Today I had a list of things to do...

When I got to the show today, I knew there were a few things on my to do list. First and foremost, I had to get my booth set up before the show opened. This took considerably less time than the day before thankfully because I already knew how it was to be set up. It was mostly restocking the shelves and what not, time consuming, but not too difficult.

Once I was done with that, it was on to my next agenda item, which was to pay a visit to Mr. Liefeld. I saw him arrive around 9:30 and after he got a little setteld in, I figured I would go over and ask him my few questions. I asked about the cost for a sketch on one of the blank variant covers I have, which was reasonable, and also for signing the raw New Mutants 98. We agreed on the price for the two books and he was pretty nice and professional the whole time. I left my books with him for when I would return later with a CGC rep. Task #1 completed.

Some time passed and the show got under way, and right out of the gate I noticed a big change between Friday and today, the amount of people in attendance. Easily there were 3-4 times the amount of traffic in the show. While this made the isles and booth a littled crowded at times, I wasn't going to complain because crowded meant more sales Lots of interesting characters walking around as well... those people are a lot bolder and confident than I would be wearing some of the things I saw people wearing ...

Anyways, it was now time to get task #2 underway which was to make the rounds and deliveries to a few dealers/artists whom requested particular books from the day before. I'm not going to disclose my clientle, but for those whom I was able to met there request, they were pretty happy and satisfied. Nothing beats someone being able to deliver a book you want straight to you for a price that's better than reasonable.

I headed back to the booth to now start on task #3, which was to submit my Collector's Society Coupon books to CGC, but before I could head back out, I was approached by someone who wanted to sell me one of their books. He presented me with a CGC 9.6 Daredevil 158 (first Miller on run). Nice book, and I was kinda interested, but he let me know of an offer he had received elsewhere, so knowing that the offer he had was better than what I wanted to offer him, I passed without disclosing my offer (the other guy offered cash and trade, I wanted to offer cash at slightly less than what the other guy put on the table. I believe in offering an honest an fair price, but what he told me was just too much for me for that book).

Now back to task #3... I decided to use my coupon on my copy of X-Men #1, X-Men #94, and another one of my Incredible Hulk #181s. A few people were impressed with the books when I presented them and I am hoping to do well with this submission. We'll see in a few weeks how thy fare...

Task #4 was now to go pick up my books from the Liefeld booth. As I headed back to his booth, I noticed how busy the artisit get at these shows. There were more then a few people waiting for him, which I expected. Unfortunately my books were not ready at that time, which was ok, given the amount of people at the show and the demand for his signature and sketches these days. I decided that I would use this added wait time to check out other parts of the show I had not already seen, which was good because I was able to get a small break for the madness waiting for me in my booth. After about 30 mins, I returned with a CGC rep again and this time the books were reday. Liefeld was actually putting the finsihing touches on my sketch, and it looks awesome! Completely happy with it and I really don't care what grade CGC assigns it. Its a one of a kind peice and it's goona make a nice addition to my collection! He signed the New Mutants 98 as well, AND he was able to sign one of my Wolverine 1 deadpool variant books on the fly as well... thanks again to Mr. Liefeld!

Once I got my signature series submission settled it was all about the booth after that and planning for tomorrow. I'm still trying to plot out my day and i hope that most of the artist and celeb's still decide to attend the show.

well since i have to get up in about 6 hours, i'm gonna wrap this up. Here's to a successful and happy day 2 in the books, and I am looking forward to day 3 and what it brings!

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