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SuperTechMonkey

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  1. Interested in both Magik Variants: $175 CGC 9.8 SS Fast Tracked Jim Lee (Includes Jim Lee’s signing Fee) $150 CGC 9.8 SS Fast Tracked Jim Lee (Includes Jim Lee’s signing Fee) PM'd you as well
  2. Wow... So...for the longest time I've had this issue loose in a comic box...I bought it loose off of some dealer on eBay. The issue was in pretty bad shape...crinkled upper corner and bends, dents and creases all over the front AND back covers on this poor thing...the dealer even, once finding out my grading intentions for the book, tried to talk me out of spending the money on the book that I spent(like $40 I think). But I had hope. I had a dream. I had a vision...well...not really...I just knew I had never seen the book before and I really wanted it regardless...I mean c'mon, it's a variant cover featuring Magik! It could have had a footprint on it and I would've at least thought about it ...but moving on... So that took place around two years ago... Fast forward to the night before this year's Wizard World Chicago and there I sat, looking at a comic box populated solely by books that I've set aside here and there over time with the intent on grading them...it's in the back of this box that the issue had sat buried for nearly two years... When I stumbled across it I smiled almost like finding an old friend in a shopping mall at Christmastime...I pulled it out of the Mylar and boards I had sheltered the poor mistreated thing in and placed it on the table in front of me and sighed...it was such a cool book...don't have the slightest inkling where it was released or it's print run for that variant cover...but I didn't care one shred... I sat there and thought to myself that, if I submitted it for grading, it would limp back to me with a 8.5 or a 9.0 as a "pie in the sky" grade and my heart sank a little more... Then I looked at the info regarding the pressing that CCS was offering on-site at Wizard World Chicago this year and grinned a little. I had, at that moment, decided that at Wizard World the great experiment...my first experience with pressing...would transpire for good or ill. I told myself that it didn't matter if it didn't snag a high mark like a 9.8 because of the extensive mistreatment of the issue...but only that I wanted to try and mend this really cool book and give it the proper home that such a book deserved. With that mindset, I walked into the con the next day and submitted it and went back to the hotel bar, had a drink and hoped for the best, knowing that this wait for a book, above any other I've ever submitted, would just eat me up inside till it was returned to me in it's shiny new CGC case... So if you've read my Wizard World Chicago report I posted a while back then you know how this played out for me...again I say ugh! So guess what came in the mail today? Yup, my newly pressed and graded variant with my favorite character on the cover, sporting a 9.8 grade! I wish so badly that I had taken "before" pictures to post alongside of this so I could show you all how amazing of a job the CCS gang did with this book...if I didn't know any better I would say that this wasn't even my original book... Behold the power of pressing... To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
  3. So... So every con trip I make I have a sort-of goal of either picking up something relating to the character Magik, getting a sketch cover of her, or a book graded with her on the cover...have done this every time so far... So for Wizard World Chicago I decided to take advantage of On-Site service and get this New Mutants Forever issue done with the absolutely fantastic Arthur Adams cover on it. Sorry about the bad pic...plan on upgrading all of the pics for my issues soon...but I had to put this one up for the Magik fans out there To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
  4. So yeah... After months and months of unemployment and having to sell stacks of my CGC issues off, I finally start my new job next week and can eventually start to get back to a semi-normal life, financially speaking... Strangely enough, this is somewhat good for my comics collecting too, go figure ... So I scraped up enough money to be able to tag along with some friends to the Wizard World Chicago Convention held last weekend in Rosemont. It was a pretty nice show (better than the year before anyway) and the con runners did some different things with the show in general...some worked out nicely and some didn't...but overall a nice show. "Fun" Fact of the Con Weekend: CGC took (according to them) a 500-issue On-Site order at the opening of the con (yes, 500-issues...the guy at the booth was very serious about it) which delayed EVERYONE'S books to the near-end of the day on Saturday and or Sunday...so if you were leaving the con before Sunday you were mostly out of luck and even more so if you were getting anything pressed before on-site grading...I dropped off books (some for pressing and grading and some just for grading) and barely got my "just grading" books back a handful of minutes before I left the con for the weekend on Saturday evening...I'll have to wait for the ones that I gave over for pressing and grading together I suppose... Maybe CGC should rethink placing limits on how many books one can submit for on-site work...or maybe for dealers since it was obviously a dealer who submitted the CART OF BOOKS!!!! But enough of that mess, moving along... I didn't do a ton of shopping due to being slightly compromised in the financial sense but came along the booth belonging to Bedrock Comics and, in their CGC boxes (they had a nice cross section of stuff too) was a CGC 9.8 White Pages copy of Marvel Team-Up 100 which is the first appearance of Karma from the New