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Title: DETECTIVE COMICS No. 43
Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.]
Date Published: September, 1940
Description: CGC certified: F/VF (7.0). Cream to off-white pages. Grader notes: "Wear spine breaks color; light creasing to cover; small tear right center of front cover." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.
 
CGC Census: 92 graded copies (74 Universal, 3 Qualified, 15 Restored). 
 
GPAnalysis: A 7.0 sold for $2750 in 1/21. More recently, a 7.5 sold for $5201 in 7/23. 
 
Credits: Cover: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson inks). Scripts: Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Ray Cummings (credited as R. Everett Pace), Gardner Fox?, Chad Grothkopf. Art: Bob Kane (Jerry Robinson and George Roussos backgrounds), Ed Shore, Ed Winiarski, Jack Lehti, Fred Guardineer, Fred Ernst, Chad Grothkopf, Howard Sherman.Bat-cyclopedia: "In September 1940 Batman and Robin battle 'crafty politician' HARLISS GREER.... who succeeds to the mayoralty upon the sudden death of the elected mayor and, under the patronage of racketeer 'Bugs' Norton, ousts all honest public officials, forces the city's policemen into retirement and replaces them with hired hoodlums, and transforms the city into a 'racketeer's paradise' where gambling and the drug traffic function openly, without fear of official interference.....
 
"Batman calls a public meeting, 'skillfully... urges the people to battle against the racketeers who have enslaved them,' and then helps an aroused citizenry capture Harliss Greer, 'Bugs' Norton, and their cohorts and restore honest government to the city." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 115, 221.The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION comprises over 40,000 comic books, including a copy of every single DC comic published for retail sale from 1934 to 2014. The collection was amassed by British music producer Ian Levine over the course of several decades, and it's been hailed as the single greatest collecting accomplishment in comic book history. This collection served as the basis for former DC Comics president Paul Levitz's monumental book 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, published by Taschen in 2017. PBA is proud to present this epic collection in a series of themed sales over the next two years. To join the DC Universe Collection notifications list, contact pba@pbagalleries.com.
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