Edgar Church Archives

The publisher which had until then been called MLJ was renamed Archie Comics in 1946.  In the meantime, DC Comics introduced the teen humor character Buzzy in All Funny Comics #1 in 1943.  Buzzy got his own series the next year, which is considered DC's first teen humor title.  The series lasted for 77 issues[...]

The Edgar Church / Mile High comic book pedigree is a collection of almost 15,000 comic books 1937 to 1957 amassed by Denver, Colorado commercial illustrator Edgar Church.  The collection, much of which has been preserved in incredible high grade, has become the stuff of legend since it was discovered by longtime retailer Chuck Rozanski[...]

Heritage Auction has the first catalog for Mile High Comics' Edgar Church Collection up for auction itself and currently at $125, part of today's Animation & Art Weekly Online Auction 122119 listings with a couple of days to go. The First Mile High Comics Catolog Is Now Itself Being Auctioned It's a copy that was originally stapled inside The[...]

18,000 comics from the late 1930s to the early 1950s — the earliest days of American comic books — in unimaginably high-grade condition.  The collection is so important that researchers have spent considerable effort in unearthing the history behind the collection and the man who assembled it: Edgar Church Because Church himself was a commercial[...]

Edgar Church — of the famous Edgar Church Collection of comics — was an excellent commercial artist Creating countless print ads for a number of companies, Church would look to other forms of media for inspiration in his drawings Comics were obviously a big part of that, and we have gone into his game-changing collection[...]