DETECTIVE COMICS #11 * Siegel & Shuster * Slam Bradley

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Title: DETECTIVE COMICS No. 11
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.]
Date Published: January, 1938
Description: CGC certified: Good- (1.8). Restored (C-3). Grader's notes: "Detached centerfold; detached cover; front & back cover taped together; married and detached back cover; color touch on spine; piece added with tape right center & left bottom front cover C-3". Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A Restored 2.0 (SA) sold for $1200 in 2016; a Restored 1.0 (incomplete) sold for $1135 in 2016. For comparison purposes, a Universal 1.5 (Crippen copy) sold for $2880 in 11/20.

CGC Census: 26 graded copies (15 Universal, 1 Conserved, 10 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Creig Flessel?, Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely), Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Whitney Ellsworth, Russell Cole (credited as Alger), Jerry Siegel (credited as Jerome Siegel), Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming). Art: Creig Flessel, Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely), Sven Elven, Tom Hickey (signed as TH), Russell Cole (credited as Alger), Joe Shuster, Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming).More About the Major: "Looking for a new idea, the Major saw the new British Comix Cuts, the Funnies consisting of new material on newsstands. According to Lloyd Jacquet, the Major 'knew that the American presentation of such material would have to be different, and merely importing or translating European-produced features for republication here was not the answer.' Wheeler-Nicholson aimed for something as inherently American as baseball or jazz. His plans to publish a comic book of all-new content had been attempted before by others, however, none had lasted. It was an audacious idea since the comics that were selling on the newsstands were mostly reprints of familiar stories from newspapers." — Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, "The Major Who Made Comics," Famous First Edition: New Fun #1, C-63. DC: 2019 (unpaginated).****************************************
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