NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #21 * CGC 4.0 * Major's Misalliance

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Title: NEW ADVENTURE COMICS No. 21
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: November, 1937
Description: CGC certified: VG (4.0). Grader's notes: "Moderate cover tanning; moderate creasing to cover; moderate soiling on cover." Cream to off-white pages." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 3.5 sold for $766 in 2011; a 6.0 sold for $787 in 2/21.

CGC Census: 13 graded copies (9 Universal, 4 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Homer Fleming, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Russell Cole, Merna Gamble, Jerry Siegel, Ray Burley, Whitney Ellsworth, Richard Speed?, Vin Sullivan, Ellis Edwards, Bill Ely, Gill Fox. Art: Homer Fleming, Tom Hickey, Russell Cole, Merna Gamble, Joe Shuster, Alex Blum, Ray Burley, Whitney Ellsworth, Richard Speed?, Munson Paddock, Vin Sullivan, Sven Elven, Ellis Edwards, Bill Ely, Gill Fox. The Major's Misalliance: "Liebowitz was a precise man, given to measuring risk and reward possibilities carefully, and an early master of the uncertainties of newsstand distribution. Estimating suitable print runs in a fully returnable industry was always a much art as science (DC's extremes ranged between 9 percent of a print run selling on an issue of Jemm, Son of Saturn and 90 percent on a television-fad-fueled issue of Batman). For a distributor, that knowledge to decide how much (and when) to advance payments to a publisher was a powerful tool. The balance was tipping rapidly from Wheeler-Nicholson's dreams to the harder-edged reality of his allies." — Paul Levitz, 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Taschen: 2010, p. 15.

Cover Lover: "This is one of my favorite covers. Besides the terrific artwork, Tarzan has somehow managed to arrive in the wild west to overcome a Native American. And how grand to encourage younger people to be creative." — Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson.****************************************
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