NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #35 * CGC 3.0

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Title: ADVENTURE COMICS No. 35
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: February, 1939
Description: CGC certified: G/VG (3.0). Grader's notes: "Staple detached bottom of cover; staple detached top of front cover; tape bottom of spine; moderate spine splits to cover." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 2.0 sold for $440 in 2012; a 3.5 sold for $418 in 2010. More recently, a 0.5 sold for $576 in 3/22, and a 1.0 sold for $192 in 8/22.

CGC Census: 16 graded copies (10 Universal, 6 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Fred Guardineer. Scripts: Sheldon Moldoff, Leo O'Mealia, Fred Schwab, Gardner Fox, Jerry Siegel, Bill Ely, Jim Chambers, Bob Kane, Ed Winiarski, Tom Hickey, Bill Finger, Fred Guardineer, Ken Browne. Art: Sheldon Moldoff, Leo O'Mealia, Fred Schwab, George Newman, Joe Shuster, Bill Ely, Jim Chambers, Bob Kane, Ed Winiarski, Tom Hickey, Fred Guardineer, Ken Browne. Great Guardineer: Fred Guardineer's cover pits a lumberjack against an ornery eagle, a wild scenario that must have captured kids' imaginations at crowded Depression-era newsstands. Although Guardineer was one of the most solid draftsmen of the Golden Age, he's not always given his proper due. According to the late comics historian Dylan Williams, "Sadly, Guardineer got a short straw in the history of comics. His work has been slighted in a few gossip-minded books, and even by a nostalgic Jules Feiffer in his Great Comic Book Heroes. The truth is quite different, although it takes some time and an eye to really get his work. Fred Guardineer is one of the great examples of a working guy who spent years making a living producing the highest level of craft in a throwaway medium. His comic drawing is a total package, featuring unwavering design and composition on page after page. It can't be broken up into elements like technical skill or pen line, as each page is a rock solid division of space into captivating shapes."****************************************
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