Or you would think I would leave well enough alone...

The air shimmered with electricity, my hand wavered, paused; then continued on. The blade slid through the plastic as I wondered if I did the right thing. My X-Men 141and 142 were bagged and boarded next to Lee K's X-Men issue 140. I was finishing the preparations for a Masters signing courtesy of NYComics.

My last and final submission was one if my favorite comic books to have ever read: New Mutants Special Edition #1. I never cracked a slab on a double sized book and the extra flaps holding the book fast gave me extra pause. I was nervous, just as nervous as when I cracked my issue 54 for a double signature since there were no back up copies to be had.

My breath echoed in my ears, or was that the pounding of my heart forcing the blood into my cranial cavity. I pondered at the wisdom of cracking a slab that if denied a 9.8 I would have to search again. I had this issue before with my X-Men/Alpha Flight #2. It came back a 9.4. I have since has it pressed and it is coming back a 9.8.

After peeling the hard exterior plastic like a peel of a Banana I was left with the fruits of my labor...a 9.6? Should I have left well enough alone? CGC does make mistakes and this Golden State Copy might have been better off encapsulated and never touched, but if I can chance a 9.6 copy of ASM #129 why can't I roll the dice again?

On another note, my ASM #129 should be in my hands this week, or at the very least at my parents place. I have another invoice that had has three books I cracked, all coming back in a 9.8 SS, the other two are an 8.0 and a 9.6. Then there was my experiment with Matt Nelson, a journal for another time.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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