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SOLD ON: Tuesday, 12/15/2020 7:58 PM
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PUBLISHER: DC
COMMENTS: white pgs; QES Certified: Criteria met: impressive prime focal area + deep color strike (blue, red, yellow)
Moldoff cvr/art; 1st JSA adventure & 2nd app.
Billy Wright copy
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white pgs; QES Certified: Criteria met: impressive prime focal area + deep color strike (blue, red, yellow)
Moldoff cvr/art; 1st JSA adventure & 2nd app.
Billy Wright copyWartime comics are one of the most popular genres for collectors, these gems of the Golden Age combine the early history of superheroes with the historic realities of a global conflagration, and the variety of colorful, patriotic covers that these books were wrapped in are worth the price of admission alone. One of the interesting subgenres in WWII books was the stateside wartime comic, where espionage and sneaky plots of sabotage were de rigueur, in hearkening back to the pulpy mystery plots of the pulps, these tales of Axis threats taking place in the good old U.S. of A. kept readers coming back for more. In All Star Comics #4, the newly minted JSA is called upon by none other than J. Edgar Hoover to stop a homespun Nazi bund plot that is unraveling across the Nation. “For America and Democracy” is a rollicking ride illustrated by six of DC’s finest artists, including Bernard Baily, E.E. Hibbard, Mart Nodell, and Shelly Moldoff. The story was intended to raise an alarm amongst the American populace to be on guard against the rise of Fascism at home, and to stand up for the tenets of Democracy that our great nation was built on, a lesson that still sadly requires retelling today.
This beautiful copy of All Star #4 hails from the Billy Wright pedigree, and it is quite a breathtaking example of a WWII-era comic. The JSA rushed into battle on this cover to defend America and Democracy, and it was just this sort of patriotic jingoism that helped the comic book industry explode during the heady days of the war, causing copies to fly off of shelves in droves. Not many books have survived the ensuing decades in such fantastic condition, blinding yellows burst forth from this cover as the rest of the hues also display pure perfection, from the blacks to the whites, everything about this QES-certified cover is clean, sturdy, and just plain impressive as all get out.
Overstreet Guide 2020 NM- (9.2) value = $11,500.
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