NEW COMICS #3 * Sheldon Mayer Does WEED""

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Title: NEW COMICS No. 3
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Allied Newspaper Syndicate Inc.]
Date Published: February, 1936
Description: CGC certified: G/VG (3.0): Restored (C-1). Grader's notes: "Chews right bottom of cover; tape cover; tape interior cover; interior spine reinforced; small amount of color touch on left top & top front cover." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A Restored 3.5 (SA) sold for $405 in 2003. For comparison purposes, an unrestored 2.0 sold for $1050 in 8/20.

Overstreet: "Sheldon Mayer art which continues in The Comics Magazine #1." CGC Census: 10 graded copies (4 Universal, 1 Qualified, 5 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 8 ("Rare: 11-20").

Credits: Cover: Vin Sullivan. Scripts: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Bill Allison, R.G. Leffingwell, Whitney Ellsworth, R. H. Livingstone, Clem Gretter, Sheldon Mayer, Matt Curzon, Ellis Edwards, Stan Randall, A.D. Kiefer, John Patterson, S.M. Iger, Vin Sullivan, Emma McKean, Al Stahl, Tom Cooper, Jerry Siegel. Art: Vin Sullivan, Bill Allison, R.G. Leffingwell, Whitney Ellsworth, R.H. Livingstone, Clem Gretter, Sheldon Mayer, Tom Cooper, Matt Curzon, Ellis Edwards, Rafael Astarita, Stan Randall, Henry Kiefer, John Patterson, S.M. Iger, Emma McKean, Al Stahl, Joe Shuster.Tapped by Taschen: The DC Universe Collection copy of New Comics #3 is illustrated in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (page 26), with the caption: "Paradoxically, [Sheldon] Mayer's relationship with DC began because Wheeler-Nicholson could not pay him. As an alternative to freelancing, Mayer began working for M.C. Gaines, who later hired Mayer as editor-in-chief of the All-American line. Neither Scribbly nor Sugar and Spike, the humor titles for which Mayer is best remembered, displayed the surrealism of the curiously named 'Mr. Weed' [in this ish], however."****************************************
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