Set Description:
This set is special in its own sense as it has some beautiful Action Comics covers and includes many Pedigree Books. The following Pedigrees are included:
1. THE SAVANNAH PEDIGREE
This collection was amassed by a single collector who resided in the Savannah area. At the age of 95 the life-long comic book collector passed on, leaving behind an incredible collection of more than 40,000 comic books. He started collecting in the 1950s and continued until his recent death. A fan of all genres, he bought everything. Action Comics, Showcase, Brave and the Bold, Batman, G.I. Combat, Our Army at War, X-Men, Daredevil, Amazing Spider-Man, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Uncle Scrooge, Heart Throbs, Weird Western and literally everything else! Although, with a complete collection of DC, he was clearly a superhero fan.
The collector’s four children were not interested in keeping the collection and sought Shelton’s help in selling it. When he arrived at the collector’s home to inspect the books, Shelton found the comics from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s stored raw on shelves and in plastic storage bins, and the books from the 80s and later bagged and in cases. According to his family, at some point the collector developed a relationship with a local newsstand distributor and was able to pick up new books directly from the warehouse as they arrived. This resulted in a very consistent collection. All of the books were clean, with no stamps or markings.
2. THE WINNIPEG PEDIGREE
This collection spans the 1960s to Copper Age. A large portion was brought to market by Showcase New England during the late 1990s. Dan Greenhalgh uncovered Winnipeg pre-CGC and the original owner's name of Dennis Kjolso is written at the top of a bunch of the early issues. Known for having the owner's name written on the top of the cover of the pre-1965 issues, there are many high quality examples of this pedigree, and there have been rumblings that these may just be the under copies of the original owner's collection.
3. ROCKY MOUNTAIN PEDIGREE
Rocky Mountain collection was a part of an original owner collection. Rocky Mountain, so named because it is from Colorado, contains over 5,000 comic books in high-grade runs of Marvel and DC titles from the 1960’s and up.The comic books were stored meticulously for decades in a cool, dry basement, and have bold, newsstand-fresh colors and white or off-white to white pages. There are many Rocky Mountain examples that are the highest certified for their issue. One of the unique things about the Rocky Mountain pedigree is that there are photographs of it in its original state, making it one of the most thoroughly documented pedigrees. It has long runs of Marvel and DC, and because of their high grades and their market acceptance, this collection certainly has special merit.
4. THE DON ROSA COLLECTION
Accumulated by world renowned and Eisner award winning comic book artist, writer, and historian, KENO DON ROSA, these complete runs contain every comic book and comic magazine issued from every publisher from 1966 to the late 1980's. Rosa began collecting in earnest in 1962, and these books were carefully purchased individually off the stands as they appeared over the years.
This one-owner collection is unique in that most of these issues may have been read only once and then carefully tucked away in optimum storage conditions in archival boxes in a climate controlled "vault". In fact, the books were not placed in polybags where they would have been subject to oil transfer and staining after only a couple of years. This has accounted for the brilliant sheen, deep ink reflectivity, sharp corners and pristine look of virtually the entire group of comic books.
These comics represent only a small portion of the massive collection which includes full runs of most titles from every comics publisher dating back to 1945. Since the 1960's Don Rosa has been recognized as one of the first comics history scholars of fandom. He has written and illustrated Question & Answer columns for the major fanzines of the 70's including such notable publications as ROCKET'S BLAST COMIC COLLECTOR, CBG(TBG)COMICS JOURNAL, and AMAZING HEROES. During the 1980's this international award winning comics writer-artist has gained fame as one of the world's most famous and recognized cartoonists due to his work on the still best-selling European comics involving the Ducks of the legendary Carl Barks.
5.THE TONGIE FARM COLLECTION
This book is from an amazing original owner comic collection from LAWRENCE, KANSAS. Lawrence is about an hour outside of Kansas City and is the home of Kansas University. The original owner starting purchasing his comics from his local RAINEY'S DRUGSTORE in 1962 and read and cared for them at his family farm in Tonganoxie, Kansas. In 1975, he was interviewed in his local paper because of his amazing collection. He stopped buying comics in 1978 having accumulated over 7,000 comics over a 16 year period. The story behind the acquisition of this collection is interesting as well. Brent Moeshlin, the owner of Quality Comix, received an email from a gentleman in Kansas who had an Amazing Fantasy #15 CGC VF- 7.5 for sale. He had purchased the book off of ebay many years ago as an investment and wanted to cash in now. He had spoken with a number of comic dealers but all of them wanted him to ship them the comic before they would send the money. So Brent agreed to fly out to make the exchange in person. In the course of these conversations, Brent asked the gentleman if he had any more comics he was interested in selling. He replied that he had a very large collection that he had purchased from his local drug store between 1962 and 1978. The comics had been boxed up since 1999 and he wasn't sure what was in the collection but he remembered there being full runs of most of the main Marvel titles including Fantastic Four, Amazing Spider-man, X-Men, Daredevil and Hulk. The next week, Brent flew out to Lawrence, Kansas to pay for the Amazing Fantasy. After the deal was consummated, they drove over to the owner's house to look at his collection. What was found was just what the seller had described - full runs of most of the main Marvel titles and many DC titles from that era as well. The nicest part about the collection besides the completeness of the runs was the condition of the bronze age books. They were generally unread and glossy with white pages. Many of the early Marvels appeared to be in high grade as well. There were also multiple copies of the key issues from the late 1960s and early 1970s. After a short negotiation, a deal was made on the complete collection. Quality Comix brought the Tongie Farm collection to market.
6. THE OHIO PEDIGREE
Emerging from Akron, Ohio, this monster collection required two brokers and six years to bring out every issue. Dealer Nelson Dodds was ultimately responsible for introducing the Ohio collection to the comic market in 1994, but even he did not realize its size and quality until years later. Known for having great pages (ranking in the top 10) and easily identifiable distributor codes on the covers, Ohio books have been sought after by major pedigree collectors for over a decade. Though stocked with many high grade Silver Age issues, it's the Golden Age copies that made the Ohio collection famous.
7. THE MONTEREY COLLECTION
This exceptional comic collection was amassed by a private collector who lived just south of San Francisco on the California coast near beautiful Monterey. Even though his collection includes many Golden-Age and Atom-Age comic books, it is the late Silver-Age and early Bronze-Age comics that are in extremely high-grade. He began buying comics off the stands during the mid to late 1960s and was very selective when choosing which issues would be put into his personal collection. Thus, most books from this time period forward have near perfect structure quality with rich colors, full gloss and super-fresh white paper. These comics look brand new, just as they came from the publisher with many being the finest known copy.
8. THE MURPHY ANDERSON FILE COPY
This is the newest pedigree recognized by CGC in 2019, and amassed by industry giant Murphy Anderson, one of the pre-eminent artists and inkers of the Silver Age. In addition to a large collection of original art, Anderson saved copies of many of the DC comic books published during his tenure from the '50s through the '70s. After his passing in 2015 the entire collection was auctioned through Heritage in 2019, many CGC graded.
My favorite covers in this set is are Action Comics # 403, 415, 448, 465 and 466.
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