The Most Valuable Comic Book Collection In History
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- Опубликовано: 7 дек 2021
- This is the story of the $50 Million Dollar Comic Book Collection that was discovered by Mile High Comics owner, Chuck Rozanski, narrated by Key Collector Comics.
The Edgar Church Collection consisted of between 18,000 - 22,000 comic books in excellent condition including Action Comics #1, the first appearance of Superman which sold in April 2021 for $3.25 million dollars.
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I once found 20 bucks and got really excited, imagine how this guy must of felt.
have* felt.
Were you 7 years old when you found the 20.
I was just getting into comics in 1979-80 and I remember being amazed at Chuck's ads in comics! It totally turned me on to collecting back issues. I still have a few that I ordered from him back then. Thanks Chuck and Thanks to Mr. Church!
I would have a heart attack if i came across a collection like that.It's a collection we all dream.of.
You earned it! Every cent! Got lucky, you bet… but you gotta be in the ring taking punches to get a knockout. Edgar Church was apparently an amazingly cool person. You sir are a Saint for preserving his history and art. Your story is the best listen I’ve had in some time!
Great video! Thanks for sharing!! I'd heard of the Church collection but now I know the Mile High connection and story.
I love stories like this! I'd also like to point out what an excellent illustrator Mr. Church was!
Your story telling skills are outstanding. Looking forward to you doing more of these.
Thank you!
I've watched this several times over the years, and each time have a greater appreciation for all of the actors who made this happen. Thank you to Edgar Church for amassing this collection, to his heirs for having the wisdom to pass it on to others, to Chuck Rozanski for having the courage to purchase the collection, and to Key Collector Comics for sharing this amazing story with the rest of the world!
If Key Collector is someday in financial trouble, you can always turn to radio or books-on-tape career. Top notch narration! 😍
Yikes. Hope not. Haha. Thank you Tomi
Wow Nick your amazing at narration! I had a blast just listening to you tell this legendary story most all of us have heard portions of in the comic community. Thank you for that!
Thank you so much Bill
Awesome story thanks for sharing
Wow! Thank you Nick! What a fantastic story!
This is every collectors' dream story.
Thought I knew how Chuck got into comics all those years ago. Boy, was I wrong. Thanks for this stroll down Chuck’s memory lane. He really is an American treasure!
Chuck is a drag queen now and him and his drag queen buddies perform shows for little kids.
Great story! Great narration!!
I actually met Chuck in the early 80s as a budding collector of high grade golden age comics. Being from SD I had the good fortune of attending Comic Con starting in 1979. It wasn’t until 1983 or 84 though that I met Mr Rozanski. I was 16 and as usual walking the bourse floor in search of elusive near mint to mint copies of any superhero title, only to be told time and again, they just don’t exist. Even at a show of that size, near mint golden age books were sadly few and far between. Not to mention the sad reactions I got from most dealers when I politely passed on their nice but sub par, to me anyhow, Fine to Very Fine books. Somewhere, somehow I caught the mint bug and to the dismay of most dealers, a Mint Freak was forged. Fortunately a friendlier dealer suggested I visit the guys at the Mile High table if it was mint copies that I was after. Sure enough there was Chuck with his rows and rows of long boxes / crates of NM and better Golden Age gems! As I sifted through his boxes I stopped at a issue of Daredevil Comics with a great cover and proceeded to compare the sticker price with the guide value and was shocked to find he was asking 1.5 times mint guide! Needless to say my “savvy” young self was not about to be ripped off so I politely passed and took my little wad of cash and moved on. There must’ve been at least twenty long boxes of some of the finest pedigree comics I would ever see and I didn’t buy even a single copy! And keep in mind most of these were books that catalogued under a $100 bucks! Needless to say the following year I came to my senses and made a beeline for Chuck’s booth and spent every penny I’d saved on the most beautiful comics I could afford. It was a mishmash of titles, but every book was a gem (a 9.4 to 9.8 by todays standards) and with great cover art. And because I bought so many he let me have them for 1.25 times the Overstreet guide price. He even told me a little bit about how he acquired the collection and that it was the heirs and their lawyer or realtor that had set the price. If memory serves right, he said they wanted 10 cents for each comic. Exactly what Edgar had paid for them, and not a penny less. I’ll never forget that great conversation nor the fact that by the following year when I went back for more Mile Highs, he had sold the remainder of the books to another dealer :( Sadly I sold off my entire collection of NM/M Golden Age pedigrees in the mid 90s and today take great pride whenever I see one of my near pristine “babies” sell at auction for a hundred times or more what I paid. Books from the Mile High, San Francisco, Pennsylvania and Allentown collections respectively. Plus I always had an eye for cover art and am proud to say that many of the books I bought were later designated as a “Classic Cover” in Overstreet. Needless to say I sometimes wish I still owned those beautiful books but the memory of them will have to do. And keep in mind this was pre CGC and slabbing, so yes, I even got to handle those supple beauties and occasionally even sniff them. If you know, you know 😂 Anyone out there got a Time Machine I can borrow??🥹
I think that old timer named Doc Brown has one. You may have to settle for going back to 1955, tho. 😀
Excellent story Nick!
