Patsy Walker in Top Graded Edgar Church Teen Comics #22, at Auction

The altering fortunes of the comedian e book trade after WWII may generally be abrupt.  Throughout the battle years, Marvel’s All Winners Comics had been a title that had featured the corporate’s prime superhero stars in Captain America, Human Torch, and Sub-Mariner.  But in mid-1946, the title was renamed All Teen Comics, turning into a sequence that featured among the writer’s rising line of youth humor stars like Patsy Walker.  After a fast title change to easily Teen Comics, the title lasted three years in this way, remodeling once more in 1950 into science fiction/horror title Journey into Unknown Worlds.  It’s a little bit extra sophisticated than that, however we’ll get to that after we discuss Hedy De Vine.

April 1947, the month that Teen Comics #22, hit newsstands, gives a captivating snapshot into this second in Marvel historical past.  The firm launched just one severe superhero comedian e book title in Marvel Mystery Comics #82 that month.  Everything different Marvel launch for the month was some type of humor title, with the extra exception of Miss America Magazine.  That title was a magazine-format sequence aimed at teenage women, that additionally included some comics.  The journal sequence had launched Patsy Walker and nonetheless included a Miss America comedian characteristic at this time.  Patsy had shortly gotten a title of her personal as nicely, as had each different star of Teen Comics, together with Georgie, Willie, and Margie.  An fascinating look at an underappreciated second of Marvel comedian e book historical past, the best graded copy of Teen Comics #22 Mile High Pedigree (Marvel, 1947) CGC NM 9.4 White pages is up for public sale in the 2023 April 20 Timeless Good Girl Art Comics Featuring Dan DeCarlo Showcase Auction #40221 at Heritage Auctions.

As a comic book e book from the fabled Edgar Church / Mile High pedigree, this copy of Teen Comics #22 is especially noteworthy. The Edgar Church / Mile High comedian e book pedigree is a group of virtually 15,000 comedian books 1937 to 1957 amassed by Denver, Colorado business illustrator Edgar Church.  The assortment, a lot of which has been preserved in unimaginable excessive grade, has turn out to be the stuff of legend because it was found by longtime retailer Chuck Rozanski (also referred to as Bettie Pages) and started to hit the collector market in the late Seventies.  The Church copy of Action Comics #1 is extensively thought-about probably the most beneficial comedian e book on the planet, and the gathering as a complete set the usual for the sale of high-grade Golden Age comedian books for many years.  Likewise, copies of key or in any other case vital comedian books from the Edgar Church pedigree have typically been held in non-public collections, unseen by the market at giant, for years or many years.  Marvel comedian books from the gathering do not hit the general public market fairly often, which makes this Teen Comics #22 Mile High Pedigree (Marvel, 1947) CGC NM 9.4 White pages a very fascinating gem in the 2023 April 20 Timeless Good Girl Art Comics Featuring Dan DeCarlo Showcase Auction #40221 at Heritage Auctions.

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