NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #22 * Taschen Copy

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Title: NEW ADVENTURE COMICS No. 22
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1937
Description: CGC certified: Poor (0.5): Conserved. Grader's notes: "Color copy cover; panel color copy page(s) 3,4,5 & 22; spine reinforced; tear seals interior Conserved." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest-graded Restored copy is a 7.0 (SA) that sold for $575 in 2014. For comparison purposes, the lowest-graded Universal is a 2.5 that sold for $449 in 2011.

Overstreet: "Xmas cover." CGC Census: 14 graded copies (12 Universal, 3 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 8 ("Rare: 11-20 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Homer Fleming, Tom Hickey, Bill Ely, Merna Gamble, Jerry Siegel, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Ray Burley, Vin Sullivan, Ellis Edwards, Russell Cole, Richard Speed? Art: Homer Fleming, Tom Hickey, Bill Ely, Merna Gamble, Joe Shuster, Alex Blum, Ray Burley, Munson Paddock, Vin Sullivan, Sven Elven, Ellis Edwards, Tom Cooper?, Russell Cole, Richard Speed?Tapped by Taschen: The DC Universe Collection copy of New Adventure Comics #12 is illustrated in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (p. 13), captioned: "Not to be confused with Hope Hazard, just plain 'G-Woman' was June Justis, a federal investigator whose adventures were even more moribund that Hazard's. By now it was becoming clear that the two- and three-page serialized format, inspired by newspaper strips, was vitiating the stories' suspense, especially when months elapsed between installments."****************************************
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