MORE FUN COMICS #14 * CGC 4.0 * 1st DC App: DR. OCCULT by Siegel & Shuster

Heading: 1st DC Appearance: Dr. Occult
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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 14
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: More Fun Inc.]
Date Published: October, 1936
Description: CGC certified: VG (4.0). Grader's notes: "Staple detached top of cover; light tears to cover; moderate creasing to cover; multiple erasure mark front cover." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: A 4.0 sold for $3360 in 10/21.

Overstreet: "Dr. Occult in costume (1st in color), Superman prototype, 1st DC appearance, continues from The Comics Magazine, ends #17." CGC Census: 32 graded copies (24 Universal, 2 Conserved, 6 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Vin Sullivan. Scripts: W. C. Brigham, Vin Sullivan, Russell Cole, Jerry Siegel, Whitney Ellsworth, Tom Cooper, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Bill Carney, Tom Hickey, Joe Eichberger, Creig Flessel, Paul Ferrer, Ken Fitch, Leo O'Mealia, Homer Fleming, and J. Muselli. Art: W. C. Brigham, Vin Sullivan, Russell Cole, Joe Shuster, Whitney Ellsworth, Tom Cooper, Raymond Perry, Bill Carney, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey, Joe Eichberger, Creig Flessel, Henry Kiefer, Paul Ferrer, Clem Gretter, Leo O'Mealia, Homer Fleming, and Bill Patrick.More About the Major: "No one knows for certain what prompted him to publish original comics at the height of the Depression. Some historians have claimed that the reason was that he didn't have to pay for the rights to newspaper strips. Perhaps that was the necessity that led to the invention, but it sells short the vision Wheeler-Nicholson had for his comics from the very beginning. He didn't just latch on to something someone else had done, cobble his own version together and hope it worked; rather, he had a long-term plan right from the beginning to publish not one but a number of comic magazines based on the pulp model he knew so well." — Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics. Hermes Press: 2018, p. 27.****************************************
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