NEW FUN COMICS #2 * Very Rare * Gerber Scarcity Scale: 9

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Title: NEW FUN COMICS No. 2
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Allied Publications Inc.]
Date Published: March, 1935
Description: Fair (1.0). Extensive amateur restoration. Covers trimmed, edges reinforced with hand-colored non-archival paper fills, extensive color touches, some touch-ups to cover lettering in black ink (most notably to the "March, 1935" date), spine and all edges of covers completely reinforced with tape, almost half of the pages are split at the spine and detached, with the remaining pages still precariously joined at the spine. 36pp. including covers, COMPLETE. Pages brittle and chipping. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

Overstreet: "Very rare." Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 9 ("Very rare: 6-10 copies"). CGC Census: None (CGC does not offer grading for tabloid-sized comics). Sales Data: Heritage has sold two copies: a Restored "Apparent FN" for $1434 in 2007, and a "Fair" for $4800 in 2021.

Credits: Cover: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson and Lyman Anderson. Scripts: Charles Flanders, Joe Archibald, Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Adolphe Barreaux, Lander, Henry Kiefer, Walter Scott, Bert Salg, Ken Fitch, Jack Warren, Lyman Anderson, John Lindermayer, William Steinke, Robert Weinstein, Tom Cooper, Whitney Ellsworth, Tom McNamara, Dick Loederer. Art: Charles Flanders, Joe Archibald, Adolph Schus, Lawrence Lariar, Adolphe Barreaux, Lander, Henry Kiefer, Bert Salg, Clem Gretter, Jack Warren, Lyman Anderson, John Lindermayer, Robert Weinstein, Ken Fitch, Tom Cooper, Whitney Ellsworth, Tom McNamara, Dick Loederer.Tapped by Taschen: The DC Universe Collection copy of New Fun Comics #2 is illustrated in Taschen's 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking (page 23), with the following commentary: "Two decades before letter columns, readers had their say. The winner of the popularity poll in New Fun No. 1 was published in this issue, and 'Don Drake' replaced 'Jack Woods' on the cover of New Fun No. 3."

"Working with Wheeler-Nicholson on those early issues of New Fun were seminal figures in the birth of American comics and DC specifically. The man listed as editor of the first four issues was Lloyd Jacquet. Jacquet went on to found one of the earliest 'shops' that packaged original comics, Funnies Inc., including Marvel Comics #1 for Martin Goodman's new venture when Goodman added comics to his pulp publishing in 1939, thus making Jacquet essentially the founding editor of both DC and Marvel." — Paul Levitz, 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Taschen: 2010, p. 10.****************************************
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