Ace Comics #11 Slabbed CGC 3.0 G/VG - RARE 1st Appearance of Phantom - Feb 1938

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You are bidding on David McKay Publishing's "Ace Comics" Issue #11. A true 'granny's attic' platinum age find. This issue is notable as it contains the first comic book appearance of The Phantom, wearing the "brown" costume. The CGC graded it in June 2018 at 3.0 (Good / Very Good), grader notes are as follows:
Cream to Off-White pages (crm/ow)Detached cover (pretty sure this was attached when I mailed it to CGC :/ It is original cover.)Split bottom of spineSplit left center of spine
Split top of spine
There are no missing pages. 
Unfortunately the photos I had of it prior to slabbing were lost. Current CGC census for this issue is 12 (two of these are qualified). 
From Wikipedia:
"Issue #11 (cover date February 1938) is notable as a key Golden Age comic, as it introduced to a wider audience one of the first costumed heroes ever to be featured in a comic book, Lee Falk's The Phantom — pre-dating Superman (Action Comics #1, cover date June 1938). The Phantom daily strip, written by Ray Moore and drawn by Wilson McCoy, then featured in Ace Comics for a 140-issue run, appearing in every issue until the title was cancelled."
From ComicConnect:"What Superman is to America, the Phantom is to the rest of the world. Probably the first costumed superhero, predating the Man of Steel's debut by nearly two years, the Phantom was wildly popular throughout much of the 20th Century, especially in Europe and Australia, with a staggering daily readership of over a hundred million worldwide at his peak. Lee Falk's compelling and unforgettable creation was hugely influential on both hero strips and adventure comics, directly or indirectly inspiring everything from Batman and Zorro to Tin Tin and Indiana Jones, and has a massive cult following to this day. This historic first appearance of the Phantom in comic books is thus extremely historic, and marks possibly the first superhero appearance in a newsstand comic. Extremely scarce, existing in numbers so low they rival the scarcity of Marvel 1, Action 1, and Captain America 1, collectors never fail to leap at the painfully rare opportunity to buy this remarkable and important treasure."
Contents, From MyComicShop:"Cover by Joe Musial. Edited by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Stories and art by Robert L. Ripley, Feg Murray, Clarence D. Russell, H. H. Knerr, Doc Winner, Jack Sords, Russ Westover, A. D. Carter, Lyman Young, Chic Young, Jack King, Joe Musial, Billy DeBeck, Lee Falk, Ray Moore, Jack Welch, Paul Robinson, Gene Ahern, George Herriman, Don Moore and Alex Raymond. Pioneering comics publisher David McKay presents an anthology series featuring reprints of King Features Syndicate comic strips. Includes Alex Raymond's Jungle Jim and George Herriman's beloved Krazy Kat. The Phantom replaces Tex Thorne as the lead dramatic feature (with his costume miscolored brown), as he battles the all-female air pirates known as the Sky Band. The Phantom; Ripley's Believe It Or Not; Jungle Jim; Seein' Stars; Pete the Tramp; Katzenjammer Kids; Elmer; Sports in Pictures; Tillie the Toiler; Dream Land; Nicodemus O'Malley & His Whale, Palsy-Walsy; Just Kids; Tim Tyler's Luck; Blondie; The Stamp Spotlight; Curley Harper at Lakespur; Teddy and Sitting Bull; Barney Google; Etta Kett; Krazy Kat; Room and Board; Doc Winner's Daffy Doodles. 64 pages, Full Color. Cover price $0.10."

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