DETECTIVE COMICS #13 * CGC 6.0 Restored

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Title: DETECTIVE COMICS No. 13
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.]
Date Published: March, 1938
Description: CGC certified: Fine (6.0). Restored (C-1). "Grader's notes: Light creasing to cover; multiple stain front cover; spine reinforced; spine split sealed center & bottom spine C-1; very light tears to cover". Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A Restored 7.5 (MP) sold for $1200 in 2012; a Restored 7.5 (SP) sold for $1673 in 2006. For comparison purposes, a Universal 5.5 sold for $6300 in 8/18.

CGC Census: 25 graded copies (15 Universal, 1 Conserved, 9 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 6 ("Uncommon: 50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Creig Flessel?, Stan Asch, Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely), Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Vin Sullivan (credited as Paul Dean), Jerry Siegel (credited as Jerome Siegel), Russell Cole, Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming). Art: Creig Flessel, Stan Asch, Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely), Sven Elven, Tom Hickey (signed as TH), Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster), Russell Cole, Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming).More About the Major: "Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson was called 'the Major' for the simple reason that he actually was one. In his service to the U.S. Cavalry from 1917 to 1923, the Major became a decorated war hero, traveling from the Philippines to Mexico, battling both invaders and natural disasters in a mixture of genuine American heroism and wartime exaggeration. His life read like the biography of a president or a secret agent: he helped hunt down Pancho Villa in 1916 and ended up in Paris, where he bacame infatuated by a woman named Elsa. He was full of his own amazing stories, but only he knew which ones were true. He spoke out against President Warren G. Harding and may have even been the victim of an assassination attempt. But after all of these adventures, he ran smack-dab into the Depression and back into the true love of his youth: writing." — Brad Ricca, Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Creators of Superman. St. Martin's Press, 2014, p. 103.****************************************
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