Big news makes me change my plans for this weeks journal.

I really don't know if I lied. Last week I said I was going to show you my favorite cover from a comic that I owned. I just can't do that as I won a lot in the last Heritage auction that I just have to tell about.

Besides collecting the series I have in my registry I also am putting together a set of all the different pedigrees that CGC lists. Now this is a very hard task to do for a man with a very limited budget. I'd like to thank my wife Evy at this time as she is the main donater to my budget, I'm out of work. When a nice pedigree comic comes up anywhere the skin on the back of my neck stands up and almost jumps off if it's for a series I collect. I always try to bid a little bit more for something like that. CGC now lists about 50 diff. pedigrees so this may be a collection that will take the rest of my life or maybe a bit longer. There are a few pedigrees that I've never seen come up for sale like Twilight, San Francisco, or a Hawkeye among others.

One I do see come up all the time is the Egar Church Mile High Pedigree. Now this is where the limited budget comes in. Seem like all of the books in this pedigree are so high on the grading scale, and the fact that everyone would like to own a Mile High, I've always been priced out of the market for them. That is until now.

In this weeks Sunday night Heritage auction they had a Headline Comics #60, a series I collect, up for bidding from the Mile High collection. It was a low to mid grade (CGC 7.0) copy with white pages that had sold in 2006 for under $70. There is no longer any hair on my neck. This comic was going to be mine. I watched this lot every day to see if I was going to be out priced for the book before the auction day even came. On Sunday, with about 10 hours to go, I came up with the amount I felt was the most I could bid. With an hour to go I started sitting in front of the laptop watching and updating the current bids to see if I still had a shot. I was still in it with 5 min. to go. I typed in my max bid of $105 and shut down the computer and went to bed. I guess I was thinking I didn't have a chance of winning the book due to the fact that every other Mile High I've bid on I've always have been out bid at the last second. By going to bed it gave me a whole night of thinking I may have one.

Waking up the next morning I ran to the desk, booted up the machine, and low and behold I had won it for $65. What was I thinking a $105. Hey, you know what, I would have been just as happy paying the $105. I now own a Edgar Church Mile High pedigreed comic. Now if I could only find a Allentown pedigree comic book, a Aurora pedigree, a Big Apple, a Central Vally ...