Pacific Coast

The Pacific Coast pedigree is arguably the single greatest Silver Age collection ever found. The breadth of the collection spans from 1962 into the 1970’s, and include near full runs from that time period of Marvel, DC, Gold Key, Warren Magazines and Mad Magazines—totaling more then 7,000 books. The collection is famed for its ultra high grade structural quality with many of the books grading in the 9.4 (NM) to 9.8 (NM/MT) range, including the keys. The page quality tends to be “off-white to white” for the earlier books (as those books were at the bottom of the stacks), and “off-white” for the later books (as they were at the top of the stacks).

Some examples from this collection  include what is touted as the greatest run of Tales of Suspense in the world, with the #39 graded by CGC at a 9.6 (NM+). Others included two copies of X-men #1 (CGC graded at a 9.6 and 9.8), X-men #2 (CGC graded at a 9.8), X-men #3 (CGC graded at a 9.8), Amazing Spider-man #1 (CGC graded at an 8.5), Amazing Spider-man #2 (CGC graded at a 9.2), Amazing Spider-man #3 (CGC graded at a 9.4), Amazing Spider-man #4 (CGC graded at a 9.4), Amazing Spider-man #5 (CGC graded at a 9.6), Amazing Spider-man #6 (CGC graded at a 9.8), Amazing Spider-man #8 (CGC graded at a 9.8), Avengers #1-5 (all CGC grade at a 9.6), Avengers #6 (CGC graded at a 9.8) and Star Trek #1 (CGC graded at a 9.6). Most of the Marvel runs are considered to be the best in known existence, with some issues being second only behind the Curator pedigree copies.

The Pacific Coast collection first surfaced in 1999, when it was founded by Robert Roter of Pacific Comics Exchange. Before this however some of the books were sold by the original owner through eBay. The books from this collection were kept in such pristine condition due to the way in which they were stored by the owner—just as with the Mile High books, books from this collection were stored in 6-foot stacks. This is what gives the Pacific Coast books the amazing structure they have, but also giving them oil transfer stains and not always “white” page quality.