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    Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) #40 CGC 4.5
    Published Jun 1940 by DC.

    Detective Comics (1937 1st Series) 40 CGC 4.5 Restored SS

    1st app. and origin Clayface
    1st Joker cover

    Extensive professional restoration

    Paper: Cream to off white

    Signed by Jerry Robinson on 02/07/2009. Restoration includes: color touch, pieces added, tear seals, cleaned. (Married Centerfold).

    Label #0971272001

    Ended Feb 24 2016
    Winning Bid $2,225

    Origin and 1st appearance of Clayface in the Batman story, plus the Spy, Red Logan, the Crimson Avenger, Speed Saunders Ace Investigator (art by Fred Guardineer), Steve Malone, Cliff Crosby, and Slam Bradley (script by Jerry Siegel, art by Howard Sherman). One-page text story, "Theft at the Fair" by Gardner F. Fox. Full-page ad for Batman # 1. Half-page ad for the Superman radio show. Cover price $0.10. Grade: CGC 4.5 explanation of grade Condition: Used (collectible)