NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #37 * CGC 4.0 * Hungry Hippo from Hell

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Title: ADVENTURE COMICS No. 37
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: April, 1939
Description: CGC certified: VG (4.0). Grader's notes: "Tape cover; heavy staining to cover; moderate foxing to cover; moderate spine splits to cover." White pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A 5.0 sold for $3228 in 1/20.

Overstreet: "Cover used on Double Action #2." CGC Census: 25 graded copies (16 Universal, 9 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: J.R. Flanagan. Scripts: Ed Winiarski, Fred Schwab, Gardner Fox?, Jerry Siegel, Jim Chambers, Bill Ely, Russell Cole, Sheldon Moldoff, Tom Hickey, Bill Finger, Fred Guardineer. Art: Ed Winiarski, Fred Schwab, George Newman, Siegel and Shuster Studio, Jim Chambers, Bill Ely, Russell Cole, Sheldon Moldoff, Tom Hickey, Bob Kane, Fred Guardineer. Flanagan's Variations on a Theme: On last ish's cover, a hunter stopped a snake with steel-jacketed death; this time around, a hunter halts a hellish hippo with hot lead. Cover artist J.R. Flanagan delivered such a strong effort that somebody, probably editor Vin Sullivan, chose to grace DC's Double Action Comics #2 with a black and white version of this cover, inadvertently granting Adventure Comics #37 a certain reflected glamor in modern collecting circles. After all, it's not every mag that shares a cover image with the rarest newsstand DC comic book of them all.****************************************
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