NEW COMICS #8 * Swipe Grip * Apple-Poaching Punk

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Title: NEW COMICS No. 8
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Allied Newspaper Syndicate Inc.]
Date Published: September, 1936
Description: CGC certified: Apparent VG- (3.5): Restored. Grader's notes: "Dried glue spine; 5 staple(s) added after manufacturing; ALL 3 EDGES TRIMMED; heavy fraying full left of spine; heavy, multiple crease full center of front cover." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported Restored sales. An unrestored 1.8 sold for $425 in 2013; an unrestored 4.5 sold for $750 in 4/20.

CGC Census: 15 graded copies (12 Universal, 3 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies").

Credits: Cover: Whitney Ellsworth. Scripts: Homer Fleming, Bill Patrick, Russell Cole, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Dick Ryan, Rafael Astarita, Babe Mather, Tom Cooper, Leo O'Mealia, Sven Elven, Henry Kiefer, Whitney Ellsworth, Vin Sullivan, Creig Flessel, Tom Hickey, Leslie Ross, Merna Gamble, Clem Gretter, Ellis Edwards, Jerry Siegel. Art: Homer Fleming, Bill Patrick, Russell Cole, Sven Elven, Dick Ryan, Rafael Astarita, Munson Paddock, Babe Mather, Tom Cooper, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Whitney Ellsworth, Vin Sullivan, Creig Flessel, Tom Hickey, Leslie Ross, Merna Gamble, Clem Gretter, Alex Blum, Ellis Edwards, Joe Shuster.Swipe Gripe: Whit Ellsworth's cover, featuring an apple-poaching rascal busted by a shotgun-toting farmer, may have inspired Vin Sullivan's similar cover to More Fun Comics #34 (August 1938). Swipes and rehashes were baked into the DNA of early comics, which, as novelist Michael Chabon pointed out, "suffered not from insufficient artwork.... but from a bad case of the carbon copies. Everything was a version, sometimes hardly altered at all, of a newspaper strip or a pulp-radio hero."****************************************
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