I have a raw, but doubt it’s 9.6.
Kudos on finding it in a CBCS slab!
I see the first number is 21, which means it’s the new casing too! Double bonus!
very happy with this. by far my biggest comic book purchase ever. and it presents like a 9.8, too.
now i just need to procure a high grade star wars #1 raw or cbcs 9.4-9.6 to complete my investment.
and yes for the price of both this book and star wars 1 9.6 i could have got UF4 in 9.8 but i prefer having multiple egg baskets.
I think the difference between 9.6s and 9.8s are often so negligible that giant price gaps are just not worth it unless you can hop on early. I’d rather put that money into an additional book, as you said.
Edit: I mean on any graded book, not just UF4 only.
yes particularly with all the examples of cgc 9.8s that look nothing like 9.8s (but still cost as much as 9.8s). i’ve already ranted enough about it but at this point buying a cgc 9.8, or any cgc’d book, is something i will never do unless in-person because i have zero confidence in the reliability of any cgc grade.
I have made the decision to never buy cgc 9.8s for the PC. I can’t imagine paying big money for a 9.8 grail that you really want and then you get it and it’s filled with spine ticks.
From my own personal experience I bought 2 Saga 1 9.8s many years back. It was for my own PC but when it came there was a giant quarter inch tear on the bottom spine. I was stunned, I couldn’t believe it came back as a 9.8. It was so ugly to look at that I eventually sold it. Made sure to take tons of pictures so buyer knew exactly what they were getting. But hey the “experts” say it’s a 9.8 so who are we to argue?
whoever is doing the grading there is either drunk or not an expert if they allow those defects in 9.8
Ive got a well over 100 slabs from the past 10 years, none of them look like that. I have no qualms sending books into CGC.
fair enough. i’d probably feel the same if i’d had a long, positive personal experience with them. i’m sure most people’s slabs look fine.
the problem for me is that even if only 1 in 5000 9.8s (or, honestly, 1 in ANY number of 9.8s) has even a single major defect of the kind which people here have described seeing and defects i’ve seen for myself, that would still be an unreasonably high percentage for such consequential mistakes to slip through. and i’ve heard several examples of gratuitous misgrading on this forum alone, in addition to the less severe but serious ones i’ve seen myself.
Whatever happened to Kingpin’s daughter?
She is in the Hudson River. See, Typhoid Mary didn’t want to be a step mom to a precocious kindergartener.
That’s a gorgeous cover. I think it’s up there as one of Hughes’s best covers and, perhaps, a bit underrated IMHO?
I have one in a CBCS 9.6, but I wouldn’t mind having one in 9.8 one day.
Lucky ducky!
9 months from submission to my door 
That said, very happy this is finally back to me.
Of all the MCU characters to date, I think Yondu (Michael Rooker) might literally be my favorite of all of them. After meeting him, I think he actually has the personality of Yondu in real life. He is that funny/off-the-wall. A real trip
CBCS, Alana. You’re moving up in the world, I see. 
. Beautiful book, btw. 
Alana knows to look for CBCS deals.
I was trying to snag a Batman 666 9.8 CBCS for the PC as I know idiots pay crazy more for a CGC…got outbid by $1.
Subsequently a few CGG copies sold for $60+ more hours later.
Recent sales Might have had something to do with a spoiler from a book coming out this Wednesday though.