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Grades, grades, and grades

Yay! My modern submission is graded... All 9.8 - all white pages... So I've been trying to send in a small submission as regularly as I can - I know, I know - not the cheapest on shipping, but I can set aside a small amount of money easier than doing a big submission. I save the big ones for Emerald City CC. Also, I've been sending off the odd modern books - usually Justice League books, but I took time to go through my collection and pull out the covers by my two favotire cover artists:
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T minus 2 days and counting

judging starts in 48 hours... Well, I had really hoped that one more submission would be graded and available to add to my sets before grading started, but it isn't going to happen. The modern books would have been enough to push me into 1st in one more set (where the competition is weak), but - well, it can wait till next year. Best of luck to all of you with your sets. and Happy hunting; Lee K
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Modern Turn Around Time

Does anyone know... What the actual modern turn around time is right now? I've been Verified for weeks now with no change in status. I think today is business day 20 - but I don't always know which cons are 'major'. Let me know... Thanks L
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I should avoid grousing...

because my grades came in overnight They didn't all come back as high as I had hoped; I was looking for five 9.8's, a 9.2-9.4, and a 9.8(+) - I know dreamer, but the book appeared extra-super-fine-nice-minty-mint to me... I ended up with four 9.8's + 9.4, a 9.2 (as expected), and a 9.6 (umm, really?) - The only thing I can guess is the possibility of shipping damage. I packed my next shipment (arrived 5.9.2011) better - so I guess I'll see... Happy Hunting Lee
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Con season is here

or, why I can't get my books graded... Well - because all of you who have books being graded too, clogging up the queue. I guess that's kind of the thing about summer. Pretty much every work week only has four business days for turn around time with convention Fridays not counting - that doesn's sound like much, but it is a 20% reduction in days per week... Add to that all the people who wait till the local convention to submit their comics for grading to save on shipping and you have cre
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Verified

sort of... So...I sent in two issues of JSA, two issues of Justice League of America, one issue of JLA, and one issue of All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder. I have verified two issues of Justice Society of America, three issues of Justice League of America, and an issue of Batman & Robin. Will quality control catch this and correct it before everything is graded and shipped? or should I contact CGC? Anyone else have this issue before? Lee   And the response from CGC is:
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Perfect Weekend

For a comic collecter and fan... I cannot imagine a weekend more fine than the one I just experienced. Friday - my books went from received to verified, and a second package was sent to CGC via USPS. Friday - I was the successful bidder at auction for Batman 181, 9.2, OW, for my go-go check collection, meeting one of my goals for 2011. Friday - after work I drove down to Mike Grell's place and spent all day Saturday and Sunday morning hanging out there while he worked on the new Denny O'Neil
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The Waiting Game

or "RECEIVED, day 6..." Let's be honest, I couldn't live further from Sarasota, FL, and still live in the continental US. And my budget isn't what I would like it to be for buying books and slabbing books - but I do have some moderns from my reading enjoyment of the various Justice League titles I would like to have slabbed. It's just, well, the status titles: Received, Verified, Scheduled for Grading - I know that these terms are defined, but what do they mean to me, from a practical standp
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Look out Tnerb - here I come

That's right - I have a marvel book in my registry OK - so I have some New Mutants lying around from when I closed my LCS so I sent in issue 87 just to see, under the premise that I haven't looked at them since I put them away. Now, since I am not in the business of selling anymore - I guess I am commited to having this one lonely marvel set as I slowly send in the odd Liefeld book from time to time. Happy Hunting Lee K
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It was Christmas Day at the Lee K household

cause my EMCC submission no. 1 came in. and like every Christmas Day there were surprises, disappointments, and excitement all around. Let me preface this entry with the following: all of these books are from my personal collection, all books I bought off the rack at my LCS. Books from 1984 through 1988 are from my time in the Air Force and were purchased at the LCS in Riverside Ca; books that are older than that are from when I was in high school, and books from 89 through 91 are from when
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Emerald City CC submission no. 2 of 2

Now at scheduled for grading status... Not that either package is really exciting. Submission 1 has some modern variant covers from my collection for my buddy's birthday, a modern wonder woman for my wife, some New Muties from when I closed my own LCS that I thought might grade 9.8/WHITE for some collector I know...and a bunch of Justice Leage of Americas, Justice Leagues, and JLAs that I bought off the rack in the 80's & 90's that I thought would grade out 9.2 and better, oh - and Zatann
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Graded

So one of my two Emerald City CC submissions is now "graded" status... All I have to do is keep from looking at it for 10 days or so until it shows up at my door. ... I can do it... Maybe Lee K
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Milestones lost...

The go-go check collection moves backward... So I've been working on the go-go check collection for some years now, and when I first put the list together I listed the superhero books and then I researched for the other titles I needed to make the collection complete; sometimes I missed an issue of one end of a run or the other but by the end of the first year I was fairly certain that I had all the titles accounted for. Except...well a nagging feeling in the back of my mind that I was missin
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Milestones...

