NEW ADVENTURE COMICS #38 * Great Flanagan Cover

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Title: ADVENTURE COMICS No. 38
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: May, 1939
Description: CGC certified: VG (4.0): Restored (C-1). Grader's notes: "Readers crease front cover; tear right bottom of front cover; small amount of glue on interior spine; spine split sealed spine C-1; tear seals left center front cover C-1." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest-graded Restored/Conserved sale is a 6.5 (C) that sold for $1325 in 10/19. For comparison purposes, an unrestored 3.0 sold for $400 in 2009, and an unrestored 4.5 sold for $5520 in 1/24.

CGC Census: 13 graded copies (7 Universal, 1 Qualified, 5 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 6 ("Uncommon: 50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: J.R. Flanagan. Scripts: Terry Gilkison, Ed Winiarski, Charles Biro, George Newman, Jerry Siegel, Jim Chambers, Fred Schwab, Gardner Fox, Bob Kane, Tom Hickey, Fred Guardineer, George Papp. Art: Terry Gilkison, Ed Winiarski, Charles Biro, George Newman, Siegel and Shuster Studio, Jim Chambers, Fred Schwab, Don Lynch, Bob Kane, Tom Hickey, Fred Guardineer, George Papp. Flanagan Does It Again: Another sensational Flanagan cover. Flanagan wasn't long for the comics biz, drawing just six original covers for DC (two of which were recycled on ashcans) before returning to the more lucrative world of commercial art. A few years after Flanagan left the comics field, Jerry Siegel tried to lure him back, offering him a chance to draw the new Superman newspaper strip. Flanagan turned the offer down flat — why toil in the comics biz when other avenues paid so much more?

"About ten or fifteen years ago, I got a letter from a fellow named Jerry Siegel. He said he had an idea for a comic strip which he would entitle Superman. He wanted me to do the art for the strip, I thought he was crazy, and I still do — a million dollars' worth." — "Famed Artist Turned Down Offer To Draw Superman." Sunday News (Pennsylvania). March 1, 1953.****************************************
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