Adventure Comics 1-100, Census stats

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C:Church

L: Larson

D: "D"

R: Rockford

CR: Crowley

CA: Cosmic Aeroplane

SF: San Francisco

H: Hawkeye

NS: Nova Scotia

BA: Big Apple

 

1 VF/NM, 5/9

2 FAIR/G 1/1

3 -, 0/2

4 VF, 1/2

5 VF, 3/4

6 VF, 4/5

7 FN+, 2/2

8 VF, 1/2

9 VF-, 4/4

10 VG+, 1/1

11 FN, 3/5

12 FN/VF, 3/4

13 -, 0/0

14 FN/VF, 1/1 C70

15 -, 0/0

16 FN, 3/4

17 FN-, 1/2 L55

18 VF/NM, 1/2 C90

19 NM+, 5/6 C92 L60

20 NM+, 2/3 C96

21 NM, 2/3 C94 L40(SA)

22 VF, 1/1

23 -, 0/3

24 VF, 3/5 CA80(SA)

25 VG, 1/1

26 -, 0/0

27 -, 0/0

28 VF-, 1/1

29 NM+, 2/4 C96

30 NM+, 2/4 C96

31 NM+, 6/7 C96

32 G/VG, 1/4

33 NM-, 2/2 C92

34 NM, 3/3 C94

35 NM-, 1/1 C92

36 NM+, 1/1 C96

37 G/VG, 1/5

38 VF-, 1/3 C75

39 NM+, 1/1 C96

40 FN/VF, 5/10 C92(SA) CA40

41 NM+, 6/8 C96

42 NM, 6/8 C94

43 NM+, 4/5 C96

44 VF/NM, 4/6 L90

45 NM+, 4/6 L90 R65

46 G/VG, 2/3 C94

47 VG/FN, 3/4

48 VF+, 6/16 C85 L92(SA)

49 NM-, 4/5 L92

50 NM, 2/2 NS94 L85

51 NM, 6/7 NS94 C90

52 NM-, 6/8 NS85

53 VF, 4/6 L80

54 VF+, 3/5 L85

55 VF+, 5/5

56 NM-, 5/7

57 NM-, 2/5

58 NM-, 7/9 C90

59 VF-, 4/4

60 NM-, 9/10

61 VF+, 5/8 L85 C94(SP)

62 VF/NM, 7/7

63 VF, 3/4 L80 R85

64 VF+, 4/4

65 NM-, 5/5

66 VF-, 4/7

67 NM-, 5/7

68 VF/NM, 5/5

69 NM, 6/6 H90

70 NM+, 6/6 H85

71 VF, 4/4

72 NM+, 7/13 R85 C96

73 NM-, 7/9

74 NM, 6/6 R90

75 NM, 4/4 C94

76 NM+, 4/4 C96 R65

77 NM/M, 2/3 C98

78 NM-, 4/4

79 VF, 7/7 CR80 C94

80 NM+, 7/7 C96 (C94) R85

81 VF/NM, 4/4 SF80

82 VF+, 7/7 C85

83 NM, 6/7 R94

84 VF/NM, 4/4

85 NM-, 5/5 C92 R85

86 NM-, 6/6 R92

87 FN+, 2/2

88 NM, 6/7 R94 CR85

89 NM-, 6/7 C92

90 NM-, 4/4 C92 CR75

91 VF/NM, 2/3

92 NM+, 4/5 C96

93 NM, 5/5

94 NM+, 8/8

95 NM, 7/7 D92 R95

96 NM, 7/7 H90

97 NM/M, 9/9 C98

98 NM, 8/8 R90

99 NM-, 6/6

100 NM, 13/14 C92 R90 D92 BA85

 

[Bonds25]

Thanks for posting these - it's amazing how few comics of these have been submitted, especially considering their value.

[PedigreeMan]

Where did you get the pedigree info from? I haven't seen that stuff listed on the census ....

 

Al

[tb]

I cross referenced with all the info I could find from old auction catalogs,

the web, etc. etc. It's a work in progress but if there's interest I'll post

other runs as well (also did Marvel & Detective 1-100) along with updated

tables for the 3 other titles. If anyone can help fill holes in the pedigree

info, I'd appreciate your help.

 

My hope is that these lists will help answer questions like "what fraction

of the Church copies are the best exisiting?", "is Allentown or San

Francisco the more attractive of the two?", and "should I believe the seller

who is telling me that almost all Larsons are higher grade than Recil Macons?".

People have been making sweeping generalizations/statements about these

issues for decades - it would be nice to have some hard numbers to back

up/refute such claims. With the current state of the CGC census and the huge

amount of pedigrees offered in the last few years, I believe all the info is

finally available to cut through the bs and answer these questions.

 

[Arty]

I did some research in January about Church and Rockford pedigrees, based on data available from heritage archives.

 

Started it just out of curiosity, but managed to do a nice statistical diagram.

Info is outdated now, but I hope to do a "complete" pedigree database in future.

 

Here's a graph:

Mile High Vs. Rockford

 

 

[tb]

Thanks, Arty, that's very interesting - exactly the direction I would like

to go. I'll try to finish up my own little survey for those 5 titles... Am still

not sure what kind of data are most useful; this little exercise was meant

to help clarify that. One issue with your comparison is that the different

pedigrees contain issues from different periods? I am trying to get around

that by comparing issues only from the same titles/#s. All depends on what

questions you are asking, I guess... If you want to do more studies, I'd be

glad to help.

 

 

[Arty]

I think that when info is typed into a good database program, it's easy to do different comparisons between pedigrees: pedigree "quality" (like my little study) and comparisons between individual titles/issues (like your survey)?

 

Maybe Microsoft Access is sufficient program? I only used exel-type of program which was wery limited and updating my list is practically impossible.

 

If anyone can tell what kind of program I should use? Searchable database with graph output is what I'm looking for.

 

Edit: nearly forgot, I also did a small

Larson pedigree study

 

I wanted to see what was a median grade of those pedigrees.

 

Btw just found out yesterday that in terms of quality San Fransisco is nearly equivalent of Mile High. (Heritage's database is full of white paged NM copies)

 

 

[PedigreeMan]

Wow. Very impressive start there, fellas. And here I thought I was obsessive about pedigrees!

 

Al

[Aman619]

very cool graph.! Imsure it took a looong time, but I for one would love to look at this type of information for lots of Golden age titles. thank you.