Okay... so I've developed an obsession of sorts. And I realize this obsession will ultimately see me the loser and not the victor. What exactly is that obsession? I have this insane desire to corner the market on a CGC comic book. Why? I don't know.

Maybe I am the descendant of some wayward despot... and all these long years... I've been suppressing the urges of my tyrannical ancestry. My heart and soul constantly beckon me to "RULE THE WORLD!" But, conversly, the genetic sh*t that is also fused and coupled into my DNA won't have any of it! My mind hypocritically decries... "That goal is way too lofty and tiring, and I'm just too f*cking lazy to see it through!" So, thankfully, for the sake of the free world... there is no way in hell it's ever going to happen.

However, I've reasoned, if I could rule and lord over something... maybe it should be something attainable... a bit more down to earth. So I reckon the Comic Book Market may just be the place I could satiate and placate these sociopathic urges.

And I don't know if you recall... but I've attempted this a few times. Firstly, with Swamp Thing's Volume 1, Number 1, and secondly with San Diego Comics Con #2 (first Full Appearance of Hellboy). But there's just way too many of them out there to corner the market.

But I've found another. Yes! So here it is... another comic book I've been diabolically targeting for WORLD CGC DOMINATION! MUH HA! HA! HA! HA!

Back in March, I twice wrote about Spawn 9: that controversial key issue where the first appearance of Angela has made waves since it was announced Gaiman was taking Angela (his litigious co-creation with McFarlane), over to the Marvel Universe, where the lovely servant of God will debut in the Age of Ultron in June, and eventually transition to the Guardians of the Galaxy (and God willing... make a real appearance in a movie: Angela had an all too brief cameo in 1997's Spawn flick).

In one of the two blogs, I also wrote (and actually gloated) about my CGC 9.6 copy of Spawn 9, the Newsstand Variant. At the time I informed the world at large it was one-of-a-kind... in fact the very first of its kind. And for a very brief and shiny moment, it was the only Newsstand Variant graded in the CGC. But prophetically, I also predicted that it would not remain as such for very long. And sadly, my day of reign ended when another debuted: a CGC 9.8.

I remember checking obsessively almost every single day to see if my little 9.6 was the one and only. Then one day my eyes lit up with flames of jealousy and fury... for I had been dethroned! My evil reign over... extinguished like a puff of smoke. A 9.8 had dared to overthrow me!

Bah!

I pushed away the computer and cried foul vengeance to the world.

"There shall be a day of reckoning! I shall return to the throne!"

And sure enough... in a very short time I must say... I have returned to the throne.

So as I write this... your "humble" narrator... yours truly... once again rules the "Magical Kingdom of the Spawn 9 Newsstand Variant in CGC Land".

How? I got very lucky and purchased that 9.8. So, now I own the both of them... the only two Spawn 9 Newsstand Variants to be certified. I own the first and the second.

I don't know why but it feels so freaking good... almost monumental.

As I look to the "other side" there are 329 Direct Editions in the census.

And on my side... just these two beauties. Check out the pics.

Damn the Throne feels good!

SW3D

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