3 more SS books!!

My brother and I are always on the lookout for a new signature to add to our New Mutants collections. When I started to get mine signed, I didn't really care about who signed it as long as they were involved with the book itself.

Now, thanks to Tnerb, I keep an eye out for an unusual or new signature to add to my premiere collection. He was the first one to do this and now I too love to get a wider variety of sigs on them.

So when he informed me that he would be attending the NYSE, I saw another opportunity for another creator to sign issues that I have never gotten a signature from before.

Kevin Nowlan would be at the show and he did the covers for New Mutants #51 and #56. He also did a cover for another series that I am trying to get signatures on. Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D. was a cool six-issue mini-series in the late 80's that had the unusual feature of a different artist for each of the six covers, even though everything else in the issues was done by the same people.

So I decided that I would like to try and get each of the six cover artists to sign their respective issue. I started at Megacon earlier this year with Bill Sienkiewicz, who signed my 9.8 copy of #2. Thankfully, it retained its grade. Now I had the chance for getting Nowlan on my 9.8 copy of #5!

So I sent these three books still slabbed to my big brother to get them all signed by Kevin. I just had to hope that they all retained their grades, especially the New Mutants #51, since I didn't have a backup 9.8 copy to replace it if it fell.

So Tnerb cracked my slabs and prepped them for signings. Then he went to NYSE, and had a devil of a time getting there, as he wrote about in a recent journal. I can't thank him enough for persevering through the frustration to attend the show under the unusual circumstances that endeavored to keep him away.

He got these three books signed and a couple of other ones that I wanted Claremont's scrawling on and submitted them to CGC for me. I didn't have these pressed before regrading, because I felt that even if they did fall in grade, I could re-crack them at Baltimore for Louise Simonson to be added to, and then press before regrading to try and bump them back up. But I hoped that wouldn't be necessary. I'd be perfectly happy with just Nowlan on these copies.

So after a month of waiting (yes, I fast tracked them), they are now back in my hands! I was scared to look once I saw that they were Shipped/Safe, but Tnerb forced my hand and my nerves nearly burned out as my eyes scanned over the grades.

New Mutants #51 - SS 9.8 WP

New Mutants #56 - SS 9.8 WP

Nick Fury vs. S.H.I.E.L.D #5 - SS 9.8 WP

Hallelujah!!!! They all retained! Thank you, big brother!! You are a master book handler!

Now I have the chance to get my NF vs SHIELD #6 signed by Tom Palmer in Baltimore in a couple of months, but what I really want is to get #1 signed by Jim Steranko. He will be at Tampa Bay CC in a couple of weeks and I will be attending.

The only problem is, #1 is the only issue of the six that I DONT have! I've been looking around and have yet to come across an already graded copy or a 9.8 worthy raw copy that I can take with me. So if anyone knows where I can get one, please let me know.

As my brother always says,

Thanks for reading

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