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Thank you!

Congrats on those books @SamPool!

I have had 6 Solar #10's pressed and CGC graded all to come back 9.6. One is dual signed by Shooter and Layton. It's just a tough book to get 9.8 with the all black front and back cover. Congrats to those who have gotten a 9.8. I would like to see Bautista in a role, just not the Gilad role. It will be interesting to see what develops in the coming months in regard to this....

So awesome! Congrats to those that took part!

I had something similar happen that caused me to close my pull box at an LCS. I got back into collecting with the re-launch of Valiant in 2012. I hadn't been to my LCS in a few years but when I stopped by they had some of the newer Valiant stuff available but there were still some issues I had to buy which I did via eBay. The owner of the store ordered very few copies of Valiant which I believe prior to me opening the pull box was five copies of each title and two of those went to two pull boxes. Once I was caught up I started a pull box and told them I wanted everything Valiant. I was told no problem and for about 6 months everything was great. I stopped by every Wednesday at lunch, paid, and left with my books. After that a large amount of my comics started to come in damaged; rips, large amounts of spine dings, color breaking bends that went through the entire book, creases, etc. I told them about it and nobody seemed to care. I was told it was not them causing the damage that it was the distributor or the vendor. I was not getting any discount and was paying full cover price and was expected to buy the damaged comics. After three months of that I bought what was in my box and closed it and haven't been back since. I spent anywhere between $150 to $200 a month on comics and supplies and I got the shoulder shrug too when closing the box. When I explained that I like the comics without these issues because I get some signed and graded I was looked at like I was a trouble maker or wanting something for free even though many of the books had significant damage. I told them I would wait for the book if they wanted to send it back and get a new copy sent back and they didn't. I ended up moving to ordering from Midtown and have had only one issue in two years that they fixed immediately. The store is still open and I wish them the best. I think a large chunk of their income comes from card games and tabletop games and while comics are sold there, they just aren't the priority they used to be.

I was just able to catch up in this thread. It was awesome. Thanks for t he report!

PM me @dhurley if you get another DC set. I will buy one.

Noooooo! I wanted one of those DC sets. Dang. Congrats to those that got them!

The Stan Lee sig has most likely put that UXM 266 OA cover out of my price range, lol. Keep up the great work in this thread @Awax!

I like what @valiantman is pointing at in the picture, should have known. Congrats on the anniversary!

Loving this report. Thanks for sharing!

Good god those are awesome! Congrats @ivdyer!

Great books @ivdyer

I have some 9.2 to 9.6 signed books to go with my collection @SamPool but man your display there is impressive. Congrats on all of those books!

That is a good spot for it!

Awesome book @SamPool!

Gotta get Martin to do that. I was just admiring his work.

So fantastic!

Congrats on that book @manetteska!

I came for the bad Spider-Man covers....I stayed for Homer.

RIP

My bad, thanks for adding that @Turtle!

The yellow Signature Series label is for books that have been witnessed by CGC and that have been submitted through the CGC Signature Series program. If the signed books you submitted were purchased directly from the JSC site and were not witnessed, they should have been graded Qualified, received a green label not blue, and had a comment stating "Name written on cover with marker." The JSC site used to provide CGC SS graded books for purchase but if the book was delivered to you raw, signed and you submitted it then green label Qualified.

I have no idea what it is worth but the book sure is cool!

Lol, true.