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Ok CCS...I'm imPRESSED to say the very least...nicely done guys!

Wow... So...for the longest time I've had this issue loose in a comic box...I bought it loose off of some dealer on eBay. The issue was in pretty bad shape...crinkled upper corner and bends, dents and creases all over the front AND back covers on this poor thing...the dealer even, once finding out my grading intentions for the book, tried to talk me out of spending the money on the book that I spent(like $40 I think). But I had hope. I had a dream. I had a vision...well...not really...I just
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Wizard World Chicago Pt 1: Back In The Saddle Again

So yeah... After months and months of unemployment and having to sell stacks of my CGC issues off, I finally start my new job next week and can eventually start to get back to a semi-normal life, financially speaking... Strangely enough, this is somewhat good for my comics collecting too, go figure ... So I scraped up enough money to be able to tag along with some friends to the Wizard World Chicago Convention held last weekend in Rosemont. It was a pretty nice show (better than the year b
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Wizard World Chicago Pt 2: The Magik Mandate

So... So every con trip I make I have a sort-of goal of either picking up something relating to the character Magik, getting a sketch cover of her, or a book graded with her on the cover...have done this every time so far... So for Wizard World Chicago I decided to take advantage of On-Site service and get this New Mutants Forever issue done with the absolutely fantastic Arthur Adams cover on it. Sorry about the bad pic...plan on upgrading all of the pics for my issues soon...but I had to
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New (Mutants) Awesomeness

I think out of all the comic runs I've ever collected I think out of all the comic runs I've ever collected, The New Mutants with always be my first love. This little beauty just came in and is signed by Adam Kubert. I have the Dynamic Forces Version of #1 signed by Zeb Wells and I have one of the really low-print sketch versions (I think they were released at SDCC one year way back but fuzzy on the actual number of them out there...heard 100 or 300 but can't seem to find any info on them...)
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More New (Mutants) Awesomeness

This thing simply hurts my eyes looking at it This thing simply hurts my eyes looking at it I swear ...signed by Zeb Wells, it makes a nice companion to the other signed New Mutants #1 I just bought. I also recently bought a loose sketch cover for the latest Uncanny X-Men run featuring Magik and Colossus (my two favorite Marvel characters) which I'll post in a sec...meanwhile, put on some sunglasses and enjoy the visual assault of the Alex Ross Dynamic Forces New Mutants #1 Variant, signed (if
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It's Not Easy Being (Graded) Green...

So here is the conundrum... So here is the conundrum...I bought this loose sketch cover with art done by this guy (artist Fer Galicia) late last year. He's moving out of the country (I recently found out) so there's no way to catch him at a con to have him sign the book for sig series certification...so if I send this book in for grading, it's going to get slapped with a Green Label...and, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure I care about that happening...but then there's this little voice in t
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Campbell Cuties...

What can I say... What can I say...in addition to X-Titles, Buck Rogers, V, Transformers and the rest, I also have a slight addiction to anything drawn by Jim Lee, David Finch, or J. Scott Campbell...this particular pirce being from the last of the aforementioned three... Just recently picked this book up raw at Wizard World Chicago and immediately submitted it for onsite grading. When I saw it I knew I simply had to have it and, when I plunked down my $150.00 on the rare Redhead variant (th
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Finally...

So yeah... So yeah, after having my registry sets up for almost two years now, I finally got around to getting photos (not all of them exactly perfect) of everything in my sets up on the registry site. Better late than never I suppose... Besides, things like this sketch work pictured here should be shown rather than hidden I always say. This particular sketch cover (of my absolute favorite character Magik, all done up in her Darkchild persona) was done by Misty Coats (at C2E2 2011) who is
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Finally...Part Deux

So nice I did it twice... So this sketch was done at C2E2 this year (2012) by Michael Dooney and is of Magik in her updated New Mutants costume (they really need to get her a new look sometime soon now that they have her on the "A" X-Men team...). Sadly this ended up with a 9.6 (Besides my Black Hole #4, the only non-9.8 in my entire collection to date...) but, quite frankly, I like the sketch way too much to part with it. As a result I just kick back and appreciate the art for what it i
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