NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #13 * Siegel & Shuster * Gerber 10""

Heading: A Gerber 10""
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Title: NEW ADVENTURE COMICS No. 13
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: February, 1937
Description: CGC certified: Poor (0.5): Restored (C-4). Grader's notes: "New Adv #14 back cover; wrong back cover; RIGHT EDGE OF BACK COVER TRIMMED; color touch on full left & full bottom front cover; heavy tape interior front cover; heavy tape spine; large, multiple tears w/ tape page(s) last; piece added with tape spine C-4." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported Restored sales in any grade. Only four reported sales in any grade, the lowest-graded sale being a 1.5 that sold for $1015 in 2016.

Overstreet: "Rare." CGC Census: 11 graded copies (8 Universal, 1 Conserved, 2 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 10 ("Unique: Less than 5 copies known").

Credits: Cover: Whitney Ellsworth. Scripts: Harold Sherman, Russell Cole, Bill Patrick, Merna Gamble, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Creig Flessel?, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Vin Sullivan, Ellis Edwards, Al Zoesch, Richard Speed?, Jerry Siegel. Art: Homer Fleming, Russell Cole, Bill Patrick, Frank Battifarano, Merna Gamble, Munson Paddock, Creig Flessel, Leo O'Mealia, Tom Cooper, Alex Blum, Henry Kiefer, Vin Sullivan, Tom Hickey, Ellis Edwards, Bill Carney, Sven Elven, Richard Speed?, Joe Shuster.The Makings of DC: "Wheeler-Nicholson started working with a better distributor to get his comics to [the] newsstands. A company called Independent News, whose owners also conveniently had a printing business that could produce the covers for National's titles starting with New Fun No. 4. Independent's principal owner, Harry Donenfeld, was very interested in this new field of comics, and was ready to help finance Wheeler-Nicholson's expension." — Paul Levitz, 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Taschen: 2010, p. 13.

Index Vex: Have you been vexed by years of failure to score a copy of this tuff-to-find mag? We're not surprised — New Adventure #13 is the only pre-hero DC to score a "10" on the Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index.****************************************
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