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Title: FEDERAL MEN COMICS No. 2 [First Issue]
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Publisher:Gerard Publishing Co.
Date Published: 1945
Description: CGC certified: F/VF (7.0). Grader's notes: "Spine stress lines breaks color; light creasing to cover; very light wear to cover." Off-white pages.

GPAnalysis: A 7.0 sold for $220 in 10/22.

Overstreet: "DC reprints from the 1930s. Siegel/Shuster art; cover redrawn from Detective #9." CGC Census: 19 graded copies (18 Universal, 1 Restored). Gerber's Photo-Journal Guide Scarcity Index: 8 ("Rare: 11-20 copies").

Credits: Cover: Uncredited. Scripts: Jerry Siegel. Art: Joe Shuster, uncredited others.Feds and Retreads: Another Golden Age mag calculated to look like a DC on the newsstands, much like Atomic Comics #1. Were Green Publishing (who released Atomic Comics) and Gerard Publishing Co. (who published this mag) in cahoots under the same corporate ownership? Who knows — Golden Age publishers were ultra-adept at the shell game of concealing ownership with myriad sub-imprints and holding companies. Anyway, Joe Shuster's cover is a re-draw of Creig Flessel's cover to Detective Comics #9 (November, 1937).****************************************
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