Or Maybe that is why it was so cheap.

More times than not if I win an auction it is either way too much, or something on eBay. I have been trying to get a signature series together for my New Mutants collection. I believe I have about 34 out of the 107 I have signed by an artist or write. With the exception of issue #54 I make sure that I have a second copy of the book I want to have signed or that there is a second copy available. Issue #17 was one of the hardest books to get. In fact the copy that I have was given to me by a dear friend who doesn't think that she is dear to me. The truth is I'd be lost without her in my life.

There is no way I would want to chance getting that signed and having the book drop in grade. I don't mind it dropping because of who it is from (she also purchased my Daredevil #380 too, raw, it sucks she can pick a better candidate for a 9.8 than me, and she hates comic books, but throw a Coach bag on the floor and she is all over that). I figured I would purchase another book as back up and found one on an auction site. I placed a bid knowing that I can always stop because it wasn't a book I needed, just one I wanted. Of course I didn't read the full description, which is how I buy most of my White to Off-White copies. I saw the cover and saw 9.8 and placed my bid. I won for a damn good price.

The book arrived at my father's yesterday evening. I picked it up tonight with a larger package that was delivered there of a scanner (which I hope to hook up tonight) and started to open the box on the street sitting in my car...when a parking authority started to look at my car...I left. Do you know how much a ticket is in Philadelphia? Anyway I didn't open the rest of it while I was driving. Nor, did I look at the cover while I was driving, nor did I question who the hell Zeb Wells is? Chris Claremont wrote #17 and the cover that I knew since I was twelve was not by Dave Wilkins.

As I didn't look closer at the cover while I was driving the date under the Bold New Mutants #17 was 11/10. Someone had the CGC offices mistakenly placed a volume 1 issue 17 under a Volume 3 issue 17 column. I am sure CGC would fix this for free especially since it is there mistake...OK not so sure, but I hope they would if I asked, or I can just choose this one to crack and have signed. This is the second mistake I have graded by CGC. We all make mistakes but I hate the small nagging voice saying to me, what if they messed up on the grade too?

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

PS. For all those that played along and read my thirty in thirty or in this case my thirty-five in thirty, I thank you again. It might have been after my first time I did this that someone else wrote a journal stating they woke up and was slightly disappointing I didn't have another waiting for him on December 1st. That was two years ago. It was also because of him that I received two books in my collection, one was a 9.6 and the other was a 9.8, both New Mutants. This round of 30 in 30 is dedicated to you my friend.

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