Ron C.

The bottom left on the spine of the Cracked is glare.

Sorry for the large size of the images, but here are two of the copies:

A question for the Mad Magazine Collectors: In 1978, I bought several of the Mad 196 Star Wars editions (as well as the Jan 1978 Cracked SW cover) and just bagged and stored them. There is not a lot of info on higher quality copies other than the Gaines copies. Are they worth getting graded? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I would love to play. Count me in!

I will take one of the 9.9's gold sig preferred.

That is one of my favorites as well (along with the HQ Watchmen cover, of course). Frank's work has been pretty impressive.

Mike Colter has been added to the show for C2E2. We have some new Luke Cage books in hand - seems we picked some up that I forgot we ordered. After prescreening them we can offer 8 copies in CGC 9.8 or your money back and you keep the book. The cost is $175.00 a book and includes Shipping in the USA/Canada. CGC Grading, our fee, and Mikes fee. I will take one of these SS Mike Colter Luke Cage copies.

Here are 3 new sketch covers by Frank Kadar that came back this week from CGC:

one copy

One copy please

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Thanks Dan! I can't wait to see what the cover looks like after Steve's coloring.

That is incredible!

Please leave feedback and comments. Thank you.

That was one of my favorite X-Men covers that year (along with 152). Being a double sized issue, it was hard to keep flat over the years. Back then, there weren't really that many new issues to choose from each month, so when a cover looked great, it stood out.

Hey, I recognize that one. I'm glad it went to a good home. I bought a number of them at my LCB store on release and they stayed packed away until this summer.

8/23 Modern ST prescreen hit shipped/safe earlier this week. Still no shipping date on one of them though.

I had about a 40% 9.8 rate with my 38 year old Bronze submissions. I seemed to have better luck getting 9.8's when I didn't give 9.6 as a minimum. Could it be because you were a bit more severe in your grading before the prescreening? I know I was a bit more lax in this recent batch of books since if it didn't meet the grade it was only a $5 fee so why not take a bit of a gamble and see how it goes. Perhaps. I think I am getting a better feel for the higher end grades this past year. When I collected last (in 1983), NM was a really nice looking comic. Now, that can encompass anything at or likely above a 9.4. It's been quite the learning experience and the first few months I graded some issues that I should not have.

I had about a 40% 9.8 rate with my 38 year old Bronze submissions. I seemed to have better luck getting 9.8's when I didn't give 9.6 as a minimum.

Back from CGC. Thank you to Rich Henn for facilitating this signing with Bob McLeod!!! I love the signature placement.

Sorry for posting where I should not have. I was just so excited with the sketch. I have deleted the image so as not to interfere with the thread.

Sorry, it's not slabbed yet. It will be in a few weeks. I only wanted to share an amazing cover, not to enter a contest.

So are you happy or sad? I'm not sure. I certainly need to use the word "pre-screen" more often.

Many Modern ST Received 8/23 Graded 10/22 Shipped 10/31 A lot of the grades are not what I expected. A bunch!!! lower than expected and a good number of 9.8's that were unexpected.

Duplicate from the sales thread. It really is an awesome book. First in this thread gets the book. U.S. shipping by USPS Priority mail 10.00 (outside of US at cost) No returns on CGC slabs PayPal only No HOS or PL need respond. Marvel Comics Super Special #2 CGC 9.6 CLOSED The grader's notes listed lite bends top back spine (shown on second last image). The front cover is amazing .. both are, actually. I offered this to a Board member last week and will extend the offer to other board members. .. ( Yes, the last GPA a year and a half ago was less, but there are only 37 copies at 9.6 or greater and this is almost a 40 year old book). I will keep this up for a few days and then send it to clink or MCS.