Please give me all of your thoughts on this!

Ok, it has been put forth a couple of times from some of you guys about the validity of graded issues with the Golden State Collection sticker on it.

Here is the collection as described by WWcomics.

The Golden State collection was amassed by a meticulous collector residing in the San Francisco area who carefully filed away his newsstand copies each month. The core of the collection ranged from the early 60s to present, but also included a very impressive run of Golden Age as well.

The owner finally decided to part with the Golden and Silver Age portions of his collection in the early 90s, and much of it entered the market through a national dealer. Unfortunately much of the Silver Age was never documented as the Golden State collection, although one can still find random CGC graded issues floating about. The average grade of this period was 9.4 to 9.6, truly amazing books.

Fast forward to 2008 The original owner has finally decided to sell the remainder of his collection, which consists of late Bronze Age to present. Just about every single title and issue from Marvel, DC and most 80s independents are there, with the vast majority grading CGC 9.8. Each book will display a Golden State sticker on the CGC case.

Now while this is NOT a CGC recognized pedigree, that is mainly because they were never submitted to CGC for Pedigree eligibility in the first place. Even without the CGC recognition, this is a HUGE collection containing MANY single highest graded copies as well as top copies that dont have pedigree copies of any kind!

Having Matt Nelson be the person to middleman the process of acquiring, submitting and selling the issues also brings knowledge and respectability to the Golden State Collection.

Now personally, I love having the GS sticker on the case of these Bronze and Copper Age beauties! I think it adds another layer of personality and individualism to the copy I own. Something that sets it slightly apart from other copies out there, if there are any other copies out there. It also looks beautiful over an SS yellow label!!

I believe I have wound up being the first collector to replace Golden State stickers on a slab after signing and regrading. To me they look gorgeous! If you have not read my last journal, go check out my Longshot #6 pictured in it.

I am curious what everybody else thinks about these Bronze and Copper Age beauties having the GS sticker applied to them. So lets discuss it folks. What is your take?

Below is a current pic of my copy of New Mutants #76 that I bought as a GS issue from WWcomics and then cracked open, had signed at Megacon, regraded and then restickered thanks to Stephen at WWcomics!

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