Just A Fanboy

A Pedigree? Sure, For A Price....

From a Scoop article written July 14, 2006 about a new "pedigree" coming to market:

"When I went out to see the collection, it blew away all of my expectations. After working at CGC and grading almost a million books, and owning some of the best books in the world prior to CGC, I have never seen some of these issues in any grade, let alone in these high grades. The page quality of these books rivals, if not blows away the quality of the Mile Highs and San Francisco's, said Steve Borock President and Primary Grader of CGC.

From the same article:

Nearly every comic from the pedigree is being certified by CGC.

From the CGC Fall 2000 Newsletter.....

It is amazing to think that pedigree collections of 1940's to 1960's material are out there even now.
For a collection to be considered a pedigree, it must first meet certain requirements:
1. It must all come from one original owner who bought them off the newsstand.
2. They must be of superior quality.
3. The collection should have a large accumulation of books (i.e. Mile High, Pacific Coast) or a smaller accumulation of very important books (i.e. Denver, Allentown).
4. Another important factor is existing market acceptance of a collection as a pedigree.

Here are some facts:

-There are 397 books in this collection.

-Not even 5% of the books are "keys" by any standards.

-The collection fails to meet two of CGC's four "requirements" to be a pedigree.

I wonder what CGC made on the grading fees for these 380 Golden Age books.......

And here is Steve Borock's take on the issue:

"These are the basic rules (set 6-7 years ago) and we judge every collection on it's own merits before designating it a pedigree.

As to the newest pedigree collection, the Central Valley collection: Many of these comics, in my opinion, will never be surpassed as the highest graded copy.

If anyone here finds an OO collection of about 400 different books from 1938 to the early 50's of very tough books to find in high grade (which many are), let alone unbelievable page quality, we would be more than happy to pedigree it. "

posted by @ 4:06 PM