Pedigree Comics’ January Grand Auction is underway. The auction began on the night on Monday, January 9, 2017 and lasts for ten days until the night of Thursday, January 19 as a separate event at www.PedigreeComics.com.

The comic book listing of the auction closes on the night of Wednesday, January 18. The first lot will end beginning at 8:04 PM ET (Action Comics #36 8.0) and the last lot will end at 11:59 PM (X-Men #141 9.8). The original art listings close on Thursday, January 19 night beginning at 10 PM ET (World’s Finest Comics #252 page 15) and ending at 11:59 PM (Jonny Quest #2 Page 22).

There is no buyer’s premium on any of the lots in the auction and every comic book listing, save for a handful, has no reserve. Some of the original art items will be listed with a reserve. Every book is CGC or CBCS graded and the minimum bid is only $100 for this Grand Auction. You can view and bid on all 565 high grade comics and over 280 choice art pieces in the Auction Listing right now. Just go to the Pedigree Comics website and click on the Auction banner.

There are many incredible groups of books, runs as well as individual highest certified comics from a myriad of titles in the auction.

In November Pedigree received a consignment of a nice group of high grade comics from Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. There is a very nice mixture of titles, publishers and genres in the over 30 books with a bunch being the highest certified copy to date.

Highlights are Action Comics #36 8.0, Amazing Spider-Man #9 9.6, #14 9.6, #43 9.6, #121 9.8, and #129 9.8, Avengers #2 9.0 and #11 9.4, Batman #25 7.5, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1 9.8, Captain America #100 9.8, Doctor Strange #169 9.8, Fantastic Four #48 9.6, Giant-Size X-Men #1 9.8, Journey Into Mystery Annual #1 9.6, Justice League of America #10 9.0, Marvel Premiere #15 9.8, Nick Fury #1 9.8, Preacher #1 9.6, Superman #61 7.0, Tomb of Dracula #1 9.8 and #10 9.8, Uncanny X-Men #266 9.8, Walking Dead #1 9.8, #2 9.8 (CGC Signature Series), and #27 9.8, and X-Men #8 9.6, #9 9.4, and #94 9.8.

Pedigree recently received a consignment of an incredible collection of high grade Silver and early Bronze Age DCs from Atlantis, Florida. The collection of more than 150 books is highlighted by a spectacular run of over 100 Neal Adams DC cover issues, graded 9.6 to 9.8. Titles include Action Comics, Adventure Comics, Batman, Brave and the Bold, Detective Comics, Green Lantern, House of Mystery, Justice League of America, Phantom Stranger, Spectre, Strange Adventures, Superboy, Superman, Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, Tomahawk, Unexpected, Witching Hour, and World’s Finest Comics.

Almost every book in the Neal Adams collection, over 95%, is a 9.8 or a 9.6 and almost every one is the highest or second highest certified copy with a bunch being the single highest certified copy to date. In addition, every book has either white or off-white to white pages. Almost 50 of the books were just recently graded by the CGC in the past two months.

