NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #28 * CGC 4.0 * Flessel Piracy Cover

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Title: NEW ADVENTURE COMICS No. 28
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: July, 1938
Description: CGC certified: VG (4.0). Grader's notes: "Light bends to cover; light creasing to cover; light soiling on cover; light spine stress lines to cover; light staining to cover; light tears to cover." Light tan to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No recorded sales in this grade. A 2.5 sold for $3978 in 3/23; a 5.5 sold for $2041 in 3/18.

CGC Census: 10 graded copies (8 Universal, 2 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Fred Guardineer, Russell Cole, Jim Chambers, Jerry Siegel, Walter Wellman, Bill Ely, Bob Kane, Ed Winiarski, Leo O'Mealia, Joe Donohoe, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey. Art: Fred Guardineer, Russell Cole, Jim Chambers, Joe Shuster, Walter Wellman, Bill Ely, Bob Kane, Ed Winiarski, Leo O'Mealia, Sheldon Moldoff, Joe Donohoe, Sven Elven, Tom Hickey.Creig Flessel cover: An international scrum of pirates attack an intrepid Yankee seadog, who holds off the sword-and-gun toting louts with a belaying pin and sheer guts. It's a romantic image of seafaring brigandry, harkening to the 19th century piratical fancies of Howard Pyle, with only the right-most bandit's automatic pistol and bandalier indicating a 20th century timeline. By the time this mag entertained young readers, though, this style of piracy was already, for the most part, a thing of the past.

"In the 1930s, piracy was a sophisticated operation, and no longer involved men with cutlasses jumping from one boat to another. No, your 1930s pirate believed in corporate strategy. Victims were chosen after much research. The pirates dressed like businessmen, buying tickets with the other passengers at the China Navigation Company offices in Shanghai.... They had registered companies in the territory, which were said to be governed by formal boards of directors. It was rumoured that some of them were run by attractive Hong Kong Chinese women, but that might have been... fantasies of the British and American press of those days." — "When Piracy Was a Well-Ordered Business," SouthChinaMorningPost.com, April 17, 1999.****************************************
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