NEW COMICS #4 * Taschen Copy * 8 Copies on Census

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Title: NEW COMICS No. 4
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Allied Newspaper Syndicate Inc.]
Date Published: March-April, 1936
Description: CGC certified: Poor (0.5). Grader's notes: "Missing interior part/page/wrap; multiple wraps completely split & detached; spine of cover completely split & cover detached; tape cover." Brittle pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest-graded sale is a 5.5 (Lost Valley pedigree) that sold for $965 in 2005. No sales in any grade since 2017.

Overstreet: "Sheldon Mayer art which continues in The Comics Magazine #1." CGC Census: 8 graded copies (4 Universal, 4 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Whitney Ellsworth. Scripts: Vin Sullivan, R.G. Leffingwell, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson?, Tom Cooper, Harold Sherman, Stan Randall, Russell Cole, Ellis Edwards, Art Pinajian, Leslie Ross, Emma McKean, Homer Fleming, A.D. Kiefer, Serena Summerfield, Leo O'Mealia, Rafael Astarita, Al Stahl, J.C. Leonard, Dick Ryan, Carson McCullers, Sheldon Mayer, Harry Lewis, Sven Elven, Jerry Siegel. Art: Vin Sullivan, R.G. Leffingwell, Alex Blum, Tom Cooper, Harold Sherman, Merna Gamble, Stan Randall, Russell Cole, Ellis Edwards, Art Pinajian, Leslie Ross, Emma McKean, Homer Fleming, Henry Kiefer, Serena Summerfield, Leo O'Mealia, Rafael Astarita, Al Stahl, J.C. Leonard, Dick Ryan, Sheldon Mayer, Harry Lewis, Sven Elven, Joe Shuster.Tapped by Taschen: The DC Universe Collection copy of New Comics #4 is illustrated in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (pages 30-31), with two examples of Serene Summerfield's "Stratosphere Special," captioned: "No one today remembers Serene Summerfield, but there must have been a certain lack of serenity among those discovering his — her? — vision of the future, antiquated even by 1930s standards: It owed much more to Jules Verne than Thrilling Wonder Stories."****************************************
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