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X-Force 8
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COMIC DETAILS
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Comic Description:
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X-Force 8
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Grade:
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9.8
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Page Quality:
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WHITE
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Certification #:
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0214496008
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Owner:
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kaholo1256
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SET DETAILS
Owner's Description
Published: February 2000
KEY ISSUE: Yep, First Wild Pack Appearance, even if it is in a flashback
Fabian Nicieza & Rob Liefeld story
Rob Liefeld & Mark Mignola Art
Rob Liefeld Cover
This one is the first OAK of the bunch. Only mine for now has ever been graded and I am proud to say this was based off my very own submission back in June. I had picked up one heck of an amazing looking copy at Austin Books and Comics just off a whim in the .99 cent drawer and a few months later shipped with the single graded book in this Series as a 9.8.
Story Title: Flashed Before My Eyes
SUMMARY:
Sauron gloats about killing Sam. Boom Boom's yelling causes Cable to have a flashback. We're given a glimpse of Cable's past for almost the rest of the issue. He's the leader of a team called Wild Pack. They're invading a Hydra research facility in search of a stolen component. After dispatching the goons, they get inside the lab. Hammer accidentally triggers a fail-safe and Baron von Strucker's image appears everywhere. He threatens to kill them so they quickly retrieve the device and body slide out of there. It turns out that they were working for A.I.M. Later on, the team goes their separate ways. Cable ends up time sliding into the future where he's actually from. He finds out from his computer, Professor, that there's a new possible awakening. The name of the possible High Lord, Sam Guthrie. Cable decides it is his duty to train Cannonball and heads back in time, six months to a year before his Awakening. Back in the present, Sam isn't waking up. Cable wonders if he truly was a High Lord. He vents his anger on Sauron, by blowing him away.
PERSONAL COMMENTS:
As mentioned above this was a cool one to say I had graded on my own and one of my first CGC send off’s of an older comic to send and retain the 9.8 status. Although now I do plan to start sending more from this series I will most likely go the cautious route of pre-grading so that I don’t end up with a ton of 9.4’s and 9.6’s for which I am trying to avoid.
Edit: As of today, December 15th 2013 - mine is no longer the OAK of the group with a total of 8 graded to include mine since then. I guess if anything its cool to know mine was the first ever graded. Now if I could only get it signed by Rob and get back that OAKedness...
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