The Ohio pedigree gets its name in part because the actual original owner’s name is unknown. He or she chose to remain anonymous but resided in Ohio (comics…
Perhaps no comic pedigree represents the arch of the rise and fall of Golden Age of comics more than the Crowley Pedigree. Wendell B. Crowley was born in…
James Hilton is a legend of sorts in the world of comic collecting. After-all, he started collecting in the Golden Age of comics all the way back to…
One single raindrop on the ocean quickly becomes diffused within the overwhelming volume of saltwater upon which if falls. Such is the fate of countless comic book collections…
All comic collections could technically have a pedigree given the broadest definition of the word (aka a documented recording of direct linage). And surely every book that survives…
The roots of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) go back to the very first issue of Marvel Comics in October 1939. That issue introduced, among other characters, The…
Even before the United States began sending soldiers overseas to help reverse the global tsunami set in motion by the axis countries in World War II, the fledgling…
If you were to start collecting Golden Age comics from scratch today, it wouldn’t take long to run into “pedigree copies.” Thanks to original owners who collected comics…
Paul Terry goes all the way back to the Edison Studios silent film era. He got his animated shorts start in 1915 – 25 years prior to his biggest…
I’ve been on a bit of an anthropomorphic funny animal spree of late. They have a good vibe to them, perfectly represented by this circa April 1945 handwritten…