A treasure trove of superhero treats was recently found in Ohio.
From a piece in Bleeding Cool...
One of the great debates in vintage comic book collecting circles is over just how many comics from the 1930s-1960s are left out there in the world, undiscovered. I read one theory recently — actually a pretty compelling one — which postulated, for example, that all the copies of Action Comics #1 that still exist will have been found and surfaced in the collecting community in some manner by 2050, and that copies which have not been found by that point are for practical purposes gone forever.
But with the American comic book industry getting its start in the mid-1930s, the original generation of American comic book readers are now in their 80s at youngest, and passing on. The math does dictate that the discovery of new Original Owner collections (so called because the collections were bought off the newsstand by the original reader and kept intact as a collection all these years, and not pieced together second hand by a later collector) will inevitably slow down.
And yet, every time I think we’ve seen the last interesting find, another one surfaces. Today’s example comes to us by way of retailer Greg Bartholomew of All American Comics and Cards, with stores in Warren and Boardman, Ohio.
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