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: Alex Ross & Brian Bolland...Later I may even ask for a Brian Bolland DC cover set: Animal Man, Flash, Wonder Woman, and Gotham Knights are the big sets where he did work - but also an issue of Jonah Hex, the Zatanna one-shot: Everyday Magic, and the variant covers for the current (but sadly ending) Zatanna regular series (issues 1-6).

That having been said - I didn't send any Bolland's this time - but I did send a Ross, and I did accidently send the Frank Miller covered All-Star Batman & Robin #5 (variant).

Yeah, accidently - I had originally selected 7 books to send, but when I examined them in the art studio (best light in the house) I decided that a spine stress on the All-Star B&R and a bad corner an another book would prevent them from grading at 9.6 or better and I deleted them from my order and set them aside - or at least I thought I did; somehow I set the All-Star aside in the same pile as the books I intended to (and did) ship. So I got a call from CGC: there's a discrepancy in your order form and we won't do anything with your books until you call us...I cleared this up fast enough on the phone and the book was added to my invoice - I guess it was meant to be.

Oh, yeah - the books:

JSA #1 - just becuase

JSA #73 - Alex Ross cover - because I love portraits, I paint portraits, and I think Alex's portraits rock...

JLA - #7 - working on this set - just because I like it.

Justice League of America (2006) - 3 - working on this set too (for some reason I don't own the variant cover to issue 3)

Justice League of America (2006) - 4 - variant

All-Star Batman & Robin - 5 - variant - because I am engaged by Frank Miller's compositions (sometimes - this one works for me, other's don't)

Next up? The black covers: Justice League of America #0; JLA #8; Gotham Knights #18 (best Aquaman cover ever); JSA #74 (more Alex Ross)...I haven't even shipped these out yet - but I will soon...

Till then - Happy Hunting:

Lee K