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OfficialPix was doing preorders for Star Wars Celebration, including CGC Signature Series but I'm not sure if they do in person submissions. It might be worth reaching out to them. Their website looks like it's moving to Shopify and I couldn't find their contact info on it, but they have a Facebook page and Facebook group that is pretty active though -- that might be your best bet. Good luck!

I got a couple variant covers from Tristan Thompson that I've had trouble finding online. I looked for some good condition copies of silver age Green Lantern books but couldn't find much. Found a few out of print manga volumes I was missing for cheap - Ranma 1/2, One-pound Gospel, mostly Rumiko Takahashi stuff that Viz doesn't want to reprint. I've been on a huge manga kick lately after not reading anything since ~2007 and the series I never finished are all pricey if I want to finish them. My wallet wasn't happy when I saw there was a better than usual selection.

I only went on Friday and had a good time. It was my first time going to a con on a Friday and it felt so much easier to get around. I mostly shopped for books and met celebs. Since there wasn't a CGC facilitator I didn't bother with commissions, something my wallet is probably thanking me for.

If you don't hear word on someone for Motor City check out Galaxycon - they have a private signing with him next month and have CGC witnesses they work with.

I'm probably a bad judge because I try to cram comic shopping, celebrities and seeing artists all into one day. If you compare it to another close by event like Cincinnati Comic Expo, there's roughly the same amount of larger comic specific dealers. It seems like they get a lot of small shops though, as I see a lot of smaller booths packed with "hot" modern books and variant covers.

I'll be there! I've gone to a lot of their shows in the past, and for the size it's pretty good. The artist alley last year had a lot of empty space, so I hope that changes this time around.

I was holding onto this book for awhile waiting for Shatner to come to a con near me that also had a CGC facilitator.

Tristan Thompson's take on Elsa from Frozen.

You'll get the green label by default, yeah. There are some who will contact CGC and tell them to grade it as a Universal/Blue label with the signature counting against the grade. There's no magazine registry either unfortunately. I hope they add one eventually, as I have a small collection of Entertainment Weekly and Maxim magazines signed by celebrities.

I'm assuming it has something to do with the signature fee Jonboy has for the Keanu Reeves signed BRZRKR variant.

So happy to have this Star Sapphire back from Ramona Fradon. Shout out to @Catskillcomics for the help here. Also got this Ro Yoshimiya sketch back at the end of last year, but I've been a bit too busy to post. For those unfamiliar, this is Kirino Kosaka from a Japanese light novel series/anime called Oreimo.

Twin Cities Comics recently partnered with OC Celebrity Marketing LLC for their Nancy Cartwright signing, but I haven't seen them post about either of these signings.

I love Lomov's traditional work, Chun-Li came out great! Did you go through Trinity for this one? I foolishly didn't sign up for the last list they took.

Top 3 for me are probably a little weird to most others - celebs that I have a book ready to go for, but they don't do cons/haven't done a signing. Aubrey Plaza Carley Rae Jepsen Kacey Musgraves

I sent in the same book, and I'm really hoping for a 9.8 as well. Seeing yours has me even more excited to get mine back.

Kind of surprised he didn't have a line, especially with Fast 9 coming out this year. I'm hoping he does more cons next year, because I have that same issue waiting for his signature.

If you submit them to CCS, you will be able to retain the Signature Series label, yes. You pay for grading at the Signature Series rate and the cost to press. There are also some other approved pressers that can press Signature Series books while keeping the Signature Series label, from what I've read on this forum over the years. I can't be of any help pointing those people out for you though, as I've never used one.

Thanks for digging this up! This wasn't the one I was thinking about, but it's still cool to see that this has happened more than a few times now. I'll see if I can't dig through CGC news articles this weekend.

Excited that I got this back today. Thanks @Kevlar for facilitating. There's something off about the slab that I can't quite put my finger on...

I could have sworn that CGC did this with another indie book a few years ago. (Without the COA, around 2015-ish?). I can't remember the book or publisher, so Google hasn't been any help. Anyone remember this, or do I maybe need to make an appointment with my doctor?

I'm hesitant to say any would be best for resale value, but going off of former sales the Wonder Woman #50 photo variant has always been worth more than any of the other photo variants DC has put out. I'd say just send in something that you would be happy to have in your collection.

It's not required no. Just an option if you don't want to make your own.

I posted this to a Facebook group a few weeks back, so you may have caught it already. But, I won the raffle to buy this Collette Turner cover late last year and got it back recently.

I got mine in the mail a few days ago with the same case/looseness. Another slab I got back recently doesn't have the thicker case, but does seem pretty loose. I've had minimal books graded within the past year though, so my sample size is small.

I preemptively bought some magazines once I saw SWAU announce the signing. Unfortunately, nothing 9.8 worthy. My backup plan would have been to send a photo in for encapsulation, but there's no option for that.