So basically he paid the heirs pennies on the dollar for millions of dollars of comics...

Is there a way to export your collection data as a spreadsheet?

How have you being doing since then. Im quite new to the hobby both reading and collecting. Quite overwhelmed with watching a lot of videos where people kind go into dollar bins and pick up keys. I also am having the dilemma of should I just be picking up keys? or should I read first. I read digitally . So should I go about reading digitally and then if I like the series pick out the keys that I like and overtime I will build a wealth of knowledge of which books are keys ? and then will also have the ability to bin dive and find keys ?is that the secret?

wait, so you gave a bunch of money to a pedo for stolen comic books? yikes!

Great vid

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 KZbin for a great story.

I'm still not clear on the Sinestro recall, all I see is some white slits that look like a color break, are we not to assume that Sinestro uses hair gel to slick back his hair? 😆

Awesome story thanks for sharing

He probably could have offered them $500. It was garbage to them. He was way too generous.

Damn, this brings back some memories. I was sixteen at the time, working for Chuck at the old Broadway warehouse that summer. Probably the youngest employee at the time. Took three days for a couple dozen of us to unload five semi trailers. Bout killed me.

The Universe X Spidey sketch recalled estimated to have 50 copies only. Rarest among this recalled title.

I see so much greed

So u robbed em

Make documentaries please this was great

Comic tom said to come check uou out now i know why i hate them ... & you don't let people know what to collect and what Not you twobare like the real that is what you two are nothing but Drama....

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

Is there a way to mass delete your collection? I need to start over with the books I have and do not have because I had not been keeping good track.

Insane

ACTION #1 9.0+ .... 🫀🚫💀⚰️🥀

Those 1971 Third Eye greeting cards are so great. If Chuck got 60K of these cards, that's 2500 complete sets of 24 if they were in sets. In 2023 these sets sell for 500-2000 dollars. The average single card sells for over 25 dollars on eBay: 60K x 25 = 1.5 million in Marvel greeting cards!

Yep and he's still an asshole that has his books too high!

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?

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!

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

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.

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!

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??🥹

❤❤❤wow...the phenomenal paper to riches...😮😮😮

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

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

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

I DO have a fascinating story about "The Foot High Collection"...

I love stories like this! I'd also like to point out what an excellent illustrator Mr. Church was!

Had Blue Devil issues #1-#6 was just wandering how much they would be worth? Dont remember what i ended up doing with them. They didn't make it through my party years '91-'97.

What an amazing story But the Church heirs must hate you.

Fan-zeen. Not zine…

Edgar Church's artwork was awesome and would love to have some

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

If you didn't report the vile stuff to the authorities that's pretty shady by the way.

What is the source for this story? I don't see it on Chucks blog. My grandmother used to get those unsold comics for me with the top of the cover ripped off when she worked at Woolworths in Richmond way back in the day.

Ok so I’m looking for a amazing Spider-Man #350 but when I look it up I can’t find it

The cash bribe was a Pro move! At the perfect time! Hell of a story, hell of a head ache, hell of a pay-off!

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!

Why? Who cares?

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Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time and effort for sharing your knowledge 😎👍

Around 2005 or 6 or so, i was going through some 50 cent bins and i picked up multiple copies of various uncanny xmen 252-almost 300, i think it was like 292 was the last one. They had 3 copies of 266, which was just fantastic.

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.

Why are some comic issues missing like 157 Uncanny X-men and how do you add them

Just recently, I’ve been getting into comics. Feel like I’ve been bitten by a bug 😊