A lot going on right now!

Well, its been almost a month since my last journal. Has anyone missed me?.....

Probably not.

But while Ive been away, Ive been super busy with work and other things, and just havent had enough going on to warrant doing any journals lately.....

Until now, that is.

Since Baltimore, Ive been in hold mode on my books and submissions, with nothing new to report. But now, things are starting to pick back up and I have a few things to talk about, so here goes!

First off, I had a couple of reholders that I submitted to CGC at Baltimore CC. One was my Photo Op with Billy Dee Williams, which for some inexplicable reason, they originally encased in a plain, solid sheet of Barax, instead of the Binder ready version that all of subsequent Signed Photo Ops were done in. So they redid that and its perfect now! So Ive added to my binder filled with the others. Yay!

Another reholder was for my CGC 9.9 WP Wizard 1/2 Spiderman Wizard Special Edition mail away exclusive (geez, thats a mouthful). The reason for my reholdering of this book is because when I bought it, it came to me with some kind of hard gluey gunk all on the casing. On top of that, it had the old, red label on it from the old days of CGC, and while some may like the old labels, I am not one of those people.

The label was ok as far as color matching the cover, but it was very wrinkled up and warped looking. So the combination of these two things is why I reholdered it. But I had to make sure it wouldnt affect the grade, so I asked at the show if this was doable without having to regrade the book, and after looking it over, they told me they couldnt see any obvious reason why they would feel the need to do a regrade, so it would just be reholdered with a new case and label.

Well, I got it back now as well, and I couldnt be happier with it! It looks so much better in its clean, new case and awesome new 9.9 label!!

One of the other things that happened right before I left for Baltimore was that I received my coupon for four free Standard submissions for the first of the two major Registry awards I won! So I decided to take advantage of being at Baltimore to go ahead and submit them there at the show to save on shipping charges to CGC.

The books I decided on were:

Daredevil #8

Daredevil #9

Daredevil #10

Strange Tales #155

The three Daredevils are OCC books that my father and I bought way back in 1987. I think we spent a total of $22 for all three of them. I had them all in the 6.0 to 7.0 range, and didnt bother to check page quality. The Strange Tales book was one I purchased about seven years ago from Mile High Comics. I had it at 9.2 OW/W. I just got them back this week and here are the results:

Daredevil #8 - 7.0 OW

Daredevil #9 - 6.5 OW

Daredevil #10 - 6.5 OW/W

Strange Tales #155 - 9.0 OW/W

So I was right in the same range on the Daredevils but was one grade too hogh on the ST, though I did calculate the page quality exactly right on it. The DD books are very sentimental to me, so they will not be going anywhere, but I may consider selling the ST soon.

The last topic for this journal is the upcoming NYCC. I have never attended this show and probably never will. Its just too expensive and too much crowd to deal with me. Baltimore and Megacon is about as big as I want to deal with and they are big enough. But I AM sending my big brother some books to give to Kaholo since they will both be there and Kaholo has offered to handle them for me. Thank you Tnerb for relaying the books and thank you Kaholo for getting the sigs for me! You guys are awesome!!

Anyway, here are the books I am having done at NYCC:

Iron man #212 - Danny Fingeroth and Joe Rubinstein

FF #296 - Joe Rubinstein, Klaus Janson, Al Milgrom, Jerry Ordway

ASM #282 - Bob Layton

G I Joe #53 - Joe Rubinstein

Solar #1 Ultra Rare Layton Virgin Variant - Bob Layton and Frank Barbiere

Elektra Vol 3 #1 RIE Sienk Variant - Bill Sienkiewicz

New Mutants Annual 1 CGC 9.8 - Bill Sienkiewicz, Bob McLeod, Chris Claremont

New Mutants #100 2nd Print CGC 9.8 - Rob Liefeld

New Mutants #87 CGC SS 9.8 - adding Liefeld and McFarlane

Marvel Preview #4 - Bob McLeod, Gerry Conway

Four of these are for my Marvel 25th Anniversary Border Covers set. The Marvel Preview is a raw copy I got on Ebay. Its at least 9.0, but I am hoping a press will get it to at least 9.2. Having it double signed will be even better!

So there you go everybody. Thats where I am right now. Everybody caught up?

GREAT!!!!!

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