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And even when CGC has graded a comic for you, it's important to know what that means Nobody should pay $3,207,852.00 for a comic, or even $32.00, without having a sense of what the info on the CGC label means, and how it was determined. This week, CGC Primary Grader  Matt Nelson, discusses the effect of staining on comic[...]

Are you a fan of CGC? What about The Walking Dead? If so, you're in luck! CGC and Skybound Entertainment have teamed up to create the first ever, full color character labels featuring fan favorites Rick, Michonne, Negan and Walker from the wildly popular Eisner winning series The label will debut at C2E2 Apirl 21-23[...]

And even when CGC has graded a comic for you, it's important to know what that means Nobody should pay $3,207,852.00 for a comic, or even $32.00, without having a sense of what the info on the CGC label means, and how it was determined. This week, CGC Primary Grader  Shawn Caffrey, discusses the effect of 'impact crunch' comic[...]

Archie #50 is still in high demand due to the depiction of Betty on the cover. A CGC 6.0 sold for $1,332.99 this year, while a raw copy that appeared to be in very good shape sold for $788.00 It's fair to say that graded will always net you more money Betty and Veronica #1 CGC[...]

 There are always some chart-busting sales during this period, and here's one example this year: A Detective Comics #33 CGC 8.0 has just sold from Metropolis Comics for a record $150,000  The comic book which has a November 1939 cover date and hit the newsstand at the end of September, shows Batman's origin for the[...]

And even when CGC has graded a comic for you, it's important to know what that means Nobody should pay $3,207,852.00 for a comic, or even $32.00, without having a sense of what the info on the CGC label means, and how it was determined. This week, CGC Primary Grader  Matt Nelson, discusses the impact of stamps on comic book[...]

And even when CGC has graded a comic for you, it's important to know what that means Nobody should pay $3,207,852.00 for a comic, or even $32.00, without having a sense of what the info on the CGC label means, and how it was determined. This week, CGC Primary Grader  Matt Nelson, discusses the impact of rusty staples on[...]

And even when CGC has graded a comic for you, it's important to know what that means Nobody should pay $3,207,852.00 for a comic, or even $32.00, without having a sense of what the info on the CGC label means, and how it was determined. This week, CGC Primary Grader  Matt Nelson, discusses the impact of tape on comic[...]

In today's episode, BL and Henn discuss Stranger Things and other nerdy TV shows, from the comfort of Henn's storage unit! We go into Riverdale, and a

In today's episode, BL and Henn talk about the CGC Signature Series, the best way to preserve your signed comics and magazines. Today's question is: List everyone who has ever been Batgirl in the comic series (all 70+ years of it)! Hint: Barbara Gordon isn't the only one to wear that cowl. If you're not familiar with[...]

And even when CGC has graded a comic for you, it's important to know what that means Nobody should pay $3,207,852.00 for a comic, or even $32.00, without having a sense of what the info on the CGC label means, and how it was determined. This week, CGC Primary Grader  Paul Litch, discusses tanning on comic book grading. This[...]

And even when CGC has graded a comic for you, it's important to know what that means Nobody should pay $3,207,852.00 for a comic, or even $32.00, without having a sense of what the info on the CGC label means, and how it was determined. This week, CGC Primary Grader  Shawn Caffrey, discusses the impact of fingerprints on[...]

And even when CGC has graded a comic for you, it's important to know what that means Nobody should pay $3,207,852.00 for a comic, or even $32.00, without having a sense of what the info on the CGC label means, and how it was determined. That's something that has typically been difficult to explain, even on[...]

Valiant has unveiled a new custom CGC label featuring the characters from the Future Of Valiant The label is drawn by Diego Bernard and is limited to only 500 pieces starting at the Baltimore Comic Con on September 2nd The label will be an add-on feature when encapsulating any Valiant title The cost of the[...]

The folks from Valiant including writer Robert Venditti, publisher Fred Pierce and CEO Dinesh Shamdasani are at the plant along with representatives of CGC and Geppi's Entertainment Museum to offically pull the 1 millionth copy of the press. The copy will then be graded and encapsulated by CGC and taken to the Baltimore Comic Con for[...]

