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Title: MORE FUN COMICS No. 41
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Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics Inc.]
Date Published: March, 1939
Description: CGC certified: Poor (0.5): Restored (C-1). Grader's notes: "Glue/residue staining, full left of spine; wrong back cover; cover re-attached with glue; moderate stain right top of front cover." Cream to off-white pages. Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.

GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. Lowest-graded Restored sale is a 6.0 (SA) that sold for $400 in 2016. For comparison purposes, the lowest-graded unrestored sale is a 2.0 that sold for $310 in 2012.

Overstreet: "Last Masked Ranger." CGC Census: 7 graded copies (4 Universal, 3 Restored). Gerber Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 6 ("Uncommon: 50-200 copies").

Credits: Cover: Creig Flessel. Scripts: Fred Schwab, Jim Chambers, Joe Donohoe, Jerry Siegel, Bob Jenney, Homer Fleming, Terry Gilkison, Bob Kane, Bill Ely, Stan Asch, Ken Browne, John Hampton, Bob Hersch, Tom Hickey, Bernard Baily. Art: Fred Schwab, Jim Chambers, Joe Donohoe, Joe Shuster, Bob Jenney, Homer Fleming, Terry Gilkison, Bob Kane, Bill Ely, Stan Asch, Ken Browne, John Hampton, Rusty Lehman, Tom Hickey, Bernard Baily.Would-Be MAD-Man: Besides his dream of being an ad-man, cover artist Creig Flessel would decades later dream of being a MAD-man. As he told the Comics Journal, "I would have liked to work at Mad, but I never got over there. I was happiest doing a poor man's Norman Rockwell as opposed to some people like Stan Drake, all these starker men who did more of a realistic thing. The stuff I did, I realized that I was happiest doing a semi-comic, more exaggerated type of thing."****************************************
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