NEW COMICS #6 * Steamy SHE" Serial * Foundations of Fantasy"

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Title: NEW COMICS No. 6
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Allied Newspaper Syndicate Inc.]
Date Published: July, 1936
Description: CGC certified: Apparent Good+ (2.5): Restored. Grader's notes: "Copy from bound volume; tape cover; tape interior cover; 5 staple(s) added after manufacturing; TOP & RIGHT EDGE TRIMMED; moderate tears to cover." Off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A Restored 4.5 (C-1) sold for $1000 in 2018. For comparison purposes, an unrestored 3.0 sold for $2160 in 2/22.

Overstreet: "'She' adaptation begins." CGC Census: 18 graded copies (12 Universal, 6 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 8 ("Rare: 11-20 copies").

Credits: Cover: Whitney Ellsworth. Scripts: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Homer Fleming, Bill Patrick, Tom Cooper, Russell Cole, Dick Ryan, Al Stahl, Leo O'Mealia, Richard Matheson, Henry Kiefer?, Vin Sullivan, Creig Flessel, Leslie Ross, Harold Sherman, Clem Gretter, Merna Gamble, Jerry Siegel. Art: Homer Fleming, Bill Patrick, Tom Cooper, Russell Cole, Sven Elven, Dick Ryan, Al Stahl, Leo O'Mealia, Richard Matheson, Henry Kiefer, Vin Sullivan, Creig Flessel, Leslie Ross, Harold Sherman, Clem Gretter, Alex Blum, Rafael Astarita, Merna Gamble, Tom Hickey, Joe Shuster.Foundations of Fantasy: A kid fisherman's catch-of-the-day gets skeletonized by his innocent-acting feline on Whit Ellsworth's cover. This ish features a spicy H. Rider Haggard adaptation, and in another strip, a randy explorer conducts a "biological study" of partially-clad native girls with steamy results ("Whoopie! Whee!").

"The novel She, written in 1886 by H. Rider Haggard, is serialized in New Comics #6 (July 1936) through New Adventure Comics #22 (December 1937). It is an interesting choice in that She is considered to be one of the foundations of fantasy literature. Although the Victorian colonialism and attitudes towards race and women are unacceptable to our modern sensibilities, the other aspects of the novel such as a lost world, a created history, and the untouchable ageless priestess are very much a part of modern comics whose heroes are supernatural." — Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson, DC Comics Before Superman: Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's Pulp Comics. Hermes Press: 2018, pp. 203, 205.****************************************
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