They include Action Comics #359 9.8, #364 9.8, #379 9.6, #397 9.8, #404 9.8, and #405 9.8, Adventure Comics #373 9.8, #375 9.6, and #376 9.8, Batman 224 #9.6 (Twin Cities), #231 9.8, #232 9.6, #234 9.8, #235 9.6, #251 9.8 (CGC signature Series), and #251 9.6, Brave and the Bold #86 9.6, #88 9.8, #90 9.6, and #95 9.6, Detective Comics #372 9.6, Green Lantern #76 9.4, #81 9.8, #82 9.6, #83 9.8, #85 9.8, #86 9.8, and #87 9.8, House of Mystery #181 9.6, #188 9.6, #197 9.8, and #199 9.8 (Northland), Justice League of America #82 9.6 and #89 9.8, Phantom Stranger #5 9.6, #6 9.6, #16 9.8, and #18 9.8, Spectre #2 9.8, #3 9.8 (Rocky Mountain), #4 9.8, and #5 9.8 (Savannah), Strange Adventures #209 9.6, Superboy #139 9.8, #143 9.6, #148 9.6, #152 9.6, #155 9.6, #159 9.6, #167 9.6, and #183 9.8, Superman #206 9.6, #208 9.6, #219 9.8, #233 9.6, #234 9.8, and #251 9.8, Superman’s Girlfriend Lois Lane #37 9.6, #79 9.6, #97 9.8, #101 9.8, #112 9.8, #115 9.8, #119 9.8, #121 9.8, #124 9.8, #126 9.8, #127 9.8, #128 9.8, #131 9.8, #132 9.8, #133 9.8, #134 9.8, and #135 9.8, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen #87 9.8, #109 9.6 (Savannah), #110 9.8, #111 9.6, #112 9.6, and #118 9.6, Tomahawk #118 9.6, #119 9.6, #121 9.6, #123 9.6, #124 9.6, #128 9.6, and #129 9.6, Unexpected #112 9.6, #114 9.6 (Mass. copy), and #124 9.6, Witching Hour #14 9.6, #16 9.6, and #18 9.6, World’s Finest Comics #174 9.8, #180 9.8, #183 9.8, #200 9.6 (Savannah) and #204 9.8.

Hero For Hire is hot right now and they have a near-complete run of the 16 issue title, which became Power Man with issue #17. Only three issues are missing from the run. Almost every book is a 9.8 (10 out of 13) with the rest in 9.6. Most of the books have white pages too. The list includes Hero For Hire #1 9.6, #2 9.8 (Oakland), #3 9.6, #4 9.8, #5 9.8, #6 9.8, #7 9.8, #8 9.8, #9 9.8, #10 9.8, #12 9.8, #14 9.8, and #15 9.6.

Pedigree has received quality original art for the auction from many different consignors from around the country. The almost 300 original pieces of comic art include many new iconic pages and covers as well as some amazing illustrations and recreation pieces. The highlight is the first ever appearance of Daredevil by Bill Everett from Daredevil #1, page 2 from early 1964. Since the original cover is no longer around and the image before this page two one was a stat, this is the very first drawn appearance available. 

Some other highlights include Murphy Anderson Strange Adventures #119 full color cover recreation, C.C. Beck Captain Marvel Adventures #5 page 10 large art from 1941, Nick Cardy Superboy #186 cover original art, Gene Colan Giant-Size Chillers #1 cover recreation, Steve Ditko Eerie #9 "Isle of The Beast" splash page from 1967, Jason Edmiston Jason Voorhees painting for Necca Toys, Will Eisner The Spirit #71 cover original art and prelim, Al Feldstein Crime Patrol #16 page 7 EC Comics, David Finch Batman: Dark Knight #6 page 9 (2012) of Scarecrow, Michael Golden Mutant X #28 cover original art, Frank Frazetta tiger and body part study illustration art, Adam Hughes personal sketchbook from the 1990s (34 pages of art), and Carmine Infantino classic 1966 Batman and Robin pin-up full color recreation.

Jack Kirby Captain America detailed pencil drawing, Mike Kaluta Shadow drawn illustration from 2002, E.E. McGuinness Wolverine vs Superman unpublished Wizard special cover original art, Rags Morales Turok #25 painted cover original art, James O’Barr The Crow Skinning The Wolves cover A original art, George Pérez Wonder Woman mixed media pinup (1988), Howie Post Anthro #6 page 1 splash page original art, Howard Porter JLA #37 cover original art, Ernie Schroeder Green Hornet #28 complete 9-page Spirit of '76 story, Jim Steranko Nick Fury detailed illustration done for Stan Lee's birthday (early ’70s), Jim Silke Cavegirl pin-up illustration from 2001, Bruce Timm Phoenix of the X-Men colored drawing, Freddie Williams Robin #173 cover original art, Dean Yeagle Mandy full color drawing “Leather & Socks,” Pablo Marcos How Spider-Man & The Incredible Hulk Began Talking story book original artwork, and Bernie Wrightson fan club portfolio illustration are also offered.

