ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #10 * White Pages * 11 on Census

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Title: ALL-AMERICAN COMICS No. 10
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: All-American Comics Inc.]
Date Published: January, 1940
Description: CGC certified: VG- (3.5): Restored (C-1). Grader's notes: "Detached front cover; silverfish damage right top of back cover; tape interior cover; taped tear left center of interior spine; moderate spine splits to cover; small amount of glue on spine." White pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No Restored sales in this grade. Lowest Restored sale is a 6.0 (SP) that sold for $133 in 2005. For comparison purposes, an unrestored 2.5 sold for $300 in 3/22.

Overstreet: "Xmas cover." CGC Census: 11 graded copies (8 Universal, 3 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 6 ("Uncommon: 50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: Sheldon Mayer. Scripts: Jerry Siegel, Richard Rick, Al Smith, Percy Crosby, Gene Byrnes, Edwina Dumm, A.W. Nugent, Fontaine Fox, Robert Ripley, Jon Blummer, Edwin Alger, Sheldon Mayer, Carl Claudy, John Wentworth, George Kaufman, Moss Hart. Art: Bill Smith, Richard Rick, Al Smith, Percy Crosby, Gene Byrnes, Edwina Dumm, A.W. Nugent, Fontaine Fox, Robert Ripley, Jon Blummer, Calvin Fader?, Sheldon Mayer, Stan Asch, Walter Galli.Losses and Gaines: "But all was not roses within the new partnership, especially after Donenfeld, in one of his typically impulsive gestures, gave his half of the All-American group to his accountant, Jack Liebowitz. Suddenly, Max found himself partnered with Liebowitz, and they didn't get along. Bill remembers that every afternoon his father would take a taxi to the uptown offices, where he, Liebowitz, and Donenfeld would scream at each other for two hours. Something had to give and that something was Max's patience. In early 1945, he hurled out his ultimatum: 'You buy me out or I'll buy you out.' They bought him out." — Frank Jacobs, The MAD World of William M. Gaines. Lyle Stuart: 1972: p. 59.****************************************
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