Great video Nick
WOW! Bravo! This is the story that any boy who took comics seriously (like me) that dreams are made of.
This is "The Beatles having a flat tire in front of your house" event!
I think you were more than fair with the family. They obviously knew NOTHING about what they had, and you knew ALOT!
This is a thrilling story. I usually don't have the patience for long personal stories like this.
But this is the biggest ride in the amusement park; and you were tall enough!
Incredible! ☺☺☺☺
It's just nice when you chase your passion and follow your dreams, probably had a lot of people look down on you for your life choices. But you beat all the bastards and left them in the ditch. You're a winner. Well done bro.
Well done Nick. I enjoyed the Edgar Church story immensely. Incredible.
Thank you Ray
@@KeyCollectorComics Did you ever hear of Maxwell Seely a comic book seller ( he advertised in America to sell ) from Montreal?
@@quiricomazarin476 I haven’t
@@KeyCollectorComics He was the 1st premier comic seller in Montreal from the very early 70's from his skyscraper appt. He was before there were any proper comic stores in the city ( around mid & after 70's ) & sold his whole collection in the early mid 80's to one of the bigger comic stores in the city.
Anyhoo Bonjour from Canada God keep you well.
P.S;
I enjoyed the last man standing t.v series set in Colorado....& although my Canadian roots are in quebec city & it sucked when the nordiques left for Denver ( don't even mention my Habs giving away Patrick Roy to the Avs )....I hope you guys beat Tampa Bay for the Stanley Cup.
This story was AWESOME!!!! Thanks for sharing it.
Thank you David
I am awed at his and your impact on the comics industry.
This is like a person selling a Lottery winners ticket for a tiny fraction of what it was worth. He was there at the right time at the right place. Thats called extreme good luck. His profit margins must have been astronomical and it more than likely led to him being extremely wealthy. Good luck to him. I was born in 1971 and got into comics in the 80's so missed out on most of the Golden Age stuff. Ive got a good collection But I havent come across Action Comics 1 in mint condition yet or will this ever happen. What a lucky man. A lot of people would be very jelous of a person having such good luck as this. I say its a great story and We all have good luck at times, and bad luck.
Edgar Church's artwork was awesome and would love to have some
Bravo! I enjoyed your story of fate, hard work and perseverance.
Totally amazing super duper Neat'O story and video Brother Thanks for sharing 😀 👍 ♥️ 🇺🇸🇨🇦♥️🎉🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉💯💯💯💯
👏👏👏This was nicely done!👍
It wiill replace "The night before Christmas " in my house for years to come!
“… and up from the basement he emerged with a grunt,
Bearing all of the comics a fanboy could want.
Red Raven! Green Lantern! He checked the next shelf…
What he saw made him SQUEEE! all in spite of himself!”
I have to watch this in sections....my constitution can't take to see it all at one time
My brain can only explode so many times
An excellent story told with passion and understanding. Of course, every negative comment Chuck got came from pure envy. He was in the right place at the right time and every comic reader/collector should take this as a warning to curate your collection and keep them pristine. Best to all.
Thank you Joe
I bagged and boarded Amazing Spider-Man 121 off the newsstand, it was graded 7.5. That these books much older got grades over 9 is truly amazing.
Makes sense why some sell for quite a bit in high grades
WOW that was a awesome story great job Nick
Thank you Ruben. Good to hear from you
Excellent!
Such a great story !!! Incredible find
God put u in the right place
amazing story. and just think, collections like this might still be out there somewhere....
This one was an extreme but agreed there are still a lot of buried treasures
Lee Kirby Ditko Comics on RUclips is a perfect example
salute! great story!
