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Title: DETECTIVE COMICS No. 74
Publisher:DC [Indicia: Detective Comics, Inc.]
Date Published: April, 1943
Description: CGC certified: VG- (3.5). Purple label: Restored (C-2). Off-white pages. Grader notes: "Married 1st wrap; married centerfold; reattached with tape centerfold; spine split centerfold; tape cover; tape interior; tape interior cover; light spine stress lines to cover; moderate creasing to cover; pieces added right bottom front cover C-2; pieces added top & bottom spine C-2; small amount of color touch on right bottom front cover; small amount of color touch on top & bottom spine; small amount of glue on center interior spine." Provenance: The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION.
 
CGC Census: 64 graded copies (55 Universal, 1 Qualified, 2 Signature Series, 6 Restored). 
 
GPAnalysis: No reported sales in this grade. A restored 2.5 (SA) sold for $312 in 6/21.
 
For comparison purposes, here are recent Universal sales: A 3.5 sold for $500 in 7/15; a  sold 2.5 for $408 in 6/22.
 
Credits: Cover: Jerry Robinson. Scripts: Don Cameron, Joe Simon/Jack Kirby?, Jack Lehti, Joe Samachson. Art: Bob Kane and Jerry Robinson (Jerry Robinson inks, Charles Paris inks to p. 7, George Roussos backgrounds), Jack Kirby/Joe Simon, Jack Lehti (Charles Paris inks), Chuck Winter, Lee Harris (Charles Paris inks), Howard Sherman. Overstreet: "1st Tweedledum & Tweedledee."Bat-cyclopedia: "In April 1943 Batman and Robin meet Tweedledum and Tweedledee.... a pair of rotund but ruthless criminals, cousins, who looks so much alike that they are frequently mistaken for identical twins. They are so fat, so lazy, and so eager to avoid exertion of any kind that they usually direct their criminal operations from a car or truck while their hired henchmen do the actual dirty work. Their real names are Deever and Dumfree Tweed, but they are best known to readers of the chronicles as Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The texts call them the Corpulent Duo and the Rotund Rascals, or refer to them simply as the Tweeds." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Encyclopedia of Comic Book Heroes Vol. 1: Batman. Macmillan: 1976, pp. 117, 358.The DC UNIVERSE COLLECTION comprises over 40,000 comic books, including a copy of every single DC comic published for retail sale from 1934 to 2014. The collection was amassed by British music producer Ian Levine over the course of several decades, and it's been hailed as the single greatest collecting accomplishment in comic book history. This collection served as the basis for former DC Comics president Paul Levitz's monumental book 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, published by Taschen in 2017. PBA is proud to present this epic collection in a series of themed sales over the next two years. To join the DC Universe Collection notifications list, contact pba@pbagalleries.com.
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