Or, a Picture will tell me exactly what to buy...

I am trying to put a few sets together. For the most part I know what I need, but there are a few select entries I have no idea what they are. I wonder if many of you feel the same. Some of these issue slots were only created because we asked for them. That means the mistakes made are created into the set we asked for.

There are currently seven separate slots for Thanos Quest. The first two are Thanos Quest #1 & #2. Slot three and Four belong to Thanos Quest #1 & #2 2nd printing. Slot five is the Thanos Quest (2000) reprint. I'm familiar with this cover. It's slots six and seven that concern me. Slot six is written much like slot five as Thanos Quest (2012) and slot seven is reserved for Thanos Quest one shot nn.

If you hit the shop eBay link it only helps if you're looking for anything in that set, not that particular item, so at first what looked like a good idea is only a redundancy, after all we can look on eBay with better skill and accuracy typing the item in ourselves. I am fortunate I have the first four slots filled along with the seventh. Slot five will take time, but slot six...

This is where I get confused. On my CGC universal label it is marked as follows: Thanos Quest one shot #nn. Marvel Comics, 9/12. On the comic book itself on the left hand side is a numeric 1 underneath the word "one-shot". The first place holder has his set obscured, so I can't double check there. I like to see the top spots to help with what I have to search for. To my knowledge the 2012 reprint and the #nn copy are the same covers, but are they actually the same comic book? Did CGC count the same issue twice?

I scoured eBay looking for any variations and only found the same cover with the same UPC codes. If I send the same book in will it get slotted for the sixth slot? Can anyone tell me if they have the book below graded by CGC and placed in Thanos Quest (2012) slot?

So what I'm getting at is this. What if CGC had a more comprehensive database? The census is great. I love being able to check if the books I need are out there. Like New Mutants 58. What if the census could have pictures of what the comic books look like along with how many are graded? This is totally possible, if not a bit time consuming. What say you CGC? Care to update the registry and database to standards of 2014 and not 2004?

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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