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About this journal

 Just got back from my vacation hiking in NY state. Found a little comic store and pick these up for $3 - $5 each. I'd grade them all in the 8.0 to 9.0. Cant wait to read them.

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How low do you go?

Is there a bottom grade that you never go below with your CGC slabs? I recently decided to start collecting more of the GHOSTS series other than the first 15 which have a different design to thier covers than the ones after issue #15. Now, its a long series with 112 issues and a few specials listed in other series. I decided to collect the first 15 issue because they are so hard to find well centered. After issue 15 they becomes a bit easier to find well centered. I've decided to still only b

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I'm so jealous of you guys who collect...

Must be nice to go to ebay and find the series you're collecting/looking for in CGC holders. Yeah, that's right, I'm feeling kind of jealous right now. Of who you ask. I'll tell you. All you people that collect all the popular series of comic books. Yeah, you know who you are. All you who collect Amazing Spider Man, Batman, X-Men, Fantastic Four, and on and on I could go. Must be nice to do your eBay CGC search and see hundreds of hits for your series there in front of you, what excitment you

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I'm a COMICLINK loser.

I won a auction lot, then why do I feel like a loser? After to going through all the lots in the latest Comiclink auction I had picked out all the Thrilling Comics lots to bid on. I was going to win one of those lots if it was the last thing I did. It's been a long time since I had added a comic to my set on the Registry and here was a good chance to do that. My main goal was to get either the #43 or #71 as they were the highest grade of the lots. Things started going bad as soon as the first

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My submission has been graded!

A few journals ago I gave my predictions, let's see how I did. Following is a copy of my journal when I predicted what the grades would be, I'll let you know what they came back as after that journal. I just shipped off 6 comics to CGC and as always I write down what I think the comics will grade at when they come home. I'd like to share my predictions with fellow journal watchers. When they come back we'll see how good a grader I am. So without futher words here they

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A new SIP for the LL&P￿

CYBI (Can You Believe It) Used a BIN to win this SIP for my LL&P Collection. Sorry, I forgot this is journaling and not texting. Best2u

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Do you ever break your own rules?

When something comes along that's to good to pass up do you bend your rules a bit. When I start to collect a series of comics I plan it out and set a bunch of rules to keep me from getting carried away. You know, rules like- only CGC slabs, only grades between this and that, off-white pages or better, issues 1 thru whatever, and on and on it could go. An example would be my collection of "Ghosts". Rule #1 was issues #1-15, rule #2 is well centered copies with no elements cut off, rule #3 was C

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I agree with Tom!

What were they thinking? Not even asking how we felt about this change, or at least posting something about it a month or so ahead, so we had time to comment would have been nice. I do like the look of the new format but they could have at least kept the larger pictures when you went to enlarge the tumbnail pictures. I feel sorry for Tom who had the best Star Trek pictures in the Registry. Let's hope CGC learns to get some input from the people who use the Registry for viewing other peoples co

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New submission off to CGC and my predictions.

After writting about pedigree comics in a past journal it was time to submit these comics to CGC I just shipped off 6 comics to CGC and as always I write down what I think the comics will grade at when they come home. I'd like to share my predictions with fellow journal watchers. When they come back we'll see how good a grader I am. So without futher words here they are. 1.- Midnight Tales #5, Mass. Copy, super hi-grade inside but the cover has a small scuff which shows up a bit on the black c

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Should collecting pedigreed comics be a collection?

Does collecting mis-matched pedigreed comics from mis-matched series make a collection? Would it be possible to get one of each? I love to collect pedigreed comics that fit into the comic book series that I collect. It's so cool to spred out a series and see a White Mountain or Bethleham pedigree comic mixed in with the other unpedigreed slabs. I mean, how neat is it to have a Mile High Or "D" Copy pedigree book and to be able to think that Edgar Church or Davis Crippen held that book in his h

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#1 cover in my collection

Here it is. My favorite cover that I own. Check out my past journals to see my other top covers. From E.C. Comics in Jan. of 1953 comes Frontline Comics #10. This cover grabed me from the min. I saw it in the CGD gallery of covers for Frontline Combat. I do go there a lot to look at covers I'm missing from series I collect. Some of the finest artists in the comic kingdom worked on this cover. J. Severin did the pencils, B. Elder did the inks with M. Severin on colors and B. Oda on lettering.

