ALL-AMERICAN COMICS #14 * 9 Graded Copies

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Title: ALL-AMERICAN COMICS No. 14
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: All-American Comics Inc.]
Date Published: May, 1940
Description: CGC certified: Fair/Good (1.5). Grader's notes: "Detached centerfold; spine of cover completely split & cover detached; tape residue left bottom of front cover." Slightly brittle pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 0.5 (incomplete) sold for $31 in 2014.

CGC Census: 9 graded copies (9 Universal, none Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 5 ("Average: 1000-2000 copies").

Credits: Cover: Jon Blummer. Scripts: Jerry Siegel, Al Smith, Gene Byrnes, Robert Ripley, Jon Blummer, Edwina Dumm, A.W. Nugent, Edwin Alger, Carl Claudy, Art Helfant. Art: Bill Smith, Al Smith, Gene Byrnes, Robert Ripley, Jon Blummer, Edwina Dumm, A.W. Nugent, Edwin Alger, Stan Asch, Sheldon Mayer, Art Helfant.Hop Harrigan: Hop Harrigan leaps for life on Jon Blummer's cover, his final cover appearance before Green Lantern takes over as All-American's resident cover boy. Hop Harrigan was one of the first and foremost aviation heroes of the Golden Age, prefiguring rival flyboy characters like Hillman's "Airboy" and "Flying Dutchman." Harrigan remained reasonably popular throughout the WWII-fueled Golden Age superhero boom era, and Blummer even toyed with the idea of making Harrigan a full-blown superhero (briefly giving the character a costumed alter ego, "the Guardian Angel," for a few months in 1941).****************************************
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