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Famous Funnies: Carnival of Comics #nn (Eastern Color, 1933) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. You are looking at the se...
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Famous Funnies: Carnival of Comics #nn (Eastern Color, 1933) CGC VF+ 8.5 Cream to off-white pages. You are looking at the second comic book ever published! This promotional giveaway, a collection of newspaper reprints, was the brainchild of the father of the modern comic book format, M. C. Gaines. An experiment using this freebie turned out to be one of the key moments in the history of comic books: Gaines put price stickers (10ยข) on a few copies and arranged to have some newsstands try to sell them. They sold out, providing early proof that demand for the format existed. Of course, the content of the comic was quite desirable, as some of the best-known funnies of the day, including Joe Palooka, Mutt and Jeff, and Dixie Dugan, are inside. Gerber's The Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books lists the comic as "rare. " As for this copy, the condition is amazing considering the book's age -- even a Golden Age book in VF+ is a nice find, and this is from the Platinum Age, five years before Action Comics #1 and many years before preserving comics in top condition crossed anyone's mind. There are currently only two unrestored copies of this issue that have been graded higher by CGC. The CGC holder for this comic has a crack at the top right corner. Overstreet 2004 VF 8.0 value = $5,480; VF/NM 9.0 value = $8,740.View the certification for CGC Certification ID 0056426011, including grader's notes if available and a link to the latest full census report for the issue.*
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Auction Info
2004 July Comic Auction #751 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
July, 2004
29th
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