The go-go check collection moves forward So Emerald City ComicCon provided me with a lot of 'big fat nothing' for the go-go check collection; although I did have fun on Sunday and I dropped some books at the CGC booth for grading - but I only saw three go-go check slabs, all for Justice League of America books that I already have (albeit higher grade - all 9.6) and absolutely no raw go-go checks that I would bother to have slabbed - mostly reader grade stuff, call it 2.5 to 4.5. I did, on the
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Back from Hiatus

well a couple days in the hospital and a few more to recover away from the keyboard... And all of a sudden I have to tackle what I am taking to Emerald City CC this weekend for grading and what I am taking for signature series grading (hopefully). I think I have whittled it down to some Justice League of Americas, some New Mutants, some new Zatanna variants, two Weird Wars, some JLAs, and a WW for my wife, and a couple of All-Star Batman & Robins (all moderns). And I hope to signature se
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Going visiting...

with an old friend. So I'm running off to the coast for the weekend with my wife, but I'm thinking on the way back I'll swing by Mike Grell's house and see what he's up to since he was named Editor over at Ardden Comics. As much as I hate to admit it, I don't think I have anything for him to autograph, he's signed it all: Batman Family, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Iron Man, Warlord, I even found an old Warlord action figure (he-man style) still on it's card and asked him to sign the card fo
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Falling in love again...

for the first time - sort of When I was young, I read comic books: Justice League, Avengers, Green Lantern, ASM, GI Combat, Weird War Tales. Since money was tight and my income/allowance was erratic at best I rarely was able to purchase runs of consecutive issues and I found myself more interested in books written in episodes with limited or no knowledge needed of what went before needed to understand the story. Weird War became a real favorite. When I wasn't reading comics, I read books -
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Hey you - write a journal

Join the family of regular journal writers. It's easy and as a family of readers, we're non-judgmental. Write what you know (comics) or write what you love (more comics), it doesn't matter. An easy first journal could be as simple as sharing your collecting goals for 2011 - is there a target book for this year or a collecting milestone you hope to reach? In 2011 I hope to add one of the following 3 books to my go-go check collection: Batman 181, Detective 359, or Superman's Girlfriend Loi
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Dust, Light, and Oxidation Shadows

Because I was asked to follow up on my journal of 1/18... OK - so I wrote a long dissertation on this subject earlier; and then I bumped the back button on my mouse and lost it all, so I guess I'll be brief. Comics stacked one on top of another and left to be stored for years or even months undisturbed left us with some really nice comics preserved from the 40s, 50s, and 60s - beautiful, flat copies with great color gloss and flat spines. Even non-pedigree collections staored this way proba
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Why the registry?

2,123 registry users with point totals ranging from 2,265,493 points to 3 points, and I don't even begin to know how many registry sets... Given that I would have to multiply my current collection by 100 to find myself in second place in total registry points, and with my limited collecting focus it is unlikely that I will ever be in 1st place in any of my registered sets; why the registry? I possess a competitive nature and I want to be 1st - and I am a completionist (is that a word?) so I
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How we collect, Pt. 2

Staples anyone? It was brought to my attention that I neglected to address staples in my mile-long dissertation last week. And after having it tossed in my face, I have to admit that I don't really look at staples - not as part of a mental checklist, and it doesn't seem to be a deal killer for me. So, I went to my LCS - and pulled through their bin of 60's Charltons thinking about how I look at staples. I look for discoloration; I look for dimples, stress lines and staple related tears; I
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How we collect

OK - we all collect what we love, but how do you select from your myriad of purchasing options? As much as it hurts me to do so, I assume we all have grade ranges and paper quality requirements for our collections, so I don't want to revisit those discussions. Instead I am interested in those things that are important to each of us that aren't really about the grade: Pedigrees, Dust Shadows, Spine Ticks, Rounded Corners, Date Stamps; Handwriting in ink/wax pencil/pencil; Cover Centering; Cove
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Justice League of America

The best superhero team ever... At least I think so; and I thought so as a child and teen as well. There was something about the Justice League Roll Call at the beginning of every issue. Would this issue have Green Arrow and Black Canary? Would the Justice Society visit from Earth-2? Everyone who was anyone in the DC universe could be in any given issue. You want Power Girl, Black Canary, and Princess Projectra - it could happen. You prefer the GA Flash, SA Green Lantern and SA Atom? OK -
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Journal or Chat Board?

Is it better to address the room or to engage the room in conversation? So as of today I have been a chat board member for exactly 2 years, but I have a measly 307 posts the majority of which happened in Silver's 1 to 365 thread in 2009. (Great thread BTW - if you have never been to the chat board it is worth going just to search for and read this thread, but give yourself LOTS of time to get through all the images). When I cruise the chat boards I find myself seriously disinclined to comment
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As 2010 winds down

I find myself considering my acquisitions for the year... and I am happy. I added 25 books to my go-go check collection, 1 I purchased raw and 24 slabbed. 4 @ 8.5 (including the raw book that I had slabbed later); 6 @ 9.0; 10 @ 9.2 (including a Rocky Mountain); and 5 @ 9.4 - I nice haul for a year where I couldn't buy much because I had the expense of a wedding and a honeymoon cruise; which was well worth it. My shopping started with Superman 194 in 9.2 in January and ended with Our Army at
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