NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #17 * 1st Nadir, Master of Magic

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Title: NEW ADVENTURE COMICS No. 17
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: July, 1937
Description: CGC certified: VG- (3.5): Qualified. Grader's notes: "Married and detached cover; tape interior cover; light creasing to cover; light tears to cover; moderate soiling on cover." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported Qualified sales. A Restored 4.5 (SA) sold for $690 in 2010. For comparison purposes, a Universal 5.0 (lowest-graded copy) sold for $1425 in 2011. No reported sales in any grade since 2012.

Overstreet: "Nadir, Master of Magic begins, ends #30." CGC Census: 8 graded copies (3 Universal, 2 Qualified, 3 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Homer Fleming, Bill Ely, Russell Cole, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Creig Flessel, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Bob Hermans, Joe Donohoe, Whitney Ellsworth, Merna Gamble, Ellis Edwards, Jerry Siegel, Richard Speed? Art: Homer Fleming, Bill Ely, Russell Cole, Tom Hickey, Creig Flessel, Sven Elven, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Bob Hermans, Joe Donohoe, Whitney Ellsworth, Merna Gamble, Alex Blum, Munson Paddock, Ellis Edwards, Joe Shuster, Richard Speed?Tapped by Taschen: The DC Universe Collection copy of New Adventure Comics #17 is illustrated in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (p. 25), captioned: "The Major's titles were a curious hodgepodge of state-of-the-art graphic storytelling and antiquated techniques, cobbled together as they were from sample strips by new talent trying to break into newspaper syndication and veterans in the twilight of their careers. [Artist Munson] Paddock, then 51, was one of the latter. Since 1907 he had been rendering in a style influenced by Charles Dana Gibson, and his approach to formal elements such as balloons and captions was more reminiscent of Richard F. Outcault than Chester Gould."****************************************
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