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Second on my list

Getting close to the #1 cover that I own. But 1st #2. Well, here we are with my second favorite comic cover that I own. If this is your first visit to my list of favorite covers of my collection you may want to look at my other journals to catch up. When I saw this cover on eBay I knew it was something I needed to take a closer look at. There before me was a copy of "Mystery in Space" #116 from Feb. of 1981 in CGC 9.4 with white pages. The cover was by Jim Starlin and with art by Ditko and Cr

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My third most favorite cover.

Black cover and orange lettering should be plenty to start getting you scared. Very rarely do I buy a comic that isn't in one of the series that I collect. With my limited budget I need all he money I have just to try and finish the series I collect. Every once in a while I see a cover that makes me want to read the comic inside the cover. This comic is one of them. "It's Midnight... The Witching Hour" #84 has a great cover by Luis Dominguez one of the best cover artists of the 1970's if not

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My 4th favorite cover

Thanks guys. Now what can we do for you? Here we start with the countdown of my 4 favorite comic covers that I own. Here we have, as number four, a great Alex Schomburg cover from Thrilling Comics #50 done in Oct. of 1945. This cover is as American as apple pie. Let's start by checking out the bottom right corner to see the band welcoming home the boys back from WWII. Center bottom, above the DO NOT PASS sign, you get to see the proud parents who seem to have a look of relief on thier faces ju

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Best cover that I own.

A few weeks ago I promised my favorite cover. Here they, I mean, it is, well, take a look. In one of my journals I'd said I was going to show my favorite cover of a comic that I owned. Now, there are at least 100 covers that I like better than the ones shown below but I know that I'll never own them. Just to expensive or hard to find. Anyway, below are my four favorite comic covers that I own. Now I know what you're going to say, their so small, the titles aren't shown. That's all part of my p

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What do I read?

11 inches of snow and nothing to do. Okay, I'm here in Michigan with no job and 11 inches of snow on the ground in the last 2 days. Roads are slick with ice and it's about 14 degrees out side. What should I do with my time? okay , I'll read some of my favorite comics series, but which ones? After a little thinking on the subject I think I'll start with Maus 1 & 2. These graphic novels are a bit heavy reading for 8 am but we all need a little kick in the now and then. Second in line wil

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Tearable spellng and something that pisses me off. #3

Don't blame me there is no spell checking. Star Trek #1 needs fixing. First I'd like to say "Sorry" for all the bad spelling that happens in my journals. I just got done reading a few of my old entries and saw how many misspelled words and typos there were. I don't know how to type, I just pick, and sometimes spend 20 seconds looking for the right letter. There is no spell check for the journal and I'm to lazy to go back and correct them all. Once again "Sorry" and I'll try to do better. I

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Okay, I lied. Weekly Journal #2

Big news makes me change my plans for this weeks journal. I really don't know if I lied. Last week I said I was going to show you my favorite cover from a comic that I owned. I just can't do that as I won a lot in the last Heritage auction that I just have to tell about. Besides collecting the series I have in my registry I also am putting together a set of all the different pedigrees that CGC lists. Now this is a very hard task to do for a man with a very limited budget. I'd like to thank

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My new weekly Journal, #1

Two things that kind of make me mad. This will be short and sweet, and nobody get made at me, it's just the way I feel. The first is. People who use the Registry and sign up for ever series of comic listed in the Registry. Not only that but then they never list a issue in thier set. What's up with that, make you feel good that you've got the highest graded set when you don't even have a comic listed in it. I'm thinking CGC should delist any set that doesn't have a comic in it within one mo

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More Journals needed.

Come on people, write. I love checking my CGC sets every day to see if anythings changed, my rankings, or to add a tid-bit of info to some set. Before I even start to do that I look at the 3 most recent Collectors Journals that have been posted, which are listed on the left hand side of the screen. Over the last month or so I notice a hugh lack of new journals. Sometimes the same journals will stay as the most recent for 3 or 4 days. Come on people write more in your journals so I have some

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New varietyt for Aurora Comic Scenes #187-140, Batman.

Could I have just discovered a new variety for a Batman comic? Well, it took me awhile to find this, it's been sitting in the collection for a year or two, but take a look at the picture below. When the Aurora Comic Scenes hoard started coming to the market I decided to get one copy of each. After getting 5 of the 10 issues I notice that the other five were not coming up for sale very often. I did a CGC pop. check and found that the Batman(15 graded), Tarzan, Tonto, Spider-Man, and Lone Ranger

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