email: haversat@gmail.com for details.

Above is what Q looks like if you build him.

History of Paper Robot:

Early 1920’s – Originally in Spanish, M. Barrenchea created the art as a promotional piece geared for children (above)

HHCE Collection

2010 – A repro poster sold out of Spain (above)

http://www.robothut.robotnut.com/houdiniPaperRobotPages.html

2013 – HHCE shares the above 2010 image:

• Houdini – “The Master Mystery” Paper Robot

2014 – Potter and Potter sold an extremely rare original (above)

2018 – HHCE adds (rare) repro poster from Spain to HHCE collection

2020 – HHCE shares image of repro poster from Spain

• Master Mystery Paper Robot Reproduction

2020 – Eddie Guevaro of the House of the Unusual contacts HHCE about buying a copy of my repro poster for his collection

2020 – HHCE lets Eddie know that I am not the maker of the repro poster and only have the one copy

2022 – House of the Unusual releases their version (written in english) of the repro poster, which was proudly added to the HHCE collection via David Haversat

It is a pretty cool piece, and like the Spanish original & repro, it is sure to be a collector’s item in the future.