Set Description:
This is my SECONDARY SET and it includes DUPLICATE COPIES. It does include some amazing PEDIGREE copies in 9.6.
The following Pedigree are a part of this set:
1. MILE HIGH II PEDIGREE-ACTION COMICS # 535 CGC 9.6.
A. MILE HIGH PEDIGREE
Edgar Church was born in Plainville, Connecticut in 1888. He was a comics collector and artist who worked independently and eventually for the telephone company in Colorado illustrating commercial telephone book advertisements, precursors to Yellow Pages advertisements.
Church kept thousands of miscellaneous periodicals in his Colorado home to use as references for his art. From these magazines he would clip images which he would store in one of hundreds of labeled boxes. The collection of comic books that he amassed, later known as the "Edgar Church collection" or the "Mile High collection", is the most famous and valuable comic book collection known to surface in the history of comic book collecting. The collection consisted of between 18,000 and 22,000 comic books, most of them in high quality grades, and was discovered and bought in 1977 by Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics. About 99% of it was later sold by him to various collectors. The collection is famed for holding the highest quality copies of many Golden Age comic books, including the best known copy of Action Comics #1. (Believed to be a 9.4 to a 9.6, but the current owner refuses to get any of his books graded.). Edgar Church was married twice and had one child with each of his wives. Church died in 1978 at age 89.
B. MILE HIGH II PEDIGREE
The following is a description of this pedigree by Chuck Rosanski of Mile High Comics, Inc.
He narrated a long story about the best comics deal he ever made. Contrary to popular misconception that the Edgar Church collection was his best-ever comics find. In fact, at the time that he closed the deal, the collection that he later dubbed the "Mile High II Collection" had a retail value that was over ten times the original value of the Mile High/Edgar Church collection! Aside from the significant financial effect the discovery of this larger collection had on the future of Mile High Comics, the story of the purchase of this collection is historically quite interesting. However, he indicated that the story was not a pretty one.
The comics were great, but the environment in which he made the deal was a sordid mix of sex, drugs, and family betrayals. It ended up being the best comics deal that he ever made, but it took a trip through the sewers to get the job done per his description.
The Mile High II Pedigree was the most CONTROVERSIAL PEDIGREE in the Comics Collecting dimension. CGC initially recognized it as an official Pedigree and indicated it on the CGC labels. Then it was “De-Recognized” and lost its official Pedigree status.
However, the copy of Action Comics # 535 CGC 9.6 that is included in this set still OFFICIALLY maintains a PEDIGREE STATUS which makes it very SPECIAL and UNIQUE. This is the only book in my entire collection that is from the Mile High II Pedigree. It has been included in this set as I have a copy of Action Comics # 535 CGC 9.8-Rocky Mountain Pedigree in my PRIMARY SET.
2. ROCKY MOUNTAIN PEDIGREE-ACTION COMICS # 549 CGC 9.6
This book was 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.There has been overwhelming collector interest in these comic books, and this is one of the finest collection brought to the market.
The Rocky Mountain 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.
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