A terrific and informative historical account. I am curious if Edgar was in any condition to meet Chuck and if Chuck ever communicated directly with Edgar. I was surprised to learn Edgar was still alive at the time of this liquidation of his comics. Not sure if his ailment was mental (dementia) or more physical? What a journey and surprise ending for his collection.
Thank you. I don't think that meeting was arranged but then again, I can't say for sure
Awesome story!
Amazing story.
This was a fantastic story!
I've got a Lamont Larsen All American Comics #7 in 3.0 condition, It's not quite up there with any of the books from the Edgar Church collection,
But you just have to take what you can find. 😉
YOUR BEGINNING REMINDED ME OF MY OWN. MY BEST FRIEND AND I PUT ARE HEADS AND COMICS TOGETHER AND WE HAD APPROXIMATELY 15,000 COMICS BETWEEN US FROM 1935 - THE PRRESENT, AND WE FORMED GALAXY COMICS.
WE STARTED A MAIL ORDER BUSINESS, HIT THE COMIC CON CIRCUIT, AND THOSE COMICS, GOT ME A CAR, A FEW THOUSAND FOR COLLEGE, AND ABOUT 600.00$ A WEEKEND EXTRA AFTER COST AT COMIC-CONS!!! GARY BAILEY KING OF DARKNESS NOT BAD FOR A 17 YR. OLD!! GARY BAILEY THIS
WAS A STUPENDOUS EPISODE
Wow I'm just saying thank you for this evening true powerful video essay commentary is indeed in my opinion 'A TRUE CLASSIC' video history. Story. Again thank you for your deep point of view.
❤❤❤wow...the phenomenal paper to riches...😮😮😮
Beautiful story has Edger Church's art been collected in a book
truly incredible
WOOOW!!!! What an amazing and wonderful and rewarding and beautiful story I loved and enjoyed it, and talk about luck WOOOW!!!! Thank You for the story, because I love/d the old comics, but a little out of an old pensioners price range...sadly!! Thank You RUclips for a great story.
Great story, Nick. Thanks for sharing.
Well worth listening to.😎
Preparation truly met opportunity
I think Edgar Church must have been a time traveler to spec on Action Comics 1. Although, I guess I would travel back in time and buy multiple copies.
This is a great presentation, but I have mixed feelings about this story. Rozanski paid $1800 for this collection -- less than face value for every book, which even in 1977 was a steal. This strikes me as a perfect storm of an elderly man with health problems, a set of uncaring heirs, and a semi-scrupulous buyer. What's worse is that today, now that Rosanski has made his fortune, he jacks up his prices to avoid selling any of it. Great find, but a shame nonetheless.
Great comment. Love to hear people’s opinion on this. Just to be CLEAR - the sold info that you’re seeing on the slides and the approximated value of the collection today is NOT what Chuck made off of this collection.
Chuck’s blog goes into far more detail on his desire to ethically profit off of this collection. Of course, the narrative, conceptually is his own account and is framed as he sees fit. Side note: much of the original writing was reformatted for this platform.
I can’t say I would admonish him for buying it for that amount. Supposing $1,800 is true, which we have no way to corroborate, is about $7k today. I don’t know how much he made off of the collection but many comic retailers attempt to secure collections as inexpensively as possible. Most of the collections offered to them are more of an inventory burden than a financial boon.
We’ve all heard people bemoan collections thrown away by family. It’s almost a miracle that this one was saved. A different buyer was approached but said he didn’t make house calls.
I’m not sure there would be an amount that he paid where he wouldn’t be criticized but that money would just be going to people who seemingly had zero affection or attachment to the books. The resale of the books, if you look at the slides that show a pair of white sheets of paper, shows a reasonably modest resale price. That being said, I often hear Mile High criticized for their prices but they’re a business, there are other options and they’ve endured.
Disclaimer: I am not compelled to defend Chuck’s decisions or business practices. I’ve never met him. Thanks again for leaving a comment!
@@KeyCollectorComics Thanks for the reply. I have met Chuck and have been a customer at Mile High since the 80's. First, it's clear from Chuck's own account -- no matter how he clearly spins it -- that he KNEW he was dealing with a serious collector who lovingly cared for this one-of-a-kind collection, who had fell on bad times healthwise. It's also clear that his family just wanted to be rid of the collection, and I think Chuck knew that if he was dealing directly with the old man, he never would have got such a good deal.
