Comicpedigrees.com Announces the 45 Pedigreed Golden Age Collections for Upcoming Book

This week, Comicpedigrees.com has posted the 45 Golden Age collections included in their upcoming book, entitled "The Guide to Comic Book Pedigrees, Volume I." The list includes summaries of each collection, and includes a sample of graphs, pictures, and charts that will appear in the book. "We've spent countless hours discussing which collections will make this list," says Matt Nelson, who is co-authoring the pedigree book with Stephen Ritter and CGC Graders, Mark Haspel and West Stephan. "Many were obviously going to make it, like the Mile High, Larson, Allentown and Pennsylvania. These collections have been around for decades, and became part of the hobby's landscape a long time ago. Others were more difficult to agree on, because they were either too new or the collections were never disbursed into the hobby, such as the Chinatown, Williamsport, and Northern Cal pedigrees. There were also a few that have never received the attention they deserve. We feel they deserve inclusion based on their size, depth, and quality, like Cookeville and Toledo."

Stephen Ritter adds that they were careful to assess each collection by the four criteria generally expected of a pedigree — quality, size, presence of key issues, and market acceptance. "Because some collections were never assimilated into the hobby, it's impossible to gauge market acceptance on every one. In these cases, we had to rely on the other three criteria to determine whether those particular collections deserved inclusion." In addition to the story behind each collection, the original lists will be published in the book, as well as detailed charts and graphs that reveal genre, publisher, and grade trends within each pedigree. The 45 collections will also be ranked by grade, page quality, size, scarcity, and value. "There will definitely be some eye-openers once readers see how the pedigrees compare to each other," says Ritter.

The list of 45 pedigreed collections can be found at comicpedigrees.com/pedigrees.htm. The Web site also discusses the four criteria for pedigreed collections, as well as updates on the forthcoming book, which has a tentative release date at the end of 2007.

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