MORE FUN COMICS #23 * CGC 5.0 * 4th Highest-Graded Copy

Heading: 4th Highest-Graded Copy
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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 23
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: August, 1937
Description: CGC certified: VG/Fine (5.0). Grader's notes: "Light spine stress lines to cover; moderate creasing to cover; moderate staining to cover." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 4.5 sold for $502 in 2010; a 6.5 sold for $977 in 5/21.

CGC Census: 12 graded copies (11 Universal, 1 Restored). This is the 4th highest-graded copy. Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 8 ("Rare: 11-20 copies").

Credits: Cover: Vin Sullivan. Scripts: Bill Ely, Ed Cronin, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey, Jerry Siegel, Vin Sullivan, Raymond Perry, Creig Flessel, Leo O'Mealia, Richard Speed, Russell Cole, Homer Fleming. Art: Bill Ely, Ed Cronin, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey, Joe Shuster, Vin Sullivan, Raymond Perry, Creig Flessel, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Russell Cole, Homer Fleming.Horse Throws Boy, Man Slings Bull: Sullivan's cover depicts a bronco bucking a kid cowboy so hard that his keister radiates stars of pain while his head is halo'd by sweat beads, the unmistakable semaphores of funnybook distress. It's a wonder that nobody has authored an encyclopedia of visual tropes common to comics and cartoons but seldom employed in other art forms, from dotted-line ghosts and Spider-sense tingle marks to people plotzing out of panel in perplexity. Maybe Scott McCloud covered that stuff in his award-winning 1993 book Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art — we wouldn't know, we've never read it. "I don't need any pointy-headed pontificators tellin' me how to read a funnybook" — PBA's Director of Comics.****************************************
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