MORE FUN COMICS #35 * CGC 7.0 * 3rd Highest-Graded Copy

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 35
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: September, 1938
Description: CGC certified: F/VF (7.0). Grader's notes: "Ink lift front cover; light creasing to cover; light spine stress lines to cover; light staining to cover. Very minor amount of color touch on cover." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Highest-graded sale is a 3.5 that sold for $840 in 4/22. Curiously, a 1.0 sold for a whopping $1650 in 2010. Rare mag: there are only four reported sales in any grade.

CGC Census: 7 graded copies (7 Universal, 1 Restored). This is the 3rd highest-graded copy. Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Jerry Siegel, Russell Cole, Ken Fitch?, Ed Winiarski, Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff, Joe Donohoe, Fred Schwab, Sven Elven, Stan Asch. Art: Joe Shuster, Russell Cole, Bernard Baily, Bill Ely, Homer Fleming, Ed Winiarski, Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff, Joe Donohoe, Fred Schwab, Sven Elven, Jim Chambers, Stan Asch, Tom Hickey.Early Flessel Cover: A country kid dozes off by a fishin' hole as the local fauna conspire to eat his vittles and dump his bait worms into the lake. It's the same sort of homey bucolic humor that Vin Sullivan excelled at, only now the cover is rendered by the more sophisticated hand of Creig Flessel. Flessel would later achieve some repute for his work on DC's Sandman character, but like so many Golden Age greats, he advanced in the industry by a combination of luck and happenstance, more so than by any editorial recognition of his talent, telling an interviewer in 2001:

"I don't think they were looking for any pedigree or 'Would you do this?' More like, 'You're a live body. What do you want to do? Take this and do it, then.' I realized they were desperate so I had to go out and buy a drawing table. They had just one table that they were doing all of the mechanical work on. So I got a table and managed to find a chair and sat down and they said, 'Here. Do this.' I think I did a couple of center spreads for More Fun. I did [the feature] 'Fishy Frolics,' I did an 'Acorn and Andy' double-spread. Little nonsense cartoons." — Gary Groth, "The Creig Flessel Interview." The Comics Journal, August 22, 2001.****************************************
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