Collecting and Certifying Valuable Comic Books

In this special edition of The Stack Pete talks with Steven Borock and Paul Litch of the CGC (Certified Guarantee Company). Steven and Paul explain the process the CGC goes through in grading comics, and what the grades mean. Then Steven blows Pete away with his impressive hollywood clientele list as well as their most valuable comics ever graded. This episode is a must see for all comic book collectors!

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[daddyphatsack]

ponytails in the year 2008......lol

[hombrearena]

The point is that even honest sellers overgrade horribly, especially on ebay. For items where the difference between F/VF and VF- is hundreds of dollars, it's well worth having the third party grade and seal!

[Comickid1000]

It's funny, whenever one of my friends try to sell a comic, they might raise it from vf to nm or nm to m, yet when they are buying, they start saying that the comic being sold has been horribly exxagerated in price

[SUPERTHOMASLOGON]

I HAVE PURCHASED SOME ON EBAY SELLER SAID NM/MT CAME IN MAIL LIKE FINE TO VF/NM WAY OFF, MOST PEOPLE DO NOT HOW TO GRADE COMICS CONSISTENTLY , WE KNOW GRADINGS ARE SUBJECTIVE, BUT GRADES SHOULD NOT BE OFF LIKE MORE THAN TWO FULL GRADES.

[cha5]

@Hoshang2 "Slabbing" is a term for what the CGC does to comics when they grade them, basically sealing them in a plastic holder like what you see on this video.

Just for myself it doesn't appeal to me all that much mainly because I like to read my back issues and I'm not obsessive about keeping them sealed away like when I had Joe Kubert sign my copy of Flash Comics 62 (his first Hawkman story) and Al Jaffee sign my Krazy Komics 5 at the last NYCC a few days ago.

[