A SHOUT OUT TO Surfer99!!!

Ever since joining the registry, I have met one member after another who are wonderful, helpful, generous, kind and encouraging. It seems like the vast majority of the collectors here fit into one or more of these adjectives.

While there are a number of you out there who follow or interact with me on this site, I have had the distinct pleasure of personally dealing with Tnerb and Ronnylama with awesome and unforgettable results. Interactions which I will appreciate and cherish for the rest of my life.

Now Surfer99 is doing me a GI-NORMOUS favor. I wanted to be able to go to the Phoenix Comic Con this year but simply could not make it happen. There were a few people I wanted signatures from but alas, it was not meant to be.

Desert Winds is not attending the Con so I had no other options. That is until Surfer99 informed me that he would be attending the first day of the show and was getting some things signed by Peter David, who happens to be one of the people I also wanted an issue signed from.

I asked if he would be at all interested in helping me out with the one issue and maybe some other issues while he was there and he generously said yes!! He told me to keep it to Peter David and one other person, which I completely understood.

After all, I did not want him spending all his time at the show for the one day he was there doing nothing but getting things signed for me. Where is the fun in that?

So after thinking long and hard about it, I decided to have some issues signed by Bret Blevins as the second person Surfer99 would do for me, since Bret did art for a large number of The New Mutants. I had 20 issues I was considering to send , but ultimately whittled it down to just 10.

I didn't want to overload the poor guy since he was doing me such a big favor. Actually, it works out since he also has an issue that he can have Bret sign for his collection as well!

So here are the issues that Surfer99 is so kindly having signed for me...

New Mutants Annual #6 Peter David

NM #59 Bret Blevins

NM #60 Blevins

NM #61 Blevins

NM #70 Blevins

NM #71 Blevins

NM #72 Blevins

NM #73 Blevins

NM #79 Blevins

NM #82 Blevins

Three of them are the inferno issues and three of them are Fall of the Mutants issues. I cracked all ten of them open, prepped them for signings, and very carefully packed them up and sent them off to Surfer99. He will be at the show tomorrow and I cannot wait to hear how everything goes for both of us!

THANK YOU SURFER99!!! What a guy!

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