or Why am I scared to look?

It is day 15 for the next invoice I have at CGC. I turned this over at the NYCC after getting signatures from Herb Trimpe and Chris Claremont. The two issues in question are Incredible Hulk #109 and X-Men #109 before they went and became Uncanny. Once again I decided to jump right to the journals and write about it. I am not so much afraid of the grades but part of me knows that if they don't attain the grade I hoped for, I might be slightly upset.

I purchased both of these to get pressed and then send in with my free coupon but decided that I would like to get signatures on these. Knowing that I was going to New York I couldn't pass on the chance. I plan on going to the ECCC which is one of the reasons I am selling things on eBay and one of the books I hope to bring there if I get it back in time is ASM #129. I would love to add Gerry Conway on there as a third signature, if not I might just bring my ASM #127 since I still have that here...OK, let's go look...

OK...Bad News first... The pages are not white. I still don't know how I feel about it because since they are slabbed I'll never open them to look. A side note by the way I don't know if they were graded on time because of being in the standard tier or because they were signature series. Of course it might be a combination of both. I have one more invoice out, not including what went through other sources, but that last invoice is a modern tier without the fast track. After fifteen business days it is marked verified.

I picked up the Incredible Hulk #109 because I was told after a pressing it should attain a 9.6. CGC graded the book without pressing at a 9.4 Off White pages. However, that is not the reason why I jumped from my seat and clapped my hands (once) in over joyous excitement and exclaimed F#...Yea.

The other book I purchased with also the hopes of a 9.6 after pressing was graded by CGC a 9.8 Off-white pages. I had to go double check. I am simply floored and excited. You see the book I wanted, really wanted was the Incredible Hulk #109. World Wide has the book but I can't afford it so I decided to try my luck. I plan on having it pressed but the X-Men #109 I bought on a lark, a last minute purchase to get a discount on both the books. My thought was to sell it before I even had it graded in the hopes of what just happened and then I can put it towards a higher graded. Of course it surpassed my dreams.

15 days my standard invoice was completed; now let's see how many more days until it is shipped. I'll let you know.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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