MORE FUN COMICS #37 * Creig Flessel Cover

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 37
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: November, 1938
Description: CGC certified: G/VG (3.0): Qualified. Grader's notes: "Tape interior cover; light staining to cover; light tears to cover; moderate creasing to cover; staples replaced." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported Qualified sales. A Restored 3.0 (MA) sold for $190 in 2012. For comparison purposes, an unrestored 3.0 sold for $840 in 7/22.

CGC Census: 13 graded copies (11 Universal, 1 Qualified, 1 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Jim Chambers, Sheldon Moldoff, Bob Jenney, Bill Ely, Bob Kane, Joe Donohoe, Stan Asch, Terry Gilkison, Bob Hirsch, Jerry Siegel, Bernard Baily. Art: Jim Chambers, Sheldon Moldoff, Bob Jenney, Tom Hickey, Bill Ely, Homer Fleming, Ed Winiarski, Bob Kane, Joe Donohoe, Stan Asch, Terry Gilkison, Rusty Lehman, Joe Shuster, Bernard Baily.Ashcan Adman: Dog bites footballer's arse, rips the seat of his trous. Flessel's cover illustration combines the cartoonishness of Vin Sullivan with the professional polish of a would-be advertising artist. Flessel dreamed of landing a prestigious ad-man gig, and considered comics to be a temporary way station on the road to his big break. It didn't quite work out that way, but back then, for most artists, the concept of a career in comics was absurd. As Flessel told the Comics Journal in 2001, "It was hairy. You couldn't see a future. Even after the comic books were put out, they didn't sell.... I couldn't see any light at the end of the tunnel. It was just dark, dark, dark. Even though they're paying you $5 a page, you'd have to do five pages... [and then] you would have to repeat it. I didn't know if, had I stayed in comic books, I would have had the staying power maintain the workload."****************************************
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