Verified Grade

10/09/2024

thedisputedterritory.com/shop

10 of the 30 available now on our site. $50 for the complete box set. White cards outnumber the black cards 2/1. To guarantee each color, you have to buy 2 boxes. Grades vary. They are guaranteed 9.0 or better. Getting higher than a 9.0 is luck of the draw.

09/24/2024

My full Cover for The Disputed: Mortimar Issue 2. The splash foil box sets are numbered with COAs. Books and cards with matching numbers in the sets.

Available for Pre-Sale at:
https://www.thedisputedterritory.com/shop

These will not ship until after NYCC.

06/10/2024

Huge thank you to the entire Big Time Collectibles BTC team! FAN EXPO Dallas was a huge success. My first con as a badged guest. Thrilled with The Disputed and The Disputed: Mortimar. Such an incredible lineup of cover artists: Mico Suayan, Ken R Salinas, Ivan Tao, John Giang, David Sanchez, Bjorn Barends, Humam, and Kevin Tolibao.

Sitting with Mico, Ken and Garrett Gunn was an absolute riot. The three of us were on our best behavior.

Our exclusives with ComicTom101, Davis Rider, and Joseph Wehby turned out fire, as well. A thank you to each for participating. More good things to come.

We've got another Episode 3 exclusive coming. Just waiting on that announcement. Also, the Episode 3 cover A will officially launch this week.

We've got a few of the limited to 15 specialty books. They're better than metals. Those will be posted to the site soon.

Finally, huge thank you to all of you that supported our story. The response was overwhelming. My team has worked really really hard for several years now to have something like this present itself. I am nothing without such an incredible network of friends. I barely got to see my Scott's Collectables peeps. The weekend was gone in a flash. I'm beat, but I'm back at it already. CGC submissions are sent. Will start getting online orders prepped today. Cards will be submitted to Verified Grade tomorrow.

04/29/2024

Huge thanks to Mico Suayan and Big Time Collectibles for the three cover release from MegaCon to Whatnot Con and finally C2E2. The birth of the shapeshifter, Mortimar... Who better to create this tribute? We released three versions during this stretch. The heavy stock at Mega. The silver foil to BTC Gold. Finally, the amazing spot foil sets at WNCon and Chicago. There are a few remaining from my portion of the print run.

This cover is now retired. Come for the cover, stay for the story.

Stay in touch with thedisputedterritory.com and verifiedgrade.com for a final few chances to grab these at retail pricing.

Let us know what you think of the extended release and the top flight ComicShield cards that accompanied the spot foil sets.

Some drop multiple covers at the same time. We held back the foils, and dropped across multiple channels, keeping things limited all the way through. Grateful for the support on this project.

04/24/2024

I'll be at this weekend, bouncing around to a number of booths.

The Scott Prather C2E2 Foil exclusive will be available at booth 1709.

Some of our ComicShield work will be on display in Artist Alley T10 on the end.

The Disputed has some cool box sets remaining and available at the Big Time Collectibles / booth #1637.

My friends at MBartist are going to be at booth 1757. Optimus Prime said I'll get to meet Steven Ahola in person finally. ComicShield has some amazing things coming up for that team. Not to mention a number of Disputed covers from that stable of artists.

Of course, I'll be spending time with my friends at Scott's Collectables. We've got some really great stuff in the works.

I'll be around to sign/remarque/get grading done. All Times TBD.

04/22/2024

Available now at thedisputedterritory.com/shop and verifiedgrade.com/shop are these Tyler Kirkham crazy box sets. We have six available at Verified Grade, and a few on my The Disputed website. Listed at the same price point.

The twist is every box has a signed card or a perfect 10 card. They are randomly inserted.

These bundles include:

The Tyler Kirkham Verified Grade Exclusive Color with Hat Heavy Stock
The Tyler Kirkham Epic Exclusive White Heavy Stock
The Tyler Kirkham Epic Exclusive Foil

A signed and graded Certificate of Authenticity.
All four spot foil Verified Grade cards!

A customer ComicShield container.
These will be shipped in SlabShield containers for ultra security shipping.

The internals are The Disputed number one, created by Michael Hinson with interior art by Lip Wei Chang.

04/20/2024

Added some of my artist/printer proof copies of The Disputed to the website www.thedisputedterritory.com/shop today. These are very limited. Even got one of those Mico Spot Foil books back from grading blue label CGC 9.8. Will be adding much more in the weeks ahead.

04/02/2024

On April 11, I'll be joining my friends at Big Time Collectibles online at the convention at 8PM CST.

As part of that event, we are releasing some of the special box sets early. has 200 of these total. Do not wait for C2E2! This is an absolutely killer project, and we'll be shooting some videos, so you can see just how cool this looks.

ComicShield is providing a matching specialty card and box for every single book. We are offering signatures/remarques live on the stream. We will have a little Q&A session about this character, the obvious tribute, and where this is heading. Verified Grade is offering signature series grading. BTC is offering CGC grading on the books, which are all in stellar condition.

If you thought the MegaCon card stock cover was a hit... this is a hit and a steal. This is the LAST version of this cover. It's printed on foil stock with a soft touch matte film, with spot varnish and foil. Verified will be offering the full treatment box sets on Whatnot in the weeks ahead, but those are in short supply.

03/30/2024

There's less than 24 hours remaining, and still some really solid finds in here. http://kck.st/4cpS5Wi

The $7,500 mark gets everyone a free character card. Not too far off now.

Incredibly grateful for the support thus far. Just one backer away from cracking 50. I'm humbled by your support, and excited to deliver some products that look absolutely stellar.

Verified Graded cards produced by ComicShield are going to be absolutely beautiful. Another shout out to Mico Suayan, Dan Quintana, Tyler Kirkham, Stan Yak, Scott Prather, and Lipwei Chang for everything they've delivered to this project.

The Disputed is off to a blazing start to the year with some really awesome things happening.

03/25/2024

Check out this sick Dan Quintana cover. I've got the trade dress cover available now on our . http://kck.st/4cpS5Wi

The card/book combo is available as a stand-alone tier, but you can grab each one as an add-on to another tier. This trade dress book will be produced on heavy card stock. The card will be soft touch with a splash of spot gloss on foil.

So which character from the story is this? More to come... more to come. It'll all make sense. For now, let's just sit back an admire this beautiful piece of artwork.

Oh, and if we crack $7500, everyone will receive a raw character card. Please share this campaign using the link above. More backers, more cool stuff.

03/24/2024

Did you miss out on the initial drops? I've got limited edition Artist Proofs/Printer Proofs available now as add-ons to any physical purchase on my kickstarter. You might also find a version here that isn't available anywhere else.

Any physical purchase also enters you to win Foil Mico Suayan The Disputed #1. That drawing will be held on the Verified Grade Whatnot show on April 4.

All of these add-ons come with a ComicShield custom Certificate of Authenticity card, and those can be upgraded to Grade with matching custom boxes.

I'll be the one checking these off the press.

A Supernatural Saga. American Manga.

03/14/2024

Off to an awesome start. I'm so grateful. THANK YOU ALL! We've still got two more covers to unveil. Plus, some stretch goals to announce, as well. Cheers!