Here is my second Megacon update!

I left Tallahassee early on Thursday morning to make my way down to Orlando. It is about a 4 hour drive, and it went really fast because I was stoked to see my big brother again and be able to spend some time with him.

After meeting up and having breakfast together, we decided to go around and check out some LCS and see what we could find. The first store we went to was one that he had checked out the day before called Coliseum of Comics. We had perused through the store for a little bit when all of a sudden I looked down under the tables and realized that they had magazines under the tables!!!

As many of you may know, I am a magazine junkie. Whether it's magazine sized comics or Starlogs or any other item that interests me and can fit in a magazine sized CGC slab.

I'm sure I acted a little geeky when I saw them, because Tnerb smiled and shook his head. Haha

Well, among all of these magazines, I found a large group of Marvel Graphic Novels! This is my ultimate, favorite magazine set to collect in CGC form. These have also been skyrocketing in selling price lately in top graded form. So I love to find raw copies I don't have and seeing if any are 9.8 worthy.

Well, I ultimately bought five of them for no more than original cover price! After getting them back to my hotel room later, I determined that three of them were most definitely 9.8s! At first, I didn't think I would submit these at Megacon, because I was under the impression that they were not doing onsite for magazines. But on the second morning of the con, I found out that they were still accepting for onsite grading for a short time and that they WOULD do magazines!

So I turned in two of the 9.8 candidates to be done onsite. The only reason I didn't do the third one was because I plan on having it double signed at Supercon later this year. With these two, I don't see me getting signatures any time soon.

So at the end of the third day of the show, when we received all of our onsite submissions back, I was absolutely thrilled to see that my Graphic Novel grading skills are right on target! Both of them received 9.8s!!!

The #27 Emperor Doom starring the Mighty Avengers, is only the second graded copy now, with the other being 9.8 as well.

But the #9 The Futurians, is one that I never thought I would find in 9.8, let alone find raw in a store and accomplish the grade! It is only the second graded copy as well, but the other is only a 9.0!

It is solid black all the way around the front cover, and on the entire back cover, just like #4. But where #4 was always prized for its New Mutants 1st appearance, this one was not generally handled as gingerly, and as a result, they are virtually impossible to find in such good condition.

That's why I was astonished at finding such an awesome raw copy in an LCS on a trip to a con! These two MGNs were another reason for me to forever remember this show.

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