MORE FUN COMICS #7 * 1st Ish Under MORE FUN" Name"

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Title: MORE FUN No. 7
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: More Fun Magazine Inc.]
Date Published: January, 1936
Description: Poor (0.5): Extensive amateur restoration. Spine split and reinforced with paper, edges of covers heavily chipped and reinforced with paper, spine and all edges of covers reinforced with tape, ALL EDGES TRIMMED, extensive color touches, cover date limned in black ink, chipping to right edge opf all pages. 42 pages only (of 44): INCOMPLETE. Tan pages, edges brittle. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

Overstreet: "Oversized, paper cover; 1 pg. Kelly art." CGC Census: None (CGC does not offer grading for tabloid-sized comics). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 8 ("Rare: 11-20 copies"). Sales Data: Heritage sold an unrestored "Fair" copy for $4080 in 9/21; Heritage sold an unrestored "Poor" copy in truly appalling condition for $241.39 in 2012.

Credits: Cover: Whitney Ellsworth. Scripts: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Ken Fitch, Tom Cooper, Leo O'Mealia, Al Whitney, Walter Scott, Al Stahl, Vin Sullivan, Joe Archibald, John Patterson, Stan Randall, Eugene Koscik, Walt Kelly, Henry Kiefer, Jerry Siegel, Charles Shows, Matt Curzon, Connie Naar, Ray Wardell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Whitney Ellsworth. Art: W. C. Brigham, Clem Gretter, Tom Cooper, Leo O'Mealia, Raymond Perry?, Al Whitney, Al Stahl, Vin Sullivan, John Patterson, Joe Archibald, Stan Randall, Eugene Koscik, Walt Kelly, Henry Kiefer, Joe Shuster, Dick Loederer, Charles Shows, Matt Curzon, Connie Naar, Ray Wardell, Charles Flanders, Whitney Ellsworth.Tapped by Taschen: The DC Universe Collection copy of More Fun #7 is illustrated in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (page 23), with the commentary: "New Fun was renamed More Fun with issue #7. Of the first six New Funs, four cover-featured adventure strips. Now, a decidedly humorous and younger-skewing feature took the cover spot, as if to test who was reading."****************************************
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