NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #29 * Flessel * Kane * Moldoff

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Title: NEW ADVENTURE COMICS No. 29
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: August, 1938
Description: CGC certified: Fair/Good (1.5). Grader's notes: "Heavy creasing to cover; heavy tears to cover; large piece reattached with tape full left of back cover; moderate soiling on cover." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest-graded Universal sale is a 3.0 that sold for $1800 in 8/22.

CGC Census: 14 graded copies (8 Universal, 1 Qualified, 5 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Fred Guardineer, Bob Kane, Jim Chambers, Jerry Siegel, Walter Wellman, Bill Ely, Fred Schwab, Ed Winiarski, Sven Elven, Bill Ely, Russell Cole, Tom Hickey. Art: Fred Guardineer, Bob Kane, Jim Chambers, Joe Shuster, Walter Wellman, Bill Ely, Fred Schwab, Ed Winiarski, Sven Elven, Bill Ely, Russell Cole, Tom Hickey, Sheldon Moldoff. The Major's French Connection: Another dynamic cover by Creig Flessel, this time featuring a kepi-wearing French Foreign Legionnaire clobbering a phalanx of scimitar-swinging Muslim attackers. The image hints at the building tensions between France and the Arab world on the eve of WWII, just about the time Albert Camus was writing The Stranger, with it's pivotal Frenchman-kills-Arab sequence, and reflects a strain of triumphalist French imagery that was popular at the time — imagery that Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, who lived in Paris with his wife not long before this mag was created, would certainly have been familiar with.
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