MORE FUN COMICS #45 * 8 on Census * Only 3 Recorded Sales

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 45
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: July, 1939
Description: CGC certified: VG/Fine (5.0): Restored (C-1). Grader's notes: "Light creasing to cover; light spine stress lines to cover; light staining to cover; small amount of glue on spine; very light tears to cover." Off-white to white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No Restored sales. Only 3 reported Universal sales in any grade, the lowest being a 6.5 (Billy Wright pedigree) that sold for $1673 in 2012.

CGC Census: 8 graded copies (5 Universal, 3 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: Uncommon ("50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: J. R. Flanagan. Scripts: Tom Hickey, Fred Schwab, Joe Donohoe, Joe Sulman, Bob Jenney, Homer Fleming, Bob Hirsch, Terry Gilkison, Sheldon Moldoff, Bo Hampton, Jerry Siegel, Bernard Baily. Art: Tom Hickey, Fred Schwab, Joe Donohoe, Joe Sulman, Bob Jenney, Homer Fleming, Rusty Lehman, Terry Gilkison, Sheldon Moldoff, Bo Hampton, Joe Shuster, Bernard Baily.Chabon says: "Inside the covers — whence today there wafts an inevitable flea-market smell of rot and nostalgia — the comic book of 1939 was, artistically and morphologically, in a far more primitive state. As with all mongrel art forms and pidgin languages, there was, in the beginning, a necessary, highly fertile period of genetic and grammatical confusion. Men who had been reading newspaper comics strips and pulp magazines for most of their lives, many of them young and inexperienced with the pencil, the ink brush, and the cruel time constraints of piecework, struggled to see beyond the strict spatial requirements of the newspaper strip, on the one hand, and the sheer overheated wordiness of the pulp on the other." — Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Klay. Random House: 2000, p. 75.****************************************
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