MORE FUN COMICS #44 * 10 on Census, Only 3 Reported Sales

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 44
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: June, 1939
Description: CGC certified: Poor (0.5). Grader's notes: "Back cover missing; chews right top of front cover; moderate creasing to cover; moderate soiling on cover." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade; only 3 reported sales in any grade. Lowest-graded sale is a 3.5 that sold for $2640 in 7/23.

CGC Census: 10 graded copies (10 Universal, none Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: Uncommon ("50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Tom Hickey, Bob Kane, Joe Donohoe, Joe Sulman, Bob Jenney, Homer Fleming, Sheldon Moldoff, Bill Ely, Fred Schwab, Terry Gilkison, Bob Hirsch, Jerry Siegel, Bernard Baily. Art: Tom Hickey, Bob Kane, Joe Donohoe, Joe Sulman, Bob Jenney, Homer Fleming, Sheldon Moldoff, Bill Ely, Fred Schwab, Terry Gilkison, Rusty Lehman, Joe Shuster, Bernard Baily.More Chabon: "The covers were often hand-painted, rather than merely inked and colored, by men with solid reputations in the business, journeymen illustrators who could pull off accurate lab girls in chains and languid, detailed jungle jaguars and muscularly correct male bodies whose feet seemed really to carry their weight. Held in the hand, hefted, those early numbers... with their chromatic crew of pirates, Hindu prisoners, and snap-brim avengers, their abundant typography at once stylish and crude, even today seem to promise adventure of a light but thoroughly nourishing variety. All too often, however, the scene depicted on the label bore no relation to the thin soup of material contained within." — Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Klay. Random House: 2000, pp. 74-75.****************************************
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