COMIC DETAILS
|
Comic Description:
|
Justice League America 69 Modern
|
|
Grade:
|
9.8
|
|
Page Quality:
|
WHITE
|
|
Certification #:
|
2139731003
|
|
Owner:
|
Iconic1s
|
SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
This is the first copy of this printing to be graded 9.8 and it is from my own submission!
This is the fourth copy of this book that I personally submitted in my pursuit of all 9.8's for this set and it's grade date is 25 September 2020. I got a 9.2 and two 9.6's back before this book FINALLY earned the 9.8 I had been hoping for!
I pulled the 9.2 from an unopened Doomsday! Collector’s Pack that I won on eBay for $43.00. I also won the Funeral for a Friend Collector’s Pack from the same seller but paid over $200.00 for that one. At the time I wasn’t close to finishing this set and was pretty much mining for books everywhere I could, hoping to strike gold. I bought both packs not knowing exactly what was in them, but at the time I needed the books on the top of each, which was Superman 75 third printing, and Adventures of Superman 498 fourth printing. I also had this crazy idea that maybe the Funeral for a Friend pack was full of the entire set of DC Universe logo printings! That would have been incredible, but I was wrong.
Both packs had never been opened but were disappointments. The books towards the top of the pack had either impact dents, or color rubbed off near the staples. About three books down, the books started to look pretty good structurally, but foxing started showing up on the back covers that worsened as you got farther down the stack. There was an extra piece of cardboard inserted for strength and the books against it had the worst foxing I have personally seen on modern books.
This 9.2 looked great structurally and only had one small spot of foxing about the diameter of a pencil on the back cover. I didn’t intend on submitting it but ended up throwing it in at the last minute while getting some other books ready. I sent it through CCS for pressing and dry cleaning and hoped for the best until I found a better copy.
When it came back 9.2, I was glad to have a relatively decent copy and I liked the fact that I saved it from the Collector’s Pack… a few more years in there would not have been good for it. I also learned something about these packs during this experience and that is that even if the corners look decent on the boxes, or even if they have never been opened, the odds are still pretty good that the books inside may not be the 9.8’s you are hoping for.
I included a picture of the Collector’s Pack in the second image slot. This picture is actually of a second set that I bought later, packaged together, and which contained Superman 75 fourth printing instead of the third... I had no better luck with this pack, but did have a little luck with a third pack I bought.
I then bought my first 9.6 raw for $9.00 from the same online Comic Book Shop that I had bought several other raw books from that are also now graded members of this set. I bought the last of this store’s raw stock of several books and wish I had gotten into trying to finish this set much earlier because I can only imagine what they had in stock for the last 25 plus years that went unnoticed.
When that book came back 9.6 it became the single highest graded at the time. I didn't want to seem ungrateful then but when I received that book back from CGC with no grader notes, I could not find anything that kept it from being a 9.8 (even with my loupe!). If it hadn't been the lone 9.6, and highest graded, I probably would have resubmitted it. I then decided to submit the copy from the second Collector's Pack and it also earned 9.6 after pressing. In the meantime, a third 9.6 popped up on eBay for $55.00 and I bought that one as well, giving me three 9.6's with the intent of examining them all and deciding which had the best chance at 9.8 with CPR if nothing else worked out.
While all of that was going on, I purchased the book you see here raw off of eBay; it was listed with the first, second, and third printings together and I got all three for $19.99 BIN! I submitted this book through CCS, as I do with all of my books, and here it is in glorious 9.8. I am very happy to have the first collection with all four printings of this book all in 9.8! I spent quite a bit of time, energy, and money to get this book added to my set in 9.8... I am super-happy to remove JLA 69 3rd from all of my searches!
With the addition of this book I only needed two more to have the entire set in 9.8 or above!
Update - the second 9.8 copy of this book to enter the census was also from my own submissions and is in my collection! That copy came from the third Doomsday! pack I bought and was in the same submission that I got the first ever 9.8 copy of Justice League America 70 fourth printing... nice!
|
|
|