Thoughts?

Doesn't look like CGC gave it a ped designation. Reading between the lines, the article does not specifically mention ALL the books were purchased off the news stand by the owner.

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Stephen Fishler, CEO of Metropoliscomics.com and ComicConnect.com, got the phone call every comic book dealer dreams of receiving. The caller had kept his comics in “pretty nice shape” since he bought them off the stands back in the ‘30s and early ‘40s and … he was ready to sell.

The buyer bought most of the comics before he left to fight in World War II, and picked up the collecting bug again on his return in 1946. For years, his daughter begged him to throw out all his old junk until he took her to a local convention with a sample of the books and found out his collection was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. “Aren’t you glad we kept the comics?” he asked his daughter with a grin. The family is using the proceeds from the sale to pay off mortgages and college funds.

“This could be the last great collection,” said Rob Reynolds, Director of Consignments. “I was blown away when I saw the Atlantic City comics in person. It’s almost easier to believe the owner had a time machine. For someone to keep these amazing comics in such pristine shape, and most importantly off the market for 70 years is incredible.”

The Atlantic City Collection will debut in the ComicConnect.com July/August Event Auction with many books available for review at San Diego Comic Con and Chicago Wizard World.
With major Golden Age keys such as Captain America Comics #1 CGC 9.2, Fight Comics #1 CGC 9.4, and Flash Comics #1 CGC 9.0, the collection also contains a dozen CGC-certified highest graded comics.

Highest graded examples include: Action Comics #10 CGC 9.0, Action Comics #13 CGC 9.2, Action Comics #19 CGC 9.4, Action Comics #20 CGC 9.0, Action Comics #31 CGC 9.4, Amazing Mystery Funnies V.2 #7 CGC 9.2, Detective Comics #25 CGC 9.0, Detective Comics #36 CGC 8.5, Jumbo Comics #10 CGC 8.0, Marvel Mystery #12 CGC 9.2, Superman #3 CGC 9.0, and Whiz Comics #4 CGC 9.0.

“Having been in the comic book business for half my life, these comics made an indelible impression on me. I’ve never seen a collection that comes close to the grades represented in the Atlantic City Collection,” added Vincent Zurzolo, Chief Operating Officer

It's funny how they find it so amazing that the comics have been off the market for 70 years. Don't they realize that some people love comics and want to keep them. It's as if comics are all about flipping for profit. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

Also, I can't believe that Vincent has "...never seen a collection that comes close to the grades represented in the Atlantic City Collection." There are other pedigrees out there with high grade books and I'm sure he has seen a lot of them.

Mike

I would like to know what happened to the Action #9. The Tec #27 disappeared too. The #10 is a CGC 9.0 and the #13 is a 9.2. These two books alone will sell for big bucks. Not to mention the 9.2 Cap #1 and 9.2 Tec #33

Is it confirmed they were part of the collection?

As the Boomers keep passing on, these stories will keep rolling out and the collection / pedigree designation is going to suffer for it as additional ones hit the market. I'm not saying we'll see an end of the collecting niche, but I think it will lose some of the mystique that really drives much of the demand. Think about it: How many collections and pedigrees have come to market in the past 2-5 years? Compare that to the number that came out in the prior 20 years.

That doesn't take anything away from the awesomeness of seeing books in that condition that are that old--the Cap, to me, is the ringer of the bunch--but I guess I'd be a little concerned if I collected books from pedigrees and collections.

They were on the top of the pile in the group shot photo.

I liked the line about this possibly being the "last great collection". That is just flat out rhetoric if I ever heard it. There is no way to know and the fact that this one went as long as it did before being released, shows that its possible that many great collections are still out there somewhere. The people selling the books want to put a title onto the collection so that it looks more prestigious. Are these great books? Hands down. Do they warrant a pedigree/collection name? I don't know. Calling it the Atlantic City Collection or not isn't going to make those books any more desirable than they already are.

Anyone notice how haphazardly they placed the Batman 1?!

Or the Tec 27 hanging off the edge of the table.

Gives it that "just discovered from original owner" look

400K for the 10 Actions is my guess.

GHOUL!

We aren't going anywhere yet!