Named for the location of the anonymous original owner (Rockford, Illinois) the Rockford pedigree ranks among the most cherished by collectors. According to the origin story, all the…
Like the Fred Schwab pedigree the Cape Cod pedigree is not a CGC recognized pedigree. That might be because it contained under 1,000 copies or that it lacked…
Kids love reading comics. And that was probably never truer than in the era before television (just half of U.S. households had a T.V. by the mid 1950’s)….
Like Superman reigning upon his thrown as the king of the superheroes, the Mile High/Edgar Church pedigree levitates high above all other comic pedigrees. Exactly why would that…
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…
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…
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…