NEW FUN COMICS #4

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Title: NEW FUN COMICS No. 4
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: National Allied Publications Inc.]
Date Published: May, 1935
Description: Fair (1.0). Moderate to extensive amateur restoration. Covers trimmed, spine and all edges of covers completely reinforced with tape, color touches to spine and bottom right corner of front cover, small color touch to right edge of front cover. First page loose and with tape repairs; pageblock detached from covers and with spine half-split but still integral; all 36 pages present. Tan pages, edges chipped and brittle. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 7 ("Scarce: 21-50 copies"). CGC Census: None (CGC does not offer grading for tabloid-sized comics). Sales Data: Heritage has only sold one copy, a Restored "Apparent VG-", for $3666 in 2022.

Credits: Cover: Jack Warren. Scripts: Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, Vin Sullivan, Monroe Eisenberg, Tom Cooper, Joe Archibald?, John Lindermayer, Walter Scott, Ken Fitch, Whitney Ellsworth, W. C. Brigham, Al Whitney, Dick Loederer, Tom McNamara, Henry Kiefer, Leighton Budd. Art: Monroe Eisenberg, Vin Sullivan, Tom Cooper, Joe Archibald?, John Lindermayer, Dick Loederer, Raymond Perry, Clem Gretter, Whitney Ellsworth, W. C. Brigham, Al Whitney, Tom McNamara, Leo O'Mealia, Henry Kiefer, Leighton Budd.Filled with Four-Color Femme Fatales: "Feisty females were a staple of the early National titles. Sandra, one name only, joined such other adventurers as 'Dale Darling' and 'Hope Hazard, G-Woman' in tales of a poor man's — or woman's — 'Jane Arden,' a popular newspaper strip of the day." — Paul Levitz, 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking. Taschen: 2010, p. 23.****************************************
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