NEW COMICS #11 * 1st DC X-Mas Cover? * Traced Tracy

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Title: NEW COMICS No. 11
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Nicholson Publishing Co. Inc.]
Date Published: December, 1936
Description: CGC certified: Apparent Good+ (2.5): Restored. Grader's notes: "Copy from bound volume; 5 staple(s) added after manufacturing; TOP & RIGHT EDGE TRIMMED; heavy creasing to cover." Off-white to white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest Restored sale is a 7.0 (SA) that sold for $1035 in 2002. For comparison purposes, an unrestored 1.5 sold for $717 in 2012.

Overstreet: "Ties with More Fun #16 as DC's 1st Christmas cover." CGC Census: 15 graded copies (10 Universal, 5 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 8 ("Rare: 11-20 copies").

Credits: Cover: Whitney Ellsworth. Scripts: Homer Fleming, Ray McGill, Russell Cole, Alex Lovy, Bill Patrick, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Tom Cooper, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Bill Carney, Richard Matheson, Creig Flessel, Merna Gamble, Ellis Edwards, Rose MacKune, and Jerry Siegel. Art: Homer Fleming, Ray McGill, Russell Cole, Alex Lovy, Bill Patrick, Sven Elven, Munson Paddock, Tom Cooper, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Bill Carney, Richard Matheson, Tom Hickey, Alex Blum, Creig Flessel, Merna Gamble, Ellis Edwards, and Joe Shuster.1st Xmas Cover: This ish ties with More Fun #16, also cover-dated December 1936, for DC's first-ever Christmas cover. Plus: wacky ad coaxes kids to cockfight ("With little practice you can make these miniature Game Roosters... battle [in] a fierce cockfight, and thus afford endless amusement to you and your friends"); full-page ad pumps Detective Comics #1 ("Just What YOU Ordered! A High-Stepping Detective Magazine In Pictures!"); Siegel and Shuster's "Federal Men" features a wannabe Dick Tracy with yellow hat, yellow slicker, and razor-sharp jawline.****************************************
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