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 I owned my own LCS. These books travelled from Seattle to Mississippi to Southern California, back to Seattle and through 4 apartments before settling in the house I own now. They have many, many miles on them.

Until about 2000 - grade wasn't something I thought about when buying a new book from my LCS. The book was new, all the other books were new - they were therefor the same: 'new'. I understand now that 'new' isn't any more a condition than 'nice' is.

My submission can be considered as two different batches - the first of which were all books that I thought could grade out at 9.8 or better - and before you comment, I have submitted only about 100 books during my membership and one of them was a 9.9 - so it does happen and you don't have to be a big dealer for it to happen to you (although it didn't this time). The second part of the submission is all Justice League of America books that I anticipated would grade out about 9.2.

To avoid being redundant all of the books have WHITE pages.

For my freaky Batman friend I had three variant cover books slabbed so that I might give them to him as gifts for his birthday: Birds of Prey 1 (9.8); Red Robin 1 (9.8); and Batman 700 (9.6).

For me (& my wife) I got:

Zatanna: Everyday Magic (9.8)

Wonder Woman 181 from 2002 (9.6) for my wife

New Mutants 70 (9.6) - I thought this was the best looking book in the submission. *shrug*

New Mutants 81 (9.8)

New Mutants 82 (9.4) (?!?)

New Mutants 98 (9.8)

JLA 1 - (9.6)

JLA 2 - (9.8)

JLA 3 - (9.6)

JLA 4 - (9.8)

Justice League 3 - Superman logo variant (9.4)

And finally mu Justice League of Americas - the books with thousands of miles on them...

Justice League of America 200 - (9.0) - I don;t know about this; it's a beautiful 72 page square bound book and it looks like the best bet for a 9.6 in the bunch. That's why I don't work for CGC

justice League of America 212 - (9.6)

Justice League of America 213 - (9.6)

Justice League of America 217 - (9.4)

Justice League of America 249 - (8.0) what? was I eating pizza?

Justice League of America 253 - (9.6)

Justice League of America 254 - (9.2)

Justice League of America 256 - (9.4)

Justice League of America 259 - (8.0) pizza again - this happened a lot in the 80's

I am happy with my returns - and surprised, books that I anticipated would grade at the bottom of the range I was looking at graded at the top; and vise versa.

On a happy side note - my EMCC submission no. 2 was graded and I peeked.

All WHITE pages - all Cho Signature series:

Shanna #1 - 9.8

Shanna #2 - 9.8

Shanna #3 - 9.8

Shanna #4 - 9.8

Shanna #5 - 9.6

Shanna #6 - 9.8

Shanna #7 - 9.8

I had thought that they would all be 9.8's but there isn't any way for me to control how Frank handles the books while signing - so I guess one at 9.6 isn't the end of my world.

Happy Hunting.

Lee