DETECTIVE COMICS #14 * Creig Flessel * Siegel & Shuster

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Title: DETECTIVE COMICS No. 14
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.]
Date Published: April, 1938
Description: CGC certified: Good (2.0): Restored (C-4). Grader's notes: "Detached centerfold; reattached with tape cover; color touch on right top & full top & full left front cover; heavy creasing to cover; heavy tape interior cover; pieces added right top front cover A-4; tear seals right center & left bottom front cover C-1." Slightly brittle pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A Restored 1.8 (SA) sold for $625 in 2012. For comparison purposes, an unrestored 3.0 sold for $3200 in 8/18.

CGC Census: 16 graded copies (10 Universal, 1 Conserved, 5 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Gill Fox?, Creig Flessel?, Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely), Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming), Tom Hickey?, Vin Sullivan, Russell Cole, Jerry Siegel, (credited as Jerome Siegel), Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. Art: Gill Fox, Creig Flessel, Bill Ely (credited as Will Ely), Homer Fleming (credited as H. Fleming), Tom Hickey (signed as TH), Russell Cole, Joe Shuster (credited as Shuster), Sven Elven.More About the Major: "The Major had grown up on Kipling and knew the power of a good sentence, so he began a new career by crafting his own. Drawing on his army experience, he wrote hundreds of stories, poems, and wartime accounts for the adventure pulps of the early twentieth century, before the science fiction and weird stuff became popular. His style was concise but bombastic, romantic but real. His stories — many anonymous, many not — were dust-filled, sun-drenched battle tales full of horses, honor, and boys made men." — 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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