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Welcome to Comic Book Pedigrees, the first and only website dedicated to pedigreed comic books. Pedigrees represent some of the most beautifully preserved vintage comic books in the world; famous, mysterious, and sought after by savvy collectors for decades.

It is a busy year for pedigreed comics. Three collections, Savannah, Suscha News, and Twin Cities have recently been recognized as pedigrees by CGC. Our book on pedigree collections is inching closer to completion, and we’re proud to announce the launch of our exclusive database of pedigrees.

Help Build The Pedigree Database

You can now search our massive database to see what pedigree copies of your favorite comics have been uploaded, and which are available to buy or bid on. Anyone can add their own pedigree comic scans with our simple uploading system, as well as link pedigree books to their sale or auction page. This database will continue to grow with your help, so if you own any of the estimated 100,000 pedigreed vintage comics out there, we’d love to see them on the website.

We'd like to extend a big thank you to Heritage Auctions for contributing the pedigree scans from their archive. Heritage has auctioned thousands of pedigreed comics over the past ten years, and is currently offering the new Twin Cities pedigree throughout 2011 at ha.com.

If you notice an errors on any listings, please notify us and we'll correct them immediately.

Our Forthcoming Book On Pedigrees

"The Book" is moving close to completion this year. Our 600 page, full-color book will cover 48 of the best comic collections from the Golden Age, including Larson, Cosmic Aeroplane, Allentown, and the colossal Edgar Church/Mile High collection. Each chapter will contain the pedigree’s backstory, charts and graphs analyzing its content, and the original list. Check out our update on the progress of this massive book, over six years in the making.

We've listed summaries of 48 Golden Age pedigree collections on the website, a snapshot of data that will be greatly expanded in the book. You can visit our official CGC thread to view book updates as we progress, and even take a sneak peek at the book’s Allentown chapter. The Allentown pedigree collection gave us the highest graded Detective #27 in existence when it was discovered back in 1987.

Three New Silver Age Pedigree Collections

In the span of less than 4 months, three fresh Silver Age pedigree collections have come to market. The first was the Savannah pedigree, featuring complete runs of DC and Marvel, with a focus on the ultra-rare DC war and romance genres. Following closely on its announcement came the Suscha News pedigree, chock-full of near perfect '60s comics, and finally the Twin Cities pedigree, a fresh, white paged collection boasting full runs of Marvel and DC from 1960-up.

This is extraordinary, considering that since CGC opened its doors over a decade ago, only six pedigreed collections have been recognized by them, and all but one are Golden Age (Central Valley, Palo Alto, Lost Valley, Vancouver, Northford, and Rocky Mountain).

TWIN CITIES PEDIGREE – Paul Litch, Vice-President of CGC had this to say about the collection: "When I saw the Twin Cities books I was astonished by how nice they were. The collection runs the scope of Silver Age Marvels and DCs and goes all the way to some stunning Copper Age books – beautiful books, beautiful preservation. Once collectors see them, they’ll understand why we decided to give them a pedigree designation on the CGC label."

For more information regarding the Twin Cities pedigree, go here.

SUSCHA NEWS PEDIGREE - Vincent Zurzolo, COO of Metropolis Comics, had been waiting 13 years to find another pedigree collection comparable to the Oakland collection he unearthed. "What makes the collection so special is not only the fact that the books are in overall spectacularly high grade condition with very rich inks and gloss and reflectivity that is so high it hardly makes sense, but that the books go back to the mid-1960s and go all the way up to 1976, therefore actually surpassing the Oakland collection on both its beginning and end dates."

For more information regarding the Suscha News pedigree, go here.

SAVANNAH PEDIGREE – This collection was discovered by Shelton Drum, owner of Heroes Aren’t Hard to Find in North Carolina, and consigned to Heritage Auctions in its entirety. “I was amazed by the consistent quality of the comics from 1959 and up,” Drum said. “While quite a few people have extensive collections of superhero comics from that era, almost nobody bought every genre. This collection also has all of the science fiction, horror/mystery, romance, and war comics, as well – lots of books you don’t usually see as a dealer or a collector. This guy bought everything! He collected DCs and Marvels as well as the other publishers like Charlton and Dell.”

For more information regarding the Savannah Pedigree, go here.