Regarding the Mile High business model -- they USED to be a great company to deal with. All through the 90s, they had great stock with great prices. But as Chuck accumulated more profit, he's reverted to a business model where he admittedly does not really want to sell much of his collection. That's up to him, but he comes across as a bit smug, which is kind of hard to take when you realize how he lucked into the genesis of his business.
@@RonSM2112 Seeing what those books go for today…it has to hurt. I understand why they were sold at the time but I doubt anyone could’ve anticipated they would be worth what they are today and if they knew, would reconsider selling a handful for a cushy retirement
@@KeyCollectorComics
LOL. There's no such thing as "ethically profit"
@@Habs8691 Without profit we have starvation for all, with profit we have jobs and an economy. So of course profit is ethical.
It’s easy to pass judgment when you’ve never had this situation presented before. He was in a position to take these books off someone’s hands who are just as soon thrown them away. I once got 100 GA books for $280. And I once bought a dozen Xmen books GSX1, 94,101,129, etc for cover price from someone filling in at a pawn shop. I can still remember my hands shaking I was 14. I actually like the story where he goes to New York and buy the second collection and the guy snorting cocaine and he gets all these books that were supposed to be returned to the publisher. Just don’t get the prices today ? Who just sold the did Church Action #1 was it the dentist 🦷?
Wish there was more info on the mega keys, but a fun watch overall
There's not a whole lot of historical data on sales. As far as contents of the collection, nearly every comic from every publisher with distribution from 1937 thru 1957
How many people paused the video to look at the prices from that 1981 listing and the other one right after that? $10 for Incredible Hulk #1, $20 for Amazing Spider-Man 129? $50 for #7-9, $20 for Incredible Hulk 181???????????? What I wouldn't give to be able to go back in time!
You should pause it at the part towards the end where there are the two slides with two white pages on each that show how much he was selling the books for when everyone got mad at him
Absolutely amazing story!
Thank you!
Thanks!
Incredible
I can't help but think the heirs to this man's comic collection had no idea what kind of money was tied up in these books, only looking on them as only trash and an eyesore. Along comes someone who knows the family has a gold mine downstairs, but neglects to tell them and instead keeps the profits to himself. Not a feel good story in any terms, only greed.
Totally agree, if the guy who bought the collection had integrity and honesty he would have told them the millions that were there. But he didn’t, he probably paid a cool and quiet few thousands and ran off to history. Can’t help but feel sorry for the family and heirs.
RIP to the soul who collected all the comics. The price he paid was a good example of "Not everyone values what you value and that's okay." This story is a great example of how small things become even bigger things that we all know today. :D
This story is the same old story of a shyster with a yarmulke
Great story 👍
If the heirs couldn't be bothered to find out the value of the collection, that's down to them, better it was saved than trashed, you profited on the backs of philistines, well done!
In business you want to break even and beyond. You did that. No one lives forever. You made your money back and with the overlap continue to live. With all of those 9.0 you did well. All the best.
I feel so sorry for edgar church, his wife and his relatives being retold how they lost their comic fortune
Imagine getting sick and have you kids sell action comics 1 behind your back. Also liked the excuse of selling at 2.5x cost to "save the golden age market". Nevertheless it's exciting to think of stumbling into that kind of collection
Imagine that they were also just gonna throw the comics away if no one bought them lol
@@stephenwise2066 I remember a story from around this time where a guy saw brightly colored paper protruding from a bag by a trash can. Inside the bag were comics which he took home for his young son.
Later that day someone told him about the value of old comics and he returned to his son’s room and discovered that what he had brought home was a run of Whiz Comics and Captain Marvel Adventures beginning with the first issue of each - all of which had already been reduced to mulch by the toddler.
in the 1970s that was like $10-20 each
I wish mile high comics would have more original and EC reprints in high grade
"This is the story of the $50 Million Dollar Comic Book Collection that was discovered by Mile High Comics owner, Chuck Rozanski, narrated by Key Collector Comics".
And now charges twice comic value because 50 million isn't enough and no one should ever feel what he felt at that moment, ever.
And "I'm smart for not contributing to my own country" - 2016.
Bitter are we?
I’m reading Seth’s Wimbledon Green and I can’t believe it’s based on a true story!!
The word fanzine is pronounced fanzeen like magazine. It's short for fan made magazine
[...]...I understood the value of that collection
Oh great the annual advertisement for Mile High (priced) Comics. Tell your buddy at MHC to buy a functional webpage for ordering.
