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Edgar Church

Edgar Church (1888 - 1978) was active/lived in Colorado, Connecticut.  Edgar Church is known for Commercial artist, comic collector.

Edgar Church (November 28, 1888 - 1978), born in Connecticut, was an artist who worked independently and eventually for the telephone company in Colorado illustrating commercial telephone book advertisements, precursors to Yellow Page ads.

Church kept thousands of miscellaneous periodicals in his Colorado home to use as references for his art. From these magazines he would clip images which he would store in one of hundreds of labeled boxes. The collection of comic books that he amassed, later known as the "Edgar Church collection" or the "Mile High collection", is the most famous and valuable comic book collection known to surface in the history of comic book collecting. The collection consisted of between 18,000 and 22,000 comic books, most of them in high quality grades, and was discovered and bought in 1977 by Chuck Rozanski of Mile High Comics.

About 99% of it was later sold by him to various collectors. The collection is famed for holding the highest quality c   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2063 characters.]  Artist bio

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