NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #16 * 1st Non-Funny Cover

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Title: NEW ADVENTURE COMICS No. 16
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: June, 1937
Description: CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Grader's notes: "Heavy creasing to cover; light staple rust; moderate bends to cover; moderate staining to cover." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: A 3.5 sold for $545 in 2003. More recently, a 0.5 (incomplete) sold for $650 in 12/22. Few recent sales in any grade.

Overstreet: "1st non-funny cover." CGC Census: 10 graded copies (8 Universal, 2 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 8 ("11-20 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Jerry Siegel, Bill Ely, Joe Donohoe, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Homer Fleming, Russell Cole, Henry Kiefer, Leo O'Mealia, Whitney Ellsworth, Bill Patrick, Vin Sullivan, Merna Gamble, Bill Carney, Creig Flessel, Ed Winiarski. Art: Joe Shuster, Bill Ely, Joe Donohoe, Sven Elven, Homer Fleming, Russell Cole, Henry Kiefer, Leo O'Mealia, Whitney Ellsworth, Bill Patrick, Munson Paddock, Vin Sullivan, Merna Gamble, Bill Carney, Alex Blum, Creig Flessel, Tom Hickey, Ed Winiarski.The Dope on Donenfeld, Pt. 3: "The risqué publishing line fit well with some of the connections the Damon Runyonesque Donenfeld made on the shadier sides of New York's streets, and it kept his printing presses rolling. The pulps also led to an opportunity to acquire a failing distribution company, Eastern News, which Donenfeld and his partners reshaped into Independent News.... Although it's likely that Donenfeld and his partners quietly retained interests in pulp magazines past the war years, by the mid-1930s Fiorello LaGuardia had become mayor of New York and was using legal leverage to push the racier magazines off newsstands. One of Donenfeld's employees took the rap (and a jail term) in a clash with the reform administration, and the magazines were toned down... slightly." — Paul Levitz, 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Taschen: 2010, pp. 13, 15.****************************************
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