MORE FUN COMICS #10 * Siegel & Shuster

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 10
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: More Fun Inc.]
Date Published: May, 1936
Description: CGC certified: Good- (1.8). Grader's notes: "Spine of cover completely split & front cover detached." Off-white to white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 0.5 (no grade, coverless) sold for $200 in 2014; next-lowest grade is a 4.5 that sold for $1673 in 2010.

Overstreet: "Last Henri Duval by Siegel & Shuster." CGC Census: 10 graded copies (8 Universal, 2 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Vin Sullivan. Scripts: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Vin Sullivan, Russell Cole, Ken Fitch, Whitney Ellsworth, Tom Cooper, Al Stahl, Mary Patrick, Oliver Brault, Jerry Siegel, Stan Randall, and J. Muselli. Art: Vin Sullivan, W. C. Brigham, Russell Cole, Raymond Perry, Creig Flessel, Leo O'Mealia, Whitney Ellsworth, Pete Alvarado, Tom Cooper, Al Stahl, Henry Kiefer, Clem Gretter, Harlan Haskins, Joe Shuster, Stan Randall, Leslie Ross, Paul Ferrer?, Harold Sherman, Sven Elven, and Bill Patrick.Sullivan Speaks: The Major's early mags were a perfect haven for Vin Sullivan, who didn't have the illustration skills to make it as an action/adventure artist, but found a comfy niche drawing gag covers geared towards tots. "[I was] a cartoonist. I'm not an artist, really.... I didn't have the talent (laugh). The covers were mostly straight — dramatic, and all that. I'm not good at that. I can draw cartoons." — Vin Sullivan interviewed by David Armstrong, 1998. Comic Book Historians YouTube channel.****************************************
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