ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #1 * 1st Gaines-Liebowitz Publication

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Title: ALL-AMERICAN COMICS No. 1
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: All-American Comics Inc.]
Date Published: April, 1939
Description: CGC certified: Good (2.0): Restored (C-2). Grader's notes: "Spine of cover completely split & re-attached with tape; tape cover; tape interior cover; pieces added front cover C-2; small amount of color touch on front cover." Off-white to white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A Restored 1.5 (C-1) sold for $325 in 2017.

Overstreet: "Hop Harrigan (1st app.), Scribbly by Mayer (1st DC app.), Toonerville Folks, Ben Webster, Spot Savage, Mutt & Jeff, Red White & Blue (1st app.), Adventures in the Unknown, Tippie, Reg'lar Fellers, Skippy, Bobby Thatcher, Mystery Men of Mars, Daisybelle, Wiley of West Point begin." CGC Census: 31 graded copies (19 Universal, 12 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 6 ("Uncommon: 50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: Sheldon Mayer. Scripts: Jerry Siegel?, Al Smith, Edwina Dumm, Percy Crosby, A. W. Nugent, Gene Byrnes, Jon Blummer, Sheldon Mayer, Carl Claudy, Edwin Alger, Fontaine Fox, George Storm, Richard Rick. Art: Bill Smith, Al Smith, Edwina Dumm, Percy Crosby, A. W. Nugent, Gene Byrnes, Jon Blummer, Sheldon Mayer, Stan Asch, Calvin Fader?, Harry Lampert, Walter Galli, Fontaine Fox, George Storm, Richard Rick.1st Gaines-Liebowitz Mag: "All American Publications, DC's sister company owned by Jack Liebowitz and M.C. Gaines, announced itself with the debut of All-American Comics. Edited by Sheldon Mayer, the title contained newspaper reprints and puzzle pages alongside original material such as Mayer's own 'Scribbly,' the semi-autobiographical adventures of a boy cartoonist. The features 'Hop Harrigan' and 'Red, White, and Blue' also debuted in this issue." — Alan Cowsill, Alex Irvine and others, DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle. DK Publishing: 2010, p. 24.****************************************
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