Pedigree Comics' High Grade Bronze Marvel Panhandle Collection Auction Underway, Ends on Wednesday Night, January 12th Beginning at 8:15 PM EST! 0

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Happy New Year to Everybody! Pedigree Comics' CEO and President, Doug Schmell, recently purchased a fabulous collection of almost 2,000 ultra high grade CGC certified Bronze Age Marvels and the first part of the collection (almost 400 books) is debuting in our live January Grand Auction. The auction began on the night of Sunday, January 2nd and lasts for ten (10) days until the night of Wednesday, January 12th as a separate event on the Pedigree Comics website (www.PedigreeComics.com). The first lot (Adventures on the Planet of the Apes #1 9.2) ends at 8:15 PM and the last lot (X-Men Annual #14 9.8) ends at 11:30. There is no Buyers Premium on any of the lots in the auction and EVERY book has no reserve. Every book is CGC graded and the minimum bid is only $20 for this auction. You can view all the high grade comics in the Auction Listing right now (just under 400 lots). Just go to the Pedigree Comics website and click on the Auction banner.

The Panhandle Collection is a brand new ultra high grade (almost all 9.4 and higher) CGC graded collection of mostly Bronze Age Marvels out of Fort Walton Beach, Florida (in the area known as the Florida Panhandle). The Collection is just unbelievable and features approximately 2,000 certified Bronze Age Marvels with some late Silver Age books included. The collection spans the years 1968 through the early 1980's and features almost every Marvel title imaginable. Almost every book is a CGC graded 9.4 or 9.6 with only a few in 9.2 and there are many 9.8's as well. There are a bunch of titles with nice runs (too many to mention here) and this first part of the collection features Amazing Adventures, Astonishing Tales, Avengers, Black Panther, Captain America (deepest run of the collection), Captain Savage, Conan the Barbarian and Daredevil.

The collector started buying comic books in 1968 at age 7, purchasing a bundle of books that were tied together with string (10 used books at a time for 25 cents) and this started his love for the Marvel Universe. When his father, who was in the Armed Forces, was ordered back to the United States in 1972, they both started weekly pilgrimages (every Saturday) to a local book store called Book Harbor, where the collector would pick up every Marvel title he could get his hands on, carefully reading every book. He would then preserve each one in a polypropylene bag and backing board, standing vertically on the shelves of the many different bookcases in his house.

He continued buying Marvels while in college from 1980 through 1984 but his collection really took off in 1985 after getting his degree in education and a steady paycheck as he was now able to afford all the back issues of titles he had always dreamed of getting. When CGC started operations in 2000, he began sending all his books in for certification. Almost every book came back a Near-Mint (9.4) or higher, with off-white to white page quality, a testament to the method in which he stored his prized comic books. He also started buying books from local dealers, mostly from Pedigree Comics, and he and Mr. Schmell became friends.

He decided to sell the collection in June of this year and contacted Mr.Schmell. After some back and forth negotiations, a purchase price of $200,000 was agreed upon. The entire collection will be sold in separate Grand Auctions throughout 2022, each showcasing around 300 to 400 books. The collection will be listed alphabetically, with the superhero titles first, and will end with the monster/horror/fantasy titles (one of the best and highest graded parts of the collection) which he loved so much.

If you have any questions or comments about the consignment process, any of the auction lots or about the Panhandle Collection in general, please contact Mr. Schmell at (561) 422-1120 (office) or (561) 596-9111 (cell) or at DougSchmell@pedigreecomics.com. For any financial related and consignment payment questions, please contact our CFO, Lisa Shapiro, at LisaJoy@pedigreecomics.com and for any technical related questions or concerns, please contact our Web Master at WebDesigner@pedigreecomics.com.