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If Chuck wasn't able to come up with the capitol to purchase the Church books, or if he decided for whatever reason to NOT follow the lead, or he was away on vacation at the time.
Who would have been next in line to buy the collection? Or would it all have been thrown away?
Anyone know?
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If you look at the lower left-hand side, it appears the bottom bin has a copy of Will Eisner's M16A1 Preventive Maintenance Magazine just to the left of the Uncanny X-Men 137.
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Originally Posted By: Monstro
Don't know which thread to post this in so I'll try both.
If Chuck wasn't able to come up with the capitol to purchase the Church books, or if he decided for whatever reason to NOT follow the lead, or he was away on vacation at the time.
Who would have been next in line to buy the collection? Or would it all have been thrown away?
Anyone know?
I do know that several dealers were contacted by Edgar Church's family before Chuck, and none of them showed any interest in the collection. (Not knowing what was actually there, of course.) And if I remember correctly, Chuck salvaged many pieces of Edgar Church's artwork from the garbage. I do not know how many dealers they contacted before Chuck, or if the family would have continued to try to sell the books if Chuck hadn't jumped on the deal.
Kinda makes a person ill thinking of that collection being thrown in the garbage, doesn't it?
After Bruce and Burrell departed, I returned to Edgar Church's house. On this trip I brought with me some friends from Boulder who specialized in pulp magazines. They made a deal with the Church heirs for the magazines in the mysteriously empty room that I mentioned in my last installment of this story. In a shocking development, however, the middle books in the 7 foot tall, by 4 foot wide, shelving unit were ruined! The spines of all these pulp magazines were all bright and colorful, but there was a pipe running over the top of the bookshelf that led to an outside spigot. At some time in the distant past, this pipe had sprung a pinhole leak, and over the years the drops of water from the leak had run down the wall and lodged in the pulps. When we tried to pull them off of the shelves, all the issues in the middle of the individual shelves were bonded together into a huge mass of black fungus! All I could think about when I saw those books that had been destroyed was that I was so thankful that this disaster hadn't happened to all the wonderful Golden Age comics...
My friends, the pulp dealers, were very dismayed at this unforeseen damage, but they still obtained about 200 NM/M WEIRD TALES, SPICY MYSTERY, and SPICY DETECTIVE pulps. The heirs got another nice payment for this batch of magazines. On this trip I also paid them additional funds for the remaining reference files from the main room of the basement. Once those were all loaded, the heirs asked me if I would be interested in the contents of Edgar Church's office.
Edited by Bosco685 (07/08/1008:53 AM) Edit Reason: Water Leak Info
Don't know which thread to post this in so I'll try both.
If Chuck wasn't able to come up with the capitol to purchase the Church books, or if he decided for whatever reason to NOT follow the lead, or he was away on vacation at the time.
Who would have been next in line to buy the collection? Or would it all have been thrown away?
Anyone know?
I do know that several dealers were contacted by Edgar Church's family before Chuck, and none of them showed any interest in the collection. (Not knowing what was actually there, of course.) And if I remember correctly, Chuck salvaged many pieces of Edgar Church's artwork from the garbage. I do not know how many dealers they contacted before Chuck, or if the family would have continued to try to sell the books if Chuck hadn't jumped on the deal.
Kinda makes a person ill thinking of that collection being thrown in the garbage, doesn't it?
Wonder if any of those dealers are still in the business, the must be kicking themselves.
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#4128200 - 07/08/1009:37 AMRe: Chuck sells RED RAVEN #1 Mile High Copy and more
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I was posting here when you were in diapers.
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If I am correct I believe it was a real estate agent who was shopping around trying to find a buyer of the collection, the family just wanted it gone and were throwing it away.
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Originally Posted By: Artboy99
If I am correct I believe it was a real estate agent who was shopping around trying to find a buyer of the collection, the family just wanted it gone and were throwing it away.
You are correct!
Twenty-five years ago this week (mid-January 1977), my future wife, Nanette, took a phone call in our Boulder, Colorado Mile High Comics store. The call was from a friend of ours, who was a clerk at a Science Fiction bookstore down the street. Nanette had worked at this bookstore until she came to work at Mile High Comics. This bookstore was also the original home of the first Mile High Comics store, as I had rented their back room for two years. This friend gave her the phone number of a Realtor who had called the bookstore looking to unload a "large" batch of old comics.
Don't know which thread to post this in so I'll try both.
If Chuck wasn't able to come up with the capitol to purchase the Church books, or if he decided for whatever reason to NOT follow the lead, or he was away on vacation at the time.
Who would have been next in line to buy the collection? Or would it all have been thrown away?
Anyone know?
I do know that several dealers were contacted by Edgar Church's family before Chuck, and none of them showed any interest in the collection. (Not knowing what was actually there, of course.) And if I remember correctly, Chuck salvaged many pieces of Edgar Church's artwork from the garbage. I do not know how many dealers they contacted before Chuck, or if the family would have continued to try to sell the books if Chuck hadn't jumped on the deal.
Kinda makes a person ill thinking of that collection being thrown in the garbage, doesn't it?
Wonder if any of those dealers are still in the business, the must be kicking themselves.
Ask Richard, MrBedrock, to relate the story of when he dropped in on one of those dealers
If you look at the lower left-hand side, it appears the bottom bin has a copy of Will Eisner's M16A1 Preventive Maintenance Magazine just to the left of the Uncanny X-Men 137.
The cover art alone makes it worth having one.
I have a copy, still sealed. A seller on eBay had a bunch of these he was selling off a while back.
