For CGC comics, that is.

It's been a couple of weeks since my last journal. I've been so busy with other things. So here is something totally new that I can do one on...

I requested a set to be created months ago. I was actually surprised that no one had thought to ask for this set to be made a reality before now.

So I did some research, gave Gemma the list, and made the official request. Nicole has taken over this duty since then and has done a fantastic job with keeping up with our numerous requests, both in the full set category and in the set expansion category.

Thank you, Nicole!!!!

It may take a while for our requests to finally reach creation status, but with Nicole working hard for us everyday, they DO get done when she gets to them.

So after waiting for quite some time, I can finally say, "Welcome to the CGC registry!!!!", because the Marvel 25th Anniversary Border Covers (1986) set has FINALLY become a reality!!!!!

This set features every single comic book that Marvel released during the month of November of 1986!! Ok, maybe not ACTUALLY released at that time, but at the same time nonetheless. November is the "Published" date anyway.

The cool thing about this set is that it allows a variety of issues from a variety of series to be grouped together in one set, since they all share the common uniformity of the exact same border on every single one of their covers.

I believe this is the first instance of Marvel doing such a thing with their comic books, though I could be wrong. Feel free to correct me in the replies to this journal if this is the case.

But regardless, this set now exists and I know that I couldn't be happier! It is so cool to see something that you came up with become accepted and endorsed in the broader social medium, within which, you reside.

The hardest issues within this set to acquire will be the Marvel/Star Comics. Series like, "Masters of the Universe", "Ewoks", "Muppet Babies", "Care Bears", "Heathcliff" and "Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham"' will be among the hardest to acquire in graded form for this set.

So without further ado, everybody check the set out and see which issues you have that could apply to it, and maybe, just maybe, you may feel the desire to slowly work on completing your own set in this category.

To give you an example, below is a pic of my Conan the King #37 that I have in my set, which will show you the border that belongs on all of the issues in this 1986 set.

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