Mutants (and more recently Astonishing X-Men fame). I was so excited over finding it because I has been looking for a really nice copy of this book for a while and every time I found one on eBay I got locked out of it...The guys at Bedrock Comics wanted $100 for it...I mentioned that it was a bit out of my budget (despite the fact that, even at $100, it's a fair price for that book at that condition/grade). They were really cool about it and gave me a sweetheart deal on the book that I won't even mention here because it was that cool of a deal. Got their business card and plan on dealing with them in the future as well... Besides a few loose copies of some Whitman Buck Rogers books and a bootleg DVD of the ill-fated The Robinsons: Lost In Space TV pilot from 2004 (yes kids, the DVD bootleggers are back in force this year ) this would be the only purchase I made at the con beyond pressing/grading stuff and, to be honest, was satisfied in just finding this. To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
  5. So here is the conundrum... So here is the conundrum...I bought this loose sketch cover with art done by this guy (artist Fer Galicia) late last year. He's moving out of the country (I recently found out) so there's no way to catch him at a con to have him sign the book for sig series certification...so if I send this book in for grading, it's going to get slapped with a Green Label...and, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure I care about that happening...but then there's this little voice in the back of my head that keeps trying to stop me from sending it in...it's dumb I know and the piece is really good to say the least...I'm pretty sure it's getting sent in soon...just gotta push myself that one extra push and just ship it out and let the chips fall where they may...I don't know why the staples look like they do in the pic (he sent it to me when I bought the book) but the staples look great on the spine and I think the book should do well for grading... To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
  6. This thing simply hurts my eyes looking at it This thing simply hurts my eyes looking at it I swear ...signed by Zeb Wells, it makes a nice companion to the other signed New Mutants #1 I just bought. I also recently bought a loose sketch cover for the latest Uncanny X-Men run featuring Magik and Colossus (my two favorite Marvel characters) which I'll post in a sec...meanwhile, put on some sunglasses and enjoy the visual assault of the Alex Ross Dynamic Forces New Mutants #1 Variant, signed (if you can see it in the middle of all color insanity around it...) by series writer Zeb Wells To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
  7. I think out of all the comic runs I've ever collected I think out of all the comic runs I've ever collected, The New Mutants with always be my first love. This little beauty just came in and is signed by Adam Kubert. I have the Dynamic Forces Version of #1 signed by Zeb Wells and I have one of the really low-print sketch versions (I think they were released at SDCC one year way back but fuzzy on the actual number of them out there...heard 100 or 300 but can't seem to find any info on them...) on deck to get pressed out (a few dents/soft creases has it at a 9.2/9.4 by my estimate) and graded to round out all the #1s for this set except for the 2nd print. To be honest, I love the fact that there are a few die-hard New Mutants fans like myself around here (looking at you Tnerb and bagofleas) ...granted I have a VERY long road before I ever get New Mutants sets like theirs...but one day... To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
  8. What can I say... What can I say...in addition to X-Titles, Buck Rogers, V, Transformers and the rest, I also have a slight addiction to anything drawn by Jim Lee, David Finch, or J. Scott Campbell...this particular pirce being from the last of the aforementioned three... Just recently picked this book up raw at Wizard World Chicago and immediately submitted it for onsite grading. When I saw it I knew I simply had to have it and, when I plunked down my $150.00 on the rare Redhead variant (that theres only 100 of...) my friend, Kevin, looked at me like I was possessed like in the Exorcist... But thats ok...if you arent addicted to Campbell covers then theres simply no explaining the addiction to them...but for those of you who do appreciate his work, heres one of his best so far... To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
  9. So nice I did it twice... So this sketch was done at C2E2 this year (2012) by Michael Dooney and is of Magik in her updated New Mutants costume (they really need to get her a new look sometime soon now that they have her on the "A" X-Men team...). Sadly this ended up with a 9.6 (Besides my Black Hole #4, the only non-9.8 in my entire collection to date...) but, quite frankly, I like the sketch way too much to part with it. As a result I just kick back and appreciate the art for what it is and try not to even pay attention to that 9.6 behind the curtain... To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.
  10. So yeah... So yeah, after having my registry sets up for almost two years now, I finally got around to getting photos (not all of them exactly perfect) of everything in my sets up on the registry site. Better late than never I suppose... Besides, things like this sketch work pictured here should be shown rather than hidden I always say. This particular sketch cover (of my absolute favorite character Magik, all done up in her Darkchild persona) was done by Misty Coats (at C2E2 2011) who is the colorist for the Image Comics ongoing series Skullkickers (a pretty fun book to read, be sure to pick up an issue and check it out!) To see old comments for this Journal entry, click here. New comments can be added below.