MORE FUN COMICS #19 * CGC 6.5 * Tied for 2nd Highest-Graded Copy

Heading: Tied for 2nd Highest-Graded Copy
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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 19
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: March, 1937
Description: CGC certified: Fine+ (6.5). Grader's notes: "Light bends to cover; light soiling on cover; light spine stress lines to cover; light wear all corners of cover." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: A 6.5 (Lost Valley pedigree) sold for $1550 in 2005. Only one higher-graded sale: an 8.0 (Edgar Church copy) sold for $5750 in 2013.

CGC Census: 16 graded copies (14 Universal, 1 Conserved, 1 Restored). Tied for 2nd highest-graded copy (there are two 6.5s and one 8.0). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Vin Sullivan. Scripts: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Vin Sullivan, Alexandre Dumas, Russell Cole, Jerry Siegel, Pete De Angelo, Walter Scott, Whitney Ellsworth, Richard Speed, Frank Little, Laidlaw. Art: W. C. Brigham, Vin Sullivan, Sven Elven, Russell Cole, Joe Shuster, Tom Hickey, Pete De Angelo, Creig Flessel, Raymond Perry, Tom Cooper, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Whitney Ellsworth, Frank Little, Laidlaw, Homer Fleming, Richard Speed.Sullivan cover: Bunny balks as boy bags bear. Did parents of the day glance askance at Vin Sullivan's depiction of a tyke with a smoking gun literally loaded for bear? Probably not — Depression-era rural families were accustomed to arming their young'uns to help hunt the family's food. "In the fall, during hunting season, my brother and I would take our Iver Johnsons and go hunting two or three times each week.   Sometimes we would go to the swamps and the woods to hunt....  Usually, we would only get a pheasant or two, as the state had a limit at that time.   We would bring them home and clean them and Mom would fry them like chicken for dinner.   We had no means of refrigeration at that time, so we ate them right away." — Dave Bohn, "Memories of Hunting During the Great Depression." WashingtonCountyInsider.com, November 4, 2023.****************************************
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