MORE FUN COMICS #34 * 12 Copies on Census

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 34
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: August, 1938
Description: CGC certified: G/VG (3.0): Restored (C-1). Grader's notes: "Cover re-attached with glue; heavy creasing to cover; moderate spine stress lines to cover; moderate staining to cover; spine split sealed cover C-1; tear seals cover C-1; very light pieces out to cover." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. The lowest-graded Restored sale is a 6.0 (SA) that sold for $350 in 2015. For comparison purposes, an unrestored 3.0 sold for $401 in 6/19.

CGC Census: 12 graded copies (10 Universal, 2 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Vin Sullivan. Scripts: Jerry Siegel, Bernard Baily, Bob Kane, Russell Cole, Fred Schwab, Sheldon Moldoff, Sven Elven, Paul Gustavson, Stan Asch? Art: Bill Ely, Joe Shuster, Bernard Baily, Ray Burley, Homer Fleming, Ed Winiarski, Bob Kane, Russell Cole, Fred Schwab, Sheldon Moldoff, Sven Elven, Jim Chambers, Paul Gustavson, Stan Asch, Tom Hickey.Forbidden Fruit: A grizzled, gun-toting gaffer chases a juvenile apple poacher off his property on Vin Sullivan's cover. Sullivan's skill as a cartoonist makes it easy for readers to root for the rascally apple thief, just as, in the dark days of the Depression, many Americans found themselves rooting for bank-bandits like John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd. Then, as now, wealth disparities caused many Americans to question the notion that hard work and following the rules were the surest road to success. One wonders what Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, newly ousted from the company he created thanks to Donenfeld's fancy legal footwork, would have made of this cover — would he have identified with the hungry kid pulling a fast one on The Man, or would his sympathies lie with the hard-bitten farmer watching the fruits of his labor vanish in a flurry of flashing feet?****************************************
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