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Great find!! Congrats!! That's one of those pedigrees I am probably never going to own. PDG

Absolutely stunning find! Congrats!! I would love to find any books like that, in almost any condition. The best I have come across is maybe 10-15 beat up issues of the Lone Ranger, Hi-Yo Silver, and Tarzan. At least they were CHEAP though!! PDG

Fantastic books!! Thank you! PDG

Those are an absolute win!! Excellent find of some beautiful books whether they are pedigree or not!! Thanks for sharing those! PDG

Ok, so a couple of my recent acquisitions. PDG

Beautiful books!! I don't have anything to contribute toward the history, but would love to know more about these myself. Can you post the full photos? PDG

I would absolutely jump at that opportunity!! Of course, ideally I would love to have the provenance so that I could submit it and get it back documented if at all possible. I just love the history of them all. Any of these books I ever acquire will go into my PC and will eventually pass on to my kids one day. PDG

Does anyone know what city or state where this collection was found? I don't think I have read that information anywhere as of the moment. PDG

So far I have only seen one that is currently listed on eBay. He had it at $1000 or best offer, but that's down to $800, which is still more than I can do right now, but I have hopes that it might drop some more. That particular book is from 1943, which is a bit later than most of the Larsons seem to be - as I have read, although I know there could be outliers. If you have other leads, please send them my way!! PDG edit: Other ones I am keeping my eyes on are Don Rosa, Twin Cities, Suscha News, although those are all SA or later. I know that the Okajima's are likely to be well beyond what I can swing as well.

Well, as I have stated in other threads - my target is to have one book from each pedigree. I don't care if it's the worst condition copy on the census. Thus far, this 5.5 may be the lowest grade of the pedigree books I own currently. I am probably around 25 pedigree books, plus my file copies which may or may not be considered pedigree books. I have a few duplicates within a pedigree (a couple of Circle 8's and a couple of Winnipegs). But I don't buy them to be cool, I buy them because that's my collecting target. I do have three or four which I need to send off for grading sometime soon. Anyone got any other cheap pedigree books?? PDG

My Crowley book to add to this thread. PDG

Thank you! I wrote a little more about it in the Lost Valley Pedigree thread and @LouFine gave me a bit of the backstory on it. I was very fortunate with that win. It is going in the collection next to my Church Book and along with my Crippen "D" and others. I think I am up to about 22-25 different pedigrees in my collection. The goal is to have one from each, but I know it is very unlikely I will ever have a Larson or Allentown book to name a few. Some of those are simply WAY out of my class. I haven't seen any of the Chinatown books out yet, but I have hope. I also have a book from Bethlehem, Promise, and maybe a few other GA collections. I just can't remember off the top of my head. But yeah, I had to take a shot at getting that Lost Valley book and I got it, so pretty stoked about that! PDG

My latest addition - Tip Top 62 - Lost Valley copy - total of 3 on the census. PDG

Thank you for the information! This is great! Actually, I bought it graded. No idea if was pressed or not, but I didn't pay much more than that original $70 for it. I figure the grading costs alone were worth what I bought it for. I like looking for and finding deals on pedigree books - so I kind of feel like this was a steal! PDG

Just got this in yesterday. Does anyone have the original listing in that catalog?? I would love to see that just as a point of reference. PDG

Does anyone here have much on the back story of this pedigree? I just picked up a Tip Top Comics to add to my collection. I know what CGC has posted, but I would like to know more about the history. Anyone got anything? PDG

I haven't posted in a while, but I just picked up a "Lost Valley" Tip Top Comics 62 - another Ebay find. I will try to post pics once I get it in. PDG

Back in the early 90s I walked into a comic store in New Orleans. They had tons of fantastic books. On their shelf, behind glass was a beautiful copy of Adventure 40. It was the most expensive book I had ever seen, far beyond what I would ever think of paying. I don't know whatever happened to that copy, but it was stunning and I think the asking price was around $40k back then. It was probably 93-94 or so. Still, to date, the only copy I have ever seen. PDG

This is fantastic!! Thank you! I didn't know this existed. Going to start my search for one now! PDG