You want to share them. When William Christensen told me about seeing the new CGC Holder — and was genuinely pretty excited about it, which caught my attention because that guy has been collecting vintage comics since about age 6 and is not an easy person to impress — well, I was intrigued, sure… but I still had[...]

I'm the biggest vintage comic book geek you can possibly imagine, so when my friends at CGC offered to let me take a look at their new graded comic holder a while back, I jumped at the chance Amazingly, I was the first person outside of the company to see it, and I've been dying[...]

He bought his copy of The Walking Dead #1 from Hi Di Ho Comics in Santa Monica on the day of its release, Oct 8th, 2003, and got his buddy Robert Kirkman to sign it. And now, slabbed by CGC in 9.6 condition, he is selling it on eBay Why? This is my personal copy of TWD #1[...]

Comic Mint is a new service for comic book collectors, specialising in selling people's comic books as an alternative to eBay. But how does it work? I

Valiant has unveiled more of their CGC Universal Grade variant covers We saw the Faith one announced a while back but these others are new and pretty cool as the characters realize where they are and you have to feel sorry for the Eternal Warrior only getting a 3.0 The covers are all by Clayton[...]

CGC is the leading comic book collector grading and slabbing service Naturally, where there is a market originator and leder, there will be competition Such as PGX, which has come under controversy in the past. Well, here's a new one A comic creator is claiming he bought a Fantastic Four comic in PGX 7.5 slabbed condition for[...]

CGC has been the go to for preserving comics for over 15 years, and now music lovers can rejoice that the same methods and consistency of grading can be brought to performance ephemera, particularly music posters and handbills in this new development for the company. CGC says: The expansion enables collectors of these rare pieces, which promoted[...]

It also marks a turn toward what Moore views as science fiction in the Crossed universe with Crossed +100. Without further ado, Avatar Press have prepared with careful oversight two ways in which to make a top notch contribution to your pristine collections, firstly a boxed set containing all the covers to #1 of Crossed plus[...]

And prospered. And now he has bid $1.65 million dollars for a copy of Action Comics #1 in CGC 9.0 condition, currently on eBay. That bid lasted for eight hours until another bidder plumped down $1.7 million Too rich for Geppi's blood It now stands at over $2 million. Will he have another bid before the auction ends? [...]

  Heritage Auctions has sold a copy of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #12 in 9.6 CGC condition for $6572.50. Only one copy of this edition was produced, with a cover by Sara Richard, entitled "The 1 Million Edition – Only Copy Produced", to celebrate the millionth printed edition of a My Little Pony comic from IDW[...]

Steve Borock was the President of comics slabbing and grading company CGC He was also their primary grader He left CGC to work for Heritage Auctions in 2008, specialising in their handling of valuable comic books including those of Don & Maggie Thompson, and worked on the board of comics veteran charity, HERO. On June 3rd, his[...]

Several other of the recovered comics in question  (including an Action Comics #1 CGC 3.0 that just hammered for $388,375) are selling at Heritage Auctions… Amazingly, the drama didn't end with Chiofalo's arrest and the recovery of the comics  Subsequently, an investigator working for Harris County, TX –where the case is being prosecuted — was himself arrested for allegedly taking[...]

I felt less guilty when I saw people flip them for even more on  eBay a few months later. Will that happen this time? During Wondercon Saturday, Dynamic Forces' Daily Special is a random CGC graded 9.8 Spider-Man comic, a Spider-Man comic signed by a top comics creator and another Spider-Man comic sketch of Spider-man, Venom, or Carnage by…[...]

CGC has become an integral part of the comic collecting business today A service that gives numerical values to the condition of a comic book from .5 to 10.0, then encases them in a transparent slab, preserving their condition as graded It gives buyers, especially remote ones, confidence in the condition of a comic book[...]

I'm not sure exactly how that works… another with a crease in the spine sold for $676… and this seems a lot worse than that. Here's how it is described… According to the CGC census, over 1800 copies of THE WALKING DEAD #1 (1st print) have been graded as of 2/10/2014 and this is the only one[...]