It’s a shame this documentary was never made. This video shows a little of what might have been, but in the end it didn’t make the required amount on kickstarter. Even so, this 6:30 video clip delivers a nice synopsis of the collection. Enjoy and read more about the Edgar Church Mile High Pedigree Comic Book Collection here.
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Edgar Church Mile High Documentary – Never Made
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CGC Recognizes a New Pedigree – Haight-Ashbury
Thursday, February 28th, 2013 at
5:23 pm
CGC recently recognized a new pedigree comic book collection named the Haight-Ashbury Pedigree. You can read the full press release here.
The quick synopsis is:
Popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s, underground comix are small-press or self-published books that often contain socially relevant content. The collection features an overwhelming majority of first printings with minimal duplication.
These comics were collected by a single individual from San Francisco starting in 1970. After obtaining his first batch of underground comics, the owner started putting aside new books every week for the next five to six years, never reading them. Although he was not a comic collector, he collected other items and knew it was important to store them carefully. From 1976 to 1981 he added a few comics and associated publications to his collection, but nothing like the early years.
I’ll add some comments about this “pedigree” in the next weekly update.
Billy Wright Pedigree Collection Fetches $3.5 Million
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012 at
11:09 pm
A significant portion of the the Billy Wright Collection brought in $3.5 million in a Heritage auction.
Wright’s 345 comics, almost all of which were published from 1936 through 1941, included Detective Comics No. 27 and Action Comics No. 1, in which Superman’s first appears.
Wright’s collection included 44 of The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide’s top 100 issues from the Golden Age.
The copy of Detective Comics No. 27, from 1939, drew the highest bid Wednesday, selling for $523,000, including a buyer’s premium. Wright’s Action Comics No. 1, from 1938, sold for about $299,000; Batman No. 1 sold for about $275,000; and Captain America No. 2 sold for about $114,000.
“It was amazing seeing what they went for,” said Michael Rorrer, who discovered his late great uncle’s neatly stacked comics in a basement closet while cleaning out his great aunt’s Martinsville, Va., home after she died last year.
227 of the collection’s comic books sold on Wednesday for $3,466,264. The remaining comics will be sold online through Heritage Auctions this weekend.
The story of the comics is amazing, a find many collectors only dream about.
Rorrer, 31, said he didn’t realize how valuable the comics were until months after returning home to Oxnard, Calif., when he mentioned them to a co-worker who mused that it would be quite something if he had Action Comics No. 1.
“I went home and was looking through some of them, and there it was,” said Rorrer.
He reached out to his mother, Lisa Hernandez, who still had half the comics at her home in League City, Texas, that she intended to give to his brother in Houston. They then went through their boxes, checking comic after comic off the list.
Hernandez said it really hit her how valuable the comics were when she saw the look on Allen’s face when the auction house expert came to her house to look through the comics.
The find was a complete surprise for the family, and it is unclear if Ruby Wright was aware of the collection’s significance. Rorrer said he remembers her making only one fleeting reference to comics: Upon learning he and his brother liked comic books, she said she had some she would one day give them. He said his great uncle never mentioned his collection.
