MORE FUN COMICS #39 * CGC 3.5 * 7 copies on Census

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 39
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: January, 1939
Description: CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Grader's notes: "Stain bottom of front cover; staple detached bottom of cover; large spine split bottom of spine; light rippling to cover." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 4.0 sold for $691 in 2012.

Overstreet: "Xmas cover." CGC Census: 7 graded copies (6 Universal, 1 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Jim Chambers, Fred Schwab, Jerry Siegel, Joe Donohoe, Bob Kane, John Hampton, Sheldon Moldoff, Bob Hersch, and Bernard Baily. Art: Jim Chambers, Fred Schwab, Bill Ely, Joe Shuster, Joe Donohoe, Ed Winiarski, Bob Kane, John Hampton, Homer Fleming, Sheldon Moldoff, Bob Jenney, Rusty Lehman, Tom Hickey, and Bernard Baily.Tapped by Taschen: The DC Universe Collection copy of More Fun Comics #39 is illustrated in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (page 28), with the caption: "Stone Age readers delighted to the masterful rendering of another legendary illustrator who worked for DC for decades. [Cover artist Creig] Flessel's last work for the company appeared in Prez #4 (March 1974)."****************************************
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