Mr Rozanski is a lot more than only discovering the Edgar Church collection. I strongly believe that he is one of the most important people that shaped the hobby of comic collecting. Everybody should read about his story. I think a book should be published...
Maybe a mini series is more fitting
@@TheMisfits7783 A graphic novel…
over time when the value of the collection became known, the the family ever come back legally that he didn't pay enough or did they never notice?
Good question. Probably something the buyer would never disclose.
Insane
Reading from chucks website
Eh. Not quite.
Awesome story, have heard bits and pieces of this epic collection, don’t know how I feel about this story but sometimes lucky breaks are part of the business, he is a business man after all
When you hit the deal of all time, you need to be smart. You would have been better off closing your comic business, getting a regular job and sitting on your collection for 20+ tears. Hindsight.
you'd need to know cgc and mcu would be coming. the mile high comic business might be worth $50m too.
Quite the curse!
That moment you said to your inner self while your making the deal... KATCHING IM GOING TO BE A MILLIONAIRE very soon lol..Good job..Stuff like this aint going to happen again..Congrats!..Now can I get a good deal on a CGC 9.8 SPAWN #1 lol
Veve has licensed digital comics !!
No one should ever regret taking hold when the swine cast pearls at you.
He probably could have offered them $500. It was garbage to them. He was way too generous.
Sure it's amazing,... Pretty messed up tho how the Mile High Help Desk for example is run by mean passive-aggressive alienating people that avoid eye contact and act upset at any little question -you are in their way. "No way am I ever returning here after working all week just so I can sit in traffic and yet again, another weekend wasted spending my day off, to be treated like I am some thing like a nuisance, never coming back here", and she just gave me a double-take like how dare I say that while I was walking away...I said that very plainly to the woman at the help desk after her interrupting me telling me to look up on my phone their inventory myself at their site then she reluctantly looks for the four comics I asked about after making me stand there and have her finish her texting, no one else around waiting, just me, they do not need your money at this place, such rude people at Mile High Comics, total bummer after being a fan before moving here three years ago, awful, dismissive, arrogant, mean treatment to people that do not "fit in" their comfort zone. It is serious mean passive aggressive bigotry that is actually common in this Denver area, and along the Front Range, people are pretty cruel here though over all on the roads and just with customers and co-workers. The loneliness living in this country bumkin / suburbanite asphalt and traffic that caters to the military, condo flippers, strip malls, parking lots and fracking...like this country sense of owning a truck means non-truck owners must give them right of way while zero police are on the freeways and you have two extra lanes unused bcuz they are toll lanes, messed up... Awful here in the middle of soccer moms and red neck laziness and cruelty, very weird to be surrounded by this in this elevated desert w/traffic, then have to take an unconcious bias training course at some company that depends on DoD spending and anyone that is not active military is treated like something to ignore if not treat like citizens are chumps and a waste of time,... There is no "diversity" here in all ways, not just today's politics, in all ways, there is nothingness and air pollution here... Total activ-shooter country here
WOW is all I can say
🤯🤯
What an amazing story But the Church heirs must hate you.
I almost threw up when I heard the words "I'm just going to throw them in the trash"
If the guy was still alive how could the family sell his collection?
They raised the price of their books to make more money, if not why do they still have a price guide 2 to 3 times higher then everyone today. Let’s not pretend mile high was trying to do right by the comic book industry.
You definitely got lucky
and too think of those books that got hauled off by the trasman.....
your app really needs to be updated.....ultimated Spiderman #1 is more than $25 cover A..... along with dozens of other books. not happy for a customer for your app
"Fan-zeen"
So you’re saying Chuck gave away an Action Comics #1 and kept all issues of the Spirit? ☠️
Hahah!
Yup.
yeah the ones he kept were interesting.
Mile High Comics suck! He says he doesn't want to sell comics then gripes because his CgC books haven't been repriced.
Drove me crazy when I went to this one shop in WI that wouldn’t sell his comics. He had great stock but his store was more like a museum
Fan-zeen. Not zine…
I see so much greed
Chuck likes to wear dresses.
Haters gonna hate.
They love to hate
So u robbed em
And he stole them for the cover price, and then spent years whining about how he should of got more for them.
they were $5-10 books in the 1970s.
Chuck is a trans groomer. Not a fan