Adventure Comics #42 Mile High pedigree (DC, 1939) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white to white pages. The original Golden Age Sandman, com...
Auction amount: $34,500.00
Sold: Aug 13, 2005
Adventure Comics #42 Values
Publisher: DC, 1939
About Adventure Comics #42
The second Sandman cover by Creig Flessel — an early grey tone cover. Bob Kane and Wayne Boring art. The Photo-Journal Guide to Comic Books lists this issue as a "7" ("scarce") on its Scarcity Index.Why sell your comic books with Heritage Auctions?
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Creig Flessel ?; Chad Grothkopf ?
Inks: Creig Flessel ?; Chad Grothkopf ?
Notes: Possible Grothkopf credit added by Craig Delich.
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Sandman [Wesley Dodds] (origin details); Teeter Sneed (villain, intro, Death); Dr. Clyde Dunlap (intro, forms "The Three Sandmen" with Wes Dodds); Happy O'Shea (intro, forms "The Three Sandmen" with Wes Dodds); Steve Weber
Synopsis: Wes joins up with two of his former service buddies to discover if Teeter Sneed has a hand in the killing of several of their old chums and threatening to do the same to several others.
Pages: 6.000
Script: Bert Christman ? [as Larry Dean] (signed)
Pencils: Bert Christman
Inks: Bert Christman
Notes: Sandman's origin mentions that he was in the service six years ago. Wesley Dodds does not appear as Sandman in this story. Christman script credit suggested by Bob Hughes; we previously credited Gardner Fox. Synopsis added by Craig Delich.
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
GoCollect Price Guide Report for this comic
CGC Census Report*
| Grade | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 9.6 | 9.8 | 9.9 | 10.0 | Total |
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Universal |
0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
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Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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Signature Series |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Restored |
0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Total | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 54 |
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