MORE FUN COMICS #8 * Early Walt Kelly Art

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Title: MORE FUN No. 8
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: More Fun Magazine Inc.]
Date Published: February, 1936
Description: CGC certified: Poor (0.5): Extensive amateur restoration. Spine split and reinforced with added paper, edges chipped and reinforced with paper, spine and all edges of covers reinforced with tape, ALL EDGES TRIMMED, extensive color touch to edges of front cover. 44 pages (complete). Tan pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

Overstreet: "Oversized, paper cover (10x12"); 1 pg. Kelly art." CGC Census: None (CGC does not offer grading for tabloid-sized comics). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies"). Sales Data: Heritage sold a "Good-" copy for $657.35 in 2006, and they sold an ungraded, incomplete copy in lousy shape for $384 in 9/21.

Credits: Cover: Vin Sullivan. Scripts: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Tom Cooper, Vin Sullivan, Jerry Siegel, Whitney Ellsworth, Walter Scott, Matt Curzon, Stan Randall, John Patterson, Eugene Koscik, Al Whitney, W. C. Brigham, William Cook, Charles Shows, Rosemary Volk, Ray Wardell, Ken Fitch, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Kelly, Al Stahl. Art: Vin Sullivan, W. C. Brigham, Tom Cooper, Joe Shuster, Whitney Ellsworth, Raymond Perry, Matt Curzon, Stan Randall, John Patterson, Eugene Koscik, Al Whitney, Leo O'Mealia, William Cook, Charles Shows, Ray Wardell, Clem Gretter, Sven Elven, Henry Kiefer, Walt Kelly, Al Stahl.Tapped by Taschen: The DC Universe Collection copy of More Fun #8 is illustrated in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (page 23), along with a quote from artist Creig Flessel describing the bohemian ambiance of Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's offices: "The smoke was thicker than you'd see in the comics.... It was a crashing place for everybody: transients, cartoonists, Nicholson's friends, people waiting at a job or killing time, salesmen."****************************************
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