Thanks to my big brother.

I have had a lot of luck in finding 9.8 worthy raw copies of books on Ebay. Of course, I'm VERY picky about what I buy raw on Ebay, so that helps.

I am in the process of slowly putting together a set of all 29 Marvel issues that came out on November of 1986 with the matching 25th Anniversary Border covers, since the set was created earlier this year at my request.

Many of these are fairly easy to locate, but some are extremely difficult. The Marvel/Star issues alone are VERY tough. Try finding a 9.8 worthy copy of Care Bears #7 or Muppet Babies #10 or even Heathcliff #12. Yeah, good luck with that.

I hope someday to be able to find all 29 of these in top graded form, but for now, it's a slow process.

Just recently, however, I DID manage to find a copy of Cloak and Dagger #9 on Ebay that appeared to have a real chance at 9.8, and once I got it in my hands, I was sure of it! It had one MD on it, but that wouldn't affect the grade.

So I sent it along with some other books to my brother, Tnerb for signings at ECCC 2014. Arthur Adams was my goal for this issue. Tnerb got everything done for me, including this one, and I just got it back from CGC a few days ago!

This is also a very tough one to find for this set, because it isn't normally sought after for grading for the most part. So I am ecstatic to not only be able to find one raw on Ebay, but also to have it signed by the great Art Adams to boot!!

Thank you, big brother!!!!!!

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