NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #15 * CGC 4.5 * 1st Adventure Logo

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Title: NEW ADVENTURE COMICS No. 15
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: May, 1937
Description: CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). Grader's notes: "Staple detached bottom of cover; light creasing to cover; light foxing to cover; light spine splits to cover." Off-white to white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: Only two Universal sales in any grade: a 4.5 (Lost Valley pedigree) sold for $1200 in 2003, and a 5.0 sold for $1861 in 2013.

Overstreet: "1st Adventure logo; Creig Flessel covers begin, end #31." CGC Census: Only 4 graded copies on the Census as of 2/9/24 (2 Universal, 2 Restored). Of the 2 Universals, one is 5.0, the other is 4.5. Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Ellis Edwards, Russell Cole, Ed Winiarski, Charles Dickens, Merna Gamble, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Whitney Ellsworth, Bill Carney, Bill Patrick, Joe Donohoe, Alex Lovy. Art: Homer Fleming, Ellis Edwards, Russell Cole, Ed Winiarski, Merna Gamble, Creig Flessel, Sven Elven, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Munson Paddock, Whitney Ellsworth, Bill Carney, Alex Blum, Tom Hickey, Bill Patrick, Joe Donohoe, Alex Lovy. The Dope on Donenfeld, Pt. 2: "Among his business ventures, Donenfeld had been a partner with his brothers in a small printing business in the 1920s, and then used that as leverage to become both printer and silent partner in a number of magazines. Frank Armer's pulp magazines were racy, and by the standards of the time often considered pornography; Donenfeld went from being Armer's partner to his competitor, with titles like Hot Tales, and then his successor went Armer went bankrupt." — Paul Levitz, 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Taschen: 2010, p. 13.****************************************
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