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This is the quickest I have ever had an invoice change from "Verified" to "Scheduled for Grading". My other two invoices won't even be close to changing until the end of next month. I am OK with that but I am slightly exhilarated that I will soon know what my double signed ASM #129 will be graded and of course I'll tell you about it.

I have two others that were signed by Stan Lee months ago but those were send in by Keegan with "Comics to Astonish". I handed over a copy of Daredevil #7 (1St Red Costume) and X-Men #10 (1ST Ka-Zar). I had purchased a few graded books from him on previous occasions so handing them to him at Wizard World Philadelphia seemed the wisest of choices. I didn't have the money at the time and he allowed me to pay it off at a later date. There was another reason I used Keegan's services. He thought pressing the books would be beneficial to the grade.

I am still on the fence on how I feel about pressing and even wonder how many of my books I purchased were pressed? Part of me "cries" restoration, the other part remembers how crisp old bills became after spending time in between the pages of an encyclopedia. This is something I plan on talking to him a bit more, maybe I just need to be convinced.

Keegan did give me a good example using the very book I am hoping will retain its grade. Of course when I first handed it over to CGC at (what else) a Wizard World I swore it would be a 9.4. I was wrong, it was a 9.2. It became a 9.4 after I sent it in for a Stan Lee signing that CGC hosted. How? Why? ( I did write about this previously as you can tell by my teaser entry). He explained to me that the book was pressed while in the slab pressing the spine flat. Is this true? or hypothesized? Either way once I get the books back (ASM #129) I plan on taking pictures and posting it up on the site. Here's hoping it returns a 9.4 and praying it is a 9.6.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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