Heard that story a few times. I am actually, in my limited spare time, assembling a bit of knowledge about these with the hopes of making a YouTube video series about them. I want to use my personal collection as references and tell the story. There just isn't much out there. I don't claim to be an expert on ANY of it at this point - but I am a pretty good researcher. I think that SFCityDuck is MUCH, MUCH better than I am at researching these things - the work he has done on the Promise Collection is simply fantastic! So, that is a long-term project I have on the horizon. I would absolutely LOVE to get my hands on a Cookeville book of any description. PDG

Love to see threads about the different Pedigrees. PDG

Agreed on the Bethlehem. I am not familiar with the Trolley books, but still consider myself a newb when it comes to the board and to the pedigree books. And, as already stated, the code has largely been cracked at this point. I just wish I knew what code was on the inside of my Crippen book. PDG

This is probably one of those pedigrees that will forever remain out of my reach unfortunately. PDG

I have read a fair amount of this thread off and on over a few months, so please forgive me if I missed it or don't remember. But the key element I don't recall being discussed is, "What is ANY given book worth to you?" Maybe it has an Overstreet price of $100, but is worth $120 to me - so I buy it!! Or maybe it is worth $80 to me - so I don't buy it. The IRS rules, as I understand them from my tax class are that assets, such as comic books, are such that are sold are subject to a 25% tax rate on the gains. The only time this is "reset" is when the book is passed on through an inheritance. So, the book has to increase by at least 25% just to offset the IRS taxes on the sale before the seller can make anything anyway. PDG

As soon as I heard the news I jumped on Ebay and managed to score a number of signed books really before the news "HIT" and the prices skyrocketed. A few arrived yesterday and I expect another one today. When I opened the package and saw his signature I felt my eyes welling up. I had to simply put them down and I will look at them more later. Neal and I had emailed a few times over the last few years. It's been more than a year since we messaged. He didn't know me well, so I won't claim that, but he did write me back - every single time. I met him at Raleigh Supercon in 2017. I posted this on another forum, but this is that story. I was fortunate enough to meet Neal Adams once. I grew up knowing his art long before I knew his name. When I started collecting as a teenager in the 1980s I saw some of his books on the shelf behind the cash register. They were there because simply, "They are Neal Adams."I went on and bought books he had worked on as I could afford them. As I entered into being an adult I left comics, but then around 2014 or so I started collecting again. In 2017 I happened to see that Neal was coming to a con close to where I was living - Raleigh, NC. I decided I was going to go - simply to see him and have him sign a few of my books. I didn't care about much else - only getting his signature. I decided my son, who was six, was going with me. As soon as the doors opened we flew down and were the first ones standing at his booth. I introduced myself and shook his hand. We talked and I had him sign about six of my books. I also bought a few of his prints, which he also signed for me.As we were there, my son had brought a Transformers Megatron toy. It was a dark gray jet and had a button that if you pressed it, the robot head popped out. My son didn't care about Neal, although he certainly knew the name by this point in his life. Neal asked if he could see the toy. My son hesitantly passed his Transformer over to him, looking up at me as if to ask if it was ok to hand it to this strange man. I nodded, telling him that this man wasn't going to steal his toy. Well, Neal became fascinated with it. Neal would push the face down, then push the button so that it would pop up again, and then laugh at it - almost as if he were fascinated by the engineering of it.Well, we would meander the auction floor, and then my son would ask to go back to see Neal again. We worked our way back and then Neal would ask for the toy again. This process repeated itself about every 30-45 minutes all day long. We were there from the time the doors were open until the doors were closed. It reached the point where my son would reach up and just hand the toy to Neal and watch with elation as Neal made the head pop up again and again.I ended up with six signed books, which all went off for grading from that day - all were low-grade well-loved copies. It was my first submission for grading ever as I want those books to pass on to my son - one day.Since that time I emailed Neal on a semi-regular basis, although it has been quite a while as I write this. I had wanted him to do a sketch of some sort for me but never made that happen. But, after we returned home from our encounter with Neal we went to a local store and found an identical Megatron Toy, boxed it up, and sent it off to Neal as a gesture of thanks, and for his entertainment. Of course, I sent it signature required for delivery and I still have my USPS Delivery Receipt with Neal Adams signature with it. PDG