World's Finest Comics #29 The Promise Collection Pedigree (DC, 1947) CGC NM 9.4 Off-white pages....
Auction amount: $4,320.00
Sold: Apr 10, 2022
World's Finest Comics #29 Values
Publisher: DC, 1947
About World's Finest Comics #29
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COVER DETAILS
Pencils: Jack Burnley
Inks: Charles Paris
Notes: Penciler credit verified by Burnley. Inker credit by Craig Delich.
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Barney Vellum
Synopsis: A rather strange bookbinder binds books in exteriors that illustrate the contents of the book, and Superman learns that three members of this man's club demand their books be bound in strange and unusual bindings. The Man of Tomorrow agrees to help out, since the money to be paid for the bindings will go to his choice of charities. Little does he know that Lois has a book she wants bound too: in the Man of Steel's own cloak!
Pages: 12.000
Script: Alvin Schwartz [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)
Pencils: John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks: Stan Kaye [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Letters: Ira Schnapp
Notes: Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn. Inker credit by Craig Delich. Letters credit from Todd Klein via his Klein Letters blog (19 September 2016, http://kleinletters.com/Blog/ira-schnapp-in-worlds-finest-comics-part-2/).
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 |
Universal |
1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 |
Qualified |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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 |
Restored |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Total | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 |
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