MORE FUN COMICS #50 * CGC 4.5 * White Pages

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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 50
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1939
Description: CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). Grader's notes: "Tape cover; tape interior cover; light creasing to cover; light tears to cover." White pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: A 4.5 sold for $1373 in 11/22.

CGC Census: 12 graded copies (9 Universal, 3 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: Uncommon ("50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: Fred Guardineer. Scripts: Tom Hickey, Alan Sulman, Paul Lauretta, Bernard Baily, Jerry Siegel, Bob Hirsch, Homer Fleming, Terry Gilkison, Joe Donohoe, Jack Lehti, Bart Tumey. Art: Tom Hickey, Joe Sulman, Paul Lauretta, Bernard Baily, Mart Bailey, Rusty Lehman, Homer Fleming, Terry Gilkison, Joe Donohoe, Jack Lehti, Bart Tumey.The Marketplace of Ten-Cent Dreams: "But most of all, comic books suffered not from insufficient artwork — for there was considerable vitality here, too, and a collective Depression-born urge toward self-improvement, and even the occasional talented hard-luck competent pencilman — but from a bad case of the carbon copies. Everything was a version, sometimes hardly altered at all, of a newspaper strip or a pulp-radio hero. Radio's Green Hornet spawned various colors of wasp, beetle, and bee; the Shadow was himself shadowed by a legion of suit-wearing, felt-hatted, lama-trained vigilantes; every villainess was a thinly disguised Dragon Lady. Consequently, the comic book, almost immediately upon its invention, or soon thereafter, began to languish, lacking purpose or distinction. There was nothing here one could not find done better, or cheaper, somewhere else (and on the radio one could have it for free)."

"Then, in June 1938, Superman appeared.... The form began finally to emerge from its transitional funk, and to articulate a purpose for itself in the marketplace of ten-cent dreams." — Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier & Klay. Random House: 2000, pp. 76-77.****************************************
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