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Jelani's Journal

Just wanted to create a master journal to keep everything all in one place Been on the boards for a few years but just finally decided to create a master journal. My last few journal entries haven't shown up on the boards. Hopefully this works. To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
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ECCC Submittals 2015

4 Coupon books have returned After some consternation about their whereabouts, my 4 collectors society coupon books are safely back home. And with the change from 4 standard books to 150 dollar credit with the coupon, this might be my last submittal for a while. I dropped these books off at ECCC on Mar 27 and they shipped back on Apr 23rd. Had a tough time figuring out which 4 to choose. Most of the no brainers have already been slabbed ?and ?now i?'m? just trying to choose between 40 or 50 si
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Have you seen my comics?

4 comics traveling west, missing possibly dead... Well I was holding on to my post about the 4 comics I dropped off with CGC at ECCC this year until they returned graded. I was even showing remarkable willpower in not checking the grades in advance online. They departed CGC on Thursday the 23rd, they were last seen by the USPS on Friday the 24th departing Tampa for Seattle supposedly to arrive on Saturday the 25th... no updates on the USPS tracking site since then. I waited the required 5 days
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Dumb Luck

For once I ended up with the variant I was always more focused on the super hero comics and usually felt out of my depth whenever I took a gamble on one of the weirder line of comics. Sometimes I think I only bought the Vertigo books to look more cool to the older guys that ran the comics store. A few years before I started regularly buying Sandman, Hellblazer and Preacher, I was given a promotional copy of Sandman #8 on one of my many trips to my LCS. I'm pretty sure I never did get around to
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Alone at Last

Why did it take so long to get my own book? It's weird to me to look back now and think that when I was a kid Iron Man and Captain America were kinda second banana heroes. Spider-Man and the X-universe seemed much more popular. What a difference a couple of half-billion dollar movies makes. Having said that Tales of Suspense #39 was still out of my price range and I was never a huge enough Iron Man fan to save up for one. I did eventually stumble onto this pretty nice copy of Iron Man #1 for a
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The New Team

A Giant Size introduction After attending ECCC last year I really wanted to start reading comics again but with most of mine in storage and not really wanting to handle my best books, I finally broke down and bought a few omnibuses and some digital comics. One of the omnibuses that I bought was the Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1. Containing the first issues of the new X-Men team written by Claremont and drawn by Cockrum and later Byrne. These were my favorite comics as a kid. I think I started reading X
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New comics back from CGC

Coupon submissions at ECCC have returned So if it wasn't obvious from the teaser I submitted 4 comics with a collectors society coupon at ECCC. Last year I was rushed trying to get my books together to submit and never bothered to make my own grade estimate for comparison. This time I did. As with many of my older comics I picked this one up on a road trip with my dad one summer during high school. Way back when before the days of the internet I used my handy Overstreet guide to find comic sto
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Worth the wait

ASM 298 and 300 If you read my first journal you may remember that I took 10 books from my collection to ECCC on March 3rd to be CGC'd. This was my first experience with professional grading. They were submitted in different tiers and have been trickling back ever since. It has been an interesting and thrilling experience hoping for the best and sometimes settling for the worst. Of course there was that mysterious bubble that showed up on back side of all the CGC cases(more on this later).
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Inventory

What I did while waiting for my books to come back The last 3 books I submitted to CGC are still sitting at verified. I was a bit of a bonehead for not paying the extra 10 bucks to fast track them. But, what's done is done. So while I waited I decided to re-catalog all of my books into a software program. The last time I did this, there wasn't a very good comic book specific option for use on a Mac, but now there is. So I bought Collectorz.com's software. 10 years ago when I put my comics in s
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Our Army At War #83 If you've read some of my earlier journals you may remember that my dad and I traveled around the US and along the way I got a chance to buy some comics. My dad was never much for fantasy so he didn't really enjoy the super-powered characters, but he did enjoy reading the war comics so I used to scavenge around in the discount boxes looking for them. The DC books were his preference. He enjoyed Gravedigger in "Men at War", The Unknown Soldier and especially Sgt Rock. When I
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Regrets

X-Men #1 I'm sure every collector out there has had the chance to buy something they passed on or bought something they shouldn't have. Here's my biggest comic book regret, besides say not cornering the market on Hulk 181s in 1984. When I was a kid I was obsessed with the X-Men, being a complete nerd I even had a crush on Kitty Pryde. The only title I ever really set completion goals for was X-Men. In '84 when I started collecting Uncanny was in the 180s. At first I set modest goals to start
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Mr. Versatile

The hardest working man in the Marvel universe He's been a soldier, a spy, an agency chief, an LMD, a Hasslehoff and Samuel L Jackson. Has anyone in Marvel been used in so many different ways? Especially a guy mostly without super-powers. When I was a kid my brother turned me on to the amazing Jim Steranko drawn Nick Fury Agent of Shield books and to this day those remain some of my all time favorites. As an 11 year old however it took some convincing that at practically the same time he was a
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The Best There Is At What He Does

Incredible Hulk #181 When I was in college, I had one of Sam Kieth's hairy, rippling muscled, torn costume, crouching Wolverine posters over the bed in my dorm. May have had something to do with the dearth of dates I had as well. But, It was amazing how different he looked in the '90s from October '74 in Incredible Hulk #180. Wolverine has had many looks and many names through the years and I was a fan of them all. I loved Trimpe's yellow and blue costume, the bone claw era, Frank Miller's sid
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The Gift

Sometimes you just get lucky My brother is 13 years older than me and was a bit of a comic-book collector in the late 60's and early 70's but by the 80's most of his books had been sold to buy text books and other less fun things. Rumor has it there was an Amazing Fantasy #15 at one time, but that was sold before I was born. Anyhow, I didn't really know what to expect when on the occasion of my Bar Mitzvah in January of '86, he offered me a gift of a stack of books that were kept un-bagged in
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Avengers Assemble

A VG/F first silver appearance of Cap If you have been following my journal since the beginning you might recall that I used to visit stores around the country during my summers off from school. Thanks to my dad's unwillingness to fly we drove cross country several times and I would try to remain current on my new titles and look for interesting classics. I think the summer of 1990 we drove through Denver and stopped at a store I can't remember anymore that I found in the back of my trusty Ove
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Greetings

Long time collector but new to the collector's society Hi, I started collecting comics in 1984 when I was 11 and collected actively and some might say heavily until 1998. I stopped collecting mostly due to an unstable living situation in a new city and the higher prices and rapid multiplication of titles. I have kept my collection intact since then and have no immediate plans to sell it. It's not very focused and made up mostly of runs starting from 1984 to 1998 of my favorite books plus my
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What is that weird bubble?

Daredevil #1 has returned I filled out all the paperwork on-line for CGC and took my 10 books in for the last day of ECCC. Not being sure what to expect from the CGC receiving crew I headed there first and was able to hand off my books in about 10 minutes while all the I's were dotted and T's crossed. My copy of Daredevil #1 was the highest price paid of any book in my collection a present from dad in 1989 for a great year of grades in high school. It was bought in a now defunct San Francisc
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