MORE FUN COMICS #49 * Flessel * Moldoff * Baily

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 49
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: November, 1939
Description: CGC certified: VG (4.0). Grader's notes: "Ink lift front cover; light creasing to cover; light pieces out to cover; light staining to cover." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 5.0 sold for $1200 in 5/22.

CGC Census: 14 graded copies (13 Universal, 1 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: Uncommon ("50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Tom Hickey, Sheldon Moldoff, Joe Sulman, Paul Lauretta, Bernard Baily, Jerry Siegel, Bob Hirsch, Homer Fleming, Terry Gilkison, Joe Donohoe, Jack Lehti, Bart Tumey. Art: Tom Hickey, Sheldon Moldoff, Joe Sulman, Paul Lauretta, Bernard Baily, Mart Bailey, Rusty Lehman, Homer Fleming, Joe Donohoe, Terry Gilkison, Jack Lehti, Bart Tumey.Chabon: "Pretty women, as a requisite arrow in every boy cartoonist's quiver, fared somewhat better, but the men tended to stand around in wrinkleless suits that looked stamped from stovepipe tin and in hats that appeared to weigh more than the automobiles, ill at ease, big-chinned, punching one another in their check-mark noses. Circus strong men, giant Hindu manservants, and breechclouted jungle lords invariably sported fanciful musculature, eyeceps and octoceps and beltoids, and abdomens like fifteen racked pool balls. Knees and elbows bent at painful, double-jointed angles. The color was murky at best, and at worst there was hardly any color at all. Sometimes everything was just two tones of red, or two of blue. — Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Klay. Random House: 2000, p. 76.****************************************
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