MORE FUN COMICS #29 * CGC 3.0 * Snow Job

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 29
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: February, 1938
Description: CGC certified: G/VG (3.0). Grader's notes: "Light pieces out to cover; light staining to cover; light tears to cover; moderate spine splits to cover; moderate staple rust." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 2.0 sold for $350 in 2010.

CGC Census: 16 graded copies (13 Universal, 3 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 6 ("Uncommon: 50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: Vin Sullivan. Scripts: Jerry Siegel, Creig Flessel, Russell Cole, Sven Elven, Leo O'Mealia, Vin Sullivan, Whitney Ellsworth, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Gill Fox. Art: Bill Ely, Joe Shuster, Creig Flessel, Tom Hickey, Russell Cole, Sven Elven, Homer Fleming, Leo O'Mealia, Vin Sullivan, Whitney Ellsworth, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Gill Fox, Henry Kiefer.Snow Job: A wiseguy kid mocks his prunefaced teacher with an unflattering snowma'am on Sullivan's cover. Early More Fun mags offered a kind of kiddie version of the Saturday Evening Post's celebrated covers, illustrating the small but significant rituals of everyday American life with gentle observational humor. The tone of these covers was in keeping with Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's own personality, as an expansive, good-natured, fair-minded sort of gent. But as the Major was ousted and fast-talking, double-dealing Harry Donenfeld took control, DC's friendly public persona, as embodied by Sullivan's whimsical covers, belied the cold-blooded business ethos of the emergent pulp-paper juggernaut.****************************************
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