Pedigree has a group of high grade Silver and Bronze Age Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Tales, and Giant-Size comics from a collection out of England. There are over 20 books in the consignment and every book is a CGC certified 9.8, plus one in 9.9, and three in 9.6. Almost every book is the highest certified copy to date. They include Amazing Spider-Man #39 9.8, #47 9.8, #59 9.8, #62 9.8, #64 9.8, #74 9.8, #98 9.8, #130 9.8, #159 9.8, #173 9.8, #186 9.8, #189 9.9, #190 9.8, #191 9.8, #192 9.8, #193 9.8, #194 9.8, and #198 9.8, Giant-Size Defenders #1 9.8, Giant-Size Invaders #1 9.8, Marvel Tales #6 9.6, #13 9.8 (Pacific Coast), #16 9.6, #17 9.6, and #19 9.8.

They recently received a consignment of high grade Silver Age Marvels and DCs from a collection out of Atlanta, Georgia. There are over 20 books in the consignment and every book is a CGC certified 9.4 or 9.6, three are in 9.2, and one in 9.0. There are a bunch of popular titles and in-demand issues included and a few of the books are from pedigree collections. Highlights are Avengers #24 9.6, #49 9.6, #56 9.6, #86 9.6, and #90 9.6, Fantastic Four #89 9.6, Flash #123 9.4, Green Lantern #13 9.4, #20 9.2, #26 9.4, and #71 9.6 (Oakland), Journey Into Mystery #112 9.4, Justice League of America #28 9.4, Tales of Suspense #44 9.4 (Northland), #54 9.4, #63 9.4, and #76 9.6 (Suscha News), Tales to Astonish #39 9.2, #74 9.4 (Don/Maggie Thompson), #75 9.4 (Don/Maggie Thompson), and #87 9.6, and X-Men #15 9.2 (Curator).

They have a recent consignment consisting of a group of all 9.8 CBCS-certified Bronze Age Marvels from a collection out of Los Angeles, California. There are almost 30 books in the consignment and every book is a CBCS-certified 9.8. Every book, save for 3, is the highest certified copy to date. Titles include Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Captain America Annual, Devil Dinosaur, Eternals, Human Fly, Invaders, Ms. Marvel, Spectacular Spider-Man, and more. They include Amazing Spider-Man #152 9.8, #161 9.8, #179 9.8, and #180 9.8, Avengers #164 9.8, #167 9.8, #168 9.8, #169 9.8, and #173 9.8, Devil Dinosaur #1 9.8, Invaders #13 9.8, #16 9.8, #18 9.8, #25 9.8, #30 9.8, #32 9.8, #33 9.8, and #40 9.8, Marvel Premiere #35 9.8, Ms. Marvel #5 9.8, #7 9.8, and #8 9.8, and Spectacular Spider-Man #11 9.8.

The final consignment for the auction is a fabulous group of high grade CGC certified early Silver Age Fantastic Four issues from a collection out of Houston, Texas. There are ten books in the consignment highlighted by a stunning copy of Fantastic Four #1 in 9.0. Highlights are Fantastic Four #1 9.0, #3 9.2, #8 9.2, #10 9.2, #15 9.6, #20 9.6, #26 9.6, #44 9.8, #44 9.6, and #48 9.6.

If you have any questions or comments about the consignment process, any of the comic book lots or about the January Grand Auction and/or the upcoming April 2017 Grand Auction in general, contact Pedigree Comics’ CEO and President Doug Schmell at (561) 422-1120 (office) or (561) 596-9111 (cell) or at DougSchmell@pedigreecomics.com. For any consignment questions or comments regarding original comic art, contact Pedigree’s Comic Art Consignment Director Randy Lawrence at (561) 451-9800 (office) or (561) 886-8777 (cell) or at RandyLawrence@pedigreecomics.com. For any financial related and consignment payment questions, contact Pedigree’s CFO Lisa Shapiro at LisaJoy@pedigreecomics.com and for any technical related questions or concerns, contact their Web Master at WebDesigner@pedigreecomics.com.