MORE FUN COMICS #46 * Flessel * Baily * Siegel & Shuster

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 46
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: August, 1939
Description: CGC certified: F/VF (7.0): Restored (C-2). Grader's notes: "TOP EDGE TRIMMED; light scuffing to cover; moderate creasing to cover; pieces added right top front cover C-2; small amount of color touch on right top front cover." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Closest Restored sale is a 3.0 (SP, trimmed) that sold for $225 in 2006. For comparison purposes, an unrestored 7.0 sold for $748 in 2005.

CGC Census: 15 graded copies (10 Universal, 3 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: Uncommon ("50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Tom Hickey, Fred Schwab, Joe Donohoe, Joe Sulman, Bob Jenney, Homer Fleming, Jerry Siegel, Terry Gilkison, Bob Hirsch, Jack Lehti, Bernard Baily. Art: Tom Hickey, Fred Schwab, Joe Donohoe, Joe Sulman, Bob Jenney, Homer Fleming, Joe Shuster, George Papp, Terry Gilkison, Rusty Lehman, Jack Lehti, Bernard Baily.Creig Cover: A man and a boy ride raging rapids towards certain doom. The Golden Age comics industry was itself a sort of life raft for young artists for whom loftier avenues of self-expression were denied. "In the pursuit of a quick buck, a splashy novelty, some relief from their own lonely anxiety, they invented a cultural form that came like a revelation to kids of every class and ethnicity." — G. Jones, Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book. Basic: 2004, p. xv.

Chabon, On and On: "At first, and until very recently in 1939, comic books had in fact been nothing more than reprint digests of the more popular strips, uprooted from their newspaper homes and forced, not without violence and scissoring, between a pair of cheap glossy covers. The strips' measured, three-to-four panel pacing, with Friday cliffhangers and Monday recapitulations, suffered in the more spacious confines of the 'funny book,' and what felt stately, thrilling, or hilarious when doled out in spoonfuls on a daily basis seemed a jerky, repetitive, static, and unnecessarily protracted business in the pages of, say, More Fun (1937)." — Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Klay. Random House: 2000, pp. 75-76.****************************************
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