ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #13 * 8 Graded Copies

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Title: ALL-AMERICAN COMICS No. 13
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: All-American Comics Inc.]
Date Published: April, 1940
Description: CGC certified: Good (2.0): Qualified. Grader's notes: "Tape centerfold; heavy cover tanning; heavy tape interior spine; heavy tape spine; staples replaced." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No Qualified sales. A Restored 5.5 (SP) sold for $287 in 2007. For comparison purposes, an unrestored 3.0 sold for $455 in 2018.

CGC Census: 8 graded copies (6 Universal, 1 Qualified, 1 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 5 ("Average: 1000-2000 copies").

Credits: Cover: Ben Flinton. Scripts: Jon Blummer, Al Smith, Gene Byrnes, Robert Ripley, A.W. Nugent, Edwina Dumm, Edwin Alger, Carl Claudy, Sheldon Mayer, Art Helfan, Jerry Siegel? Art: Jon Blummer, Al Smith, Gene Byrnes, Robert Ripley, A.W. Nugent, Edwina Dumm, Edwin Alger, Ben Flinton, Stan Asch, Sheldon Mayer, Art Helfant, Bill Smith. Marginalizing Max: "At the end of 1938, [Max] Gaines became the principal and Jack Liebowitz the minority owner of All-American Comics. Soon All-American was bringing out Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman, and other profitable characters. Liebowitz was mostly content to let Gaines and his young editor Sheldon Mayer run All-American, but he applied a firmer hand to Detective's 'DC' line.... He didn't see this as just another racket to suck dry and discard. He saw something that could be built and sustained here, a kind of entertainment that kids liked better than pulps and would continue to if given reason to keep coming back." — G. Jones, Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book. Basic Books: 2004, p. 164.****************************************
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