NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #36 * CGC 2.0 * Rare, Only 3 Reported Sales

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Title: ADVENTURE COMICS No. 36
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: March, 1939
Description: CGC certified: Good (2.0). Grader's notes: "Heavy spine splits to cover; heavy staining to cover; moderate pieces out to cover." White pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: Only three reported sales in any grade, the lowest being a 4.0 that sold for $1750 in 2014.

Overstreet: "Scarce." CGC Census: 10 graded copies (7 Universal, 1 Qualified, 2 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: J. R. Flanagan. Scripts: Terry Gilkison, Ed Winiarski, Gardner Fox?, Jerry Siegel, Jim Chambers, Fred Schwab, Bill Ely, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Tom Hickey, Bill Finger, Fred Guardineer. Art: Terry Gilkison, Ed Winiarski, George Newman, Joe Shuster, Jim Chambers, Fred Schwab, Bill Ely, Tom Hickey, Bob Kane, Fred Guardineer. Crazy Flanagan cover: Great white hunter pumps python full of hot lead. J.R. Flanagan was an Aussie transplant, the first down-under artist to draw Yankee funnybooks. Besides drawing some of DC's best Golden Age adventure covers in his brief comics career (including the "hippo hunt" cover made nerd-famous by Double Action Comics #2), Flanagan was a successful commercial and pulp artist — it's said that at his peak, he was the highest-paid black-and-white artist in America.
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