Lee K's Journal

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Welcome new registry members

or: how I dropped 30 ranks in 30 days... I don't know - last month I was ranked 391 and trying to determine how many years it would take me to get in to the 200's - now I'm ranked 421 and wondering how many months it will take to get back in the 300's. Did we get a bunch of new registry members? if so, that's really cool - more people to share with. Or did everyone all of a sudden have a lot more money to spend on our hobby than me? which is kinda cool, but I wish I had some cash too... O
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Hole in my routine

After 30 days of reading, I think I'm hooked Now that Tnerb has finished his 30 in 30 experiment - my morning routine has a hole in it. Although perfectly aware that it is December this morning, I anticipated logging in and reading what new tid-bit Tnerb had to share with us today and I was terribly dissappointed when there wasn't anything. Obviously no-one can write every day, forever, ad infinitum...but good writing, and I think Tnerb's qualifies, is addictive. Thank you for 30 days of
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What else is there?

I mean, we all collect comics or we wouldn't be here, right? So, what else makes you smile like comics make you smile? Now, I don't mean your spouse or family - my wife makes me smile, I understand that. But, I have other guilty pleasures - I love looking at the movie poster auctions on Heritage. I haven't purchased any - as an artist myself, I have no wall space; but I might make wall space for the 'perfect specimin'. When I was young, I was sure that I wanted to collect Buffalo Nickles
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Happy Thanksgiving

Just so there is something to read that Tnerb didn't write... OK - just kidding, I read Tnerb's journals all the time, I find them an interesting window into the thoughts of another collector that I will probably never meet (I'm on the other coast...). But I wanted to take the time to give a little thanks. Thanks to each of you for being part of a bigger community that I enjoy, because without many of us and our many different likes there wouldn't be a comic book industry. Thanks that I s
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Every single go-go check

Finally I have a place for each one When I first decided to pursue all of the go-go checked books issued by DC in 1966 & 1967, I failed to adaquately comprehend the magnitude of my targe collection: 464 issues over 45 titles; war books, super-heros, funny books, and romance... Sure, some sets: Action, ASM, X-Men, Detective, for instance are larger, longer, contain more books - but at least some of the books are bronze & copper...the titles have strong followings, so there are multipl
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Stan Lee SS

Image yeah - well...here it is, cropped to fit the journal standards.
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Stan Lee SS

9.6? 9.8? 9.9? 10?!? OK - ok, so I carefully hand picked a modern book to send in for the signing; and I selected Wonder Woman because my wife digs WW...So how could I possibly be disappointed with a 9.8 White SS book? Well, I really gave it a hard, critical look before I packaged it up to send cross-country and I was completely comfortable that the book was nicer than the one 9.9 I own (since I read that one before I sent it in...) That having been said, I am certain that I will be happy w
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Scheduled for Grading

What does it really mean? For practical purposes, it means I should see my grades tomorrow; but hasn't my package been 'scheduled for grading' since it was received? I just making noise because I haven't gotten my grade back yet on my SS submission - so, maybe tomorrow I'll be satisfied (maybe I'll be happy too). L
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About time I cleaned up my entries

So I finally got back to 100% images and 100% texts for my entries.. I don't really have a lot of time to spend on the computer, so I am happy that the site makes it so easy for me to add a comic to one of my sets. The problem is, I don't always have a comment about a book right away and I often have to adjust the image if I ripped the image from a site I bought from or I have to work up my own and edit it - and that takes time. I feel much better knowing that my page is up-to-date. Now I
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Answering Surfer99's question

thanks to Tnerb for reposting in his half-answer. 10 books? 10 BOOKS!? That's it as I'm running out the door in the underwear because the house is on fire? In all honesty whatever books were on top - or in the top box of slabs would probably be the ones that were saved, so Action, Adventure, Batman, Brave & the Bold, and Blackhawk would make it out the window/door...but, if I could choose 10 books, limited to my CGC slabs (I do have a couple brand x slabs...), then I would choose these -
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So I sent a book for the Stan Lee signing

But I'm not really a marvel collector, I mean a read some Marvel when I was young, but the stories don't really hold up well for me as an adult... So after digging through my stacks of DC goodness I found Stan Lee presents Just Imagine Wonder Woman - for some unknown reason I was really, really choosy when I selected this off this rack so I am excited to see how it comes back graded. The nice thing is my current wife is a huge WW fan and I didn't even know her when I bought this, so she's nev
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Waiting again

Books are out to CGC and are verified... so now all I can do is wait. Plastic Man (1966) #1; Inferior 5 #1; and Teen Titans #2 are all sitting in line waiting their turn behind boxes and boxes of convention submissions and I'm sitting on my hands. I anticipate they will come back 9.0 OW/White; 9.2 white; and 9.0 OW - I hope I have gotten better at grading before I sent this batch in... L well - here's an interesting turn of events, my order status from CGC says graded, but they came in a
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Mike Grell

is an old friend of mine - 15 years and counting now... and since he moved from across the river from me to about 100 miles south of me, we haven't touched base. Anyway, I was thinking about him over the weekend because he and his wife Lauri didn't make it to our annual winter gathering and when I checked my morning email there's an invite for me & mine to come down & spend the weekend at his new place. I feel unprepared; usually I bring something from his past to tease him with - l
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Waiting

for my first submission to be graded... OK - so I am naturally impatient, particularly when I don't know the answers. I sent three packages in to be graded and I am eagerly waiting for my first set of grades. Right now I am showing one package Scheduled for Grading and the other two Verified...it's weird because I just grabbed some books, more or less at random, from the piles of stuff I have as 'I aught to get this graded some day' - so I sent some Marvel, some DC, some silver, some bronze,
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