Turnaround time for Modern non-Fast Track: ~50 business days

Last July I sent in two invoices for slabbing, one with my four Collector's Society coupon books and one with fifteen Moderns. My four Collector's Society have already been revealed in my first journal: http://comics.www.collectors-society.com/JournalDetail.aspx?JournalEntryID=14286

Now I see my Moderns are on the way. I checked the tracking number, and they have already left Florida to be delivered tomorrow by UPS.

I'm more nervous than usual about this order, because it contains some that I suspect did not grade especially well. Among others, I submitted several small-press books from Antarctic Press. There are four issues of Gold Digger and two issues of Mangazine, all of which I believe to be the first of their kinds graded. Unfortunately, not all of them were pristine copies, but with print runs around 1500 copies how can you be picky? I hope they are all at least 8.0s. There is also an Eclipse Extra 16 featuring Alan Moore's Miracleman, and a Whitman copy of Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom 31. The rest are fairly mundane Marvel and DC books. I have not checked the grades online to maximize the anticipation. I'd hate to be disappointed by a grade before I even had the book back in hand. I will record the unboxing event on my cellphone and post it to my Dropbox account, keep watching this space for updates!

Until then, enjoy this photo-collage of some of my all-time favorite issues and covers, completely unrelated to this journal entry!

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