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Rex Keith, Ranger Page Original Art Group (undated)
Auction: 05/20/2010 - 5/22/2010
Lot: 92032
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Edgar Church AUCTION RECORDS
1888 Connecticut - 1978. 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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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,... Read full biography
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 wa... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeEdgar Church Cream of Wheat Ad Illustration Original Art (1916)
Edgar Church Auction: 05/13/2016 - 5/14/2016Lot: 93440Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeEdgar Church Rex Keith and the Call for Help Complete 5-Page Story Unpublished Original Art (Ideal Art Service, 1930s)
Edgar Church Auction: 06/22/2023 - 6/23/2023Lot: 95117Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneePut Your Shoulder to the Wheel and Help World War II Era Illustration Original Art
Edgar Church Auction: 11/21/2013 - 11/22/2013Lot: 92084Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeForest Landscape Illustration Original Art (1919).
Edgar Church Auction: 11/15/2011 - 11/17/2011Lot: 93006Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assignee"Edgar Church United Fashion Shows Promotional Poster Illustration Original Art (Denver Retail Association, 1914).
Edgar Church Auction: 02/19/2015 - 2/21/2015Lot: 93072Subscribe or get free alerts
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