Pedigree Comics’ February Grand Auction is underway. It began on the night of Sunday, February 7, 2016 and lasts for ten days until the night of Wednesday, February 17 as a separate event on the Pedigree Comics website, www.PedigreeComics.com. The first lot will end beginning at 9:22 PM ET (80 Page Giant #1 9.6) and the last lot will end at 11:59 PM ET (X-Men #143 9.8). There is no buyer’s premium on any of the lots in the auction and every item has no reserve. Every book is CGC or CBCS graded and the minimum bid is only $100. You can view and bid on all 314 high grade certified comic books right now in the Auction Listing. Just got to www.PedigreeComics.com and click on the Grand Auctions banner.

There are many incredible groups of books, runs as well as individual highest certified comics from many titles in the auction as follows.

Of the high grade Silver and Bronze Age Marvels, many were recently graded by the CGC in mid-December. There are a few choice DC comics from the group as well. The group includes, as Pedigree describes it, a stunning Daredevil #1 9.4.

Highlights are Amazing Fantasy #15 5.0 (CGC Signature Series) and #15 3.0, Amazing Spider-Man #10 9.6, #14 9.4, #33 9.6, #47 9.6, #48 9.6, #50 9.4, #62 9.8, #74 9.6, #75 9.6, #84 9.6, #121 9.4, #122 9.6, #129 9.6, #129 9.4, #135 9.6, and #300 9.8 (CGC Signature Series), Batman #171 9.4, #206 9.8, #227 9.6, #237 9.4, and #251 9.6, Captain America #100 9.4, #109 9.6, #111 9.6, #113 9.8, and #117 9.4, Conan the Barbarian #1 9.6, Daredevil #1 9.4, #2 9.4, #8 9.4, and #9 9.6, Detective Comics #120 8.5, Fantastic Four #12 9.2, #14 9.4, #17 9.2, #25 9.4, #41 9.6, #45 9.2, #48 9.6, #54 9.8, #59 9.8, and #95 9.8, Ghost Rider #1 9.6, Giant-Size X-Men #1 9.8 and #1 9.6, Incredible Hulk #1 5.0, #3 9.2, #102 9.6, #180 9.6, #181 9.4, and #182 9.8, Iron Fist #14 9.8, Iron Man #55 9.6, Journey Into Mystery #89 9.2 and #106 9.6, Marvel Feature #1 9.4, Marvel Premiere #15 9.6, Nick Fury #1 9.8, Showcase #30 9.2, Silver Surfer #1 9.6 (CGC Signature Series), #1 9.4, #4 9.8, #5 9.8, #7 9.8, #9 9.6, #11 9.6, and #15 9.6, Star Wars #1 9.8, Strange Tales #101 9.2 and #135 9.4, Tales of Suspense #41 9.4, #42 9.4, #49 9.4, #53 9.4, #56 9.4, #58 9.4, and #59 9.4, Tales to Astonish #49 9.4, #51 9.6, and #53 9.4, and X-Men #50 9.6 and #58 9.6.

The auction includes a brand new group of high grade Silver and Bronze Age Marvels that was just graded two weeks ago and recently added to the Auction Listing. Many of the books are the highest certified copy and there are many early Silver Age issues and keys to choose from. There are a few choice DCs and other publishers’ titles in the group as well.

Highlights are Amazing Spider-Man #3 9.6, #19 9.6, #25 9.4, #27 9.4, #64 9.8 (highest certified), and #129 9.8 (highest certified), Aquaman #1 9.4, Avengers #3 9.4 (Twin Cities), #63 9.8 (highest certified), #67 9.8 (highest certified), #73 9.8 (Suscha News, highest certified), #96 9.8 (highest certified), and #98 9.8 (highest certified), Cat #1 9.6, Fantastic Four #2 9.0, #10 9.2, #15 9.6, #26 9.6, and #33 9.6, Flash #106 8.5, Flash Comics #73 9.6 (Big Apple, single highest certified), Forbidden Worlds #1 9.4 (River City, single highest certified), Green Lantern #76 9.4, Hawkman #4 9.8 (highest certified), Iron Man #3 9.8 (Suscha News, highest certified), Marvel Feature #1 9.6, Saint #1 9.6 (single highest certified), Sub-Mariner #1 9.8 (highest certified), and Tales of Suspense #37 9.4 (highest certified).

There is an incredible run of Avengers #1-100 that Pedigree Comics’ President and CEO, Doug Schmell, purchased in November that will be the highlight of the auction. There are only a handful or two of scattered issues missing from this run that is more than 95% in 9.4 and higher and more than 50% in 9.6 and 9.8. As a bonus, there are many pedigrees included in the run (almost 50% of the run) plus the early Annuals in 9.4 and 9.6 and a bunch of 9.8 and 9.6 issues in the early #100s. They include Avengers #1 8.5, #2 9.6 (Massachusetts), #3 9.4 (Twin Cities), #4 9.4, #5 9.4, #6 9.8, #7 9.4, #8 9.4, #10 9.4, #12 9.4, #13 9.4, #14 9.4, #15 9.4, #16 9.6, #17 9.6, #18 9.6 (Twin Cities), #19 9.4, #20 9.6 (Northland), #22 9.4, #23 9.4 (CGC Signature Series), #26 9.8 (Twin Cities), #28 9.6, #28 9.4 (Green River), #29 9.4 (Boston), #32 9.6 (Boston), #35 9.6 (Western Penn), #39 9.6 (Green River), #40 9.6 (Western Penn), #41 9.4 (Suscha News), #47 9.8 (Green River), #48 9.6, #49 9.8, #50 9.8, #53 9.8, #54 9.6, #55 9.8, #57 9.6 (Northland), #58 9.6, #59 9.6 (Suscha News), #61 9.6, #63 9.8, #65 9.6, #66 9.6, #67 9.8, #68 9.8 (Pacific Coast), #69 9.6, #70 9.6, #71 9.6, #73 9.8 (Suscha News), #74 9.6, #77 9.6, #78 9.6, #80 9.6 (Suscha News), #86 9.6 (White Mountain), #88 9.6, #90 9.8, #91 9.6 (Suscha News), #92 9.6, #94 9.6, #96 9.8, #98 9.8, and #99 9.6 (Northland), Avengers Annual #1 9.6, #2 9.4 (Pacific Coast), and #4 9.6.

A high grade new X-Men #94-143 run is the final group of books that were added to the Auction Listing this past weekend. It is a fabulous run of all 9.8 and 9.6 new X-Men between issue #94 (a stunning 9.8) and #143 (also a 9.8). There are 32 books to bid on, including X-Men #94 9.8, #95 9.6, #97 9.8, #98 9.6, #99 9.6, #101 9.6, #105 9.6, #106 9.6, #111 9.6, #113 9.8, #115 9.6, #116 9.6, #118 9.6, #119 9.6, #123 9.6, #125 9.6, #129 9.8, #130 9.8, #131 9.8, #134 9.8, #135 9.8, #136 9.6, #137 9.8, #139 9.8, and #141 9.8.

If you have any questions or comments about the consignment process, any of the auction lots in the February auction or about the Grand Auctions in general, contact Mr. Schmell at (561) 422-1120 (office) or (561) 596-9111 (cell) or at DougSchmell@pedigreecomics.com. For any financial related and consignment payment questions, contact Pedigree's CFO, Lisa Shapiro, at LisaJoy@pedigreecomics.com and for any technical related questions or concerns, contact their Web Master at WebDesigner@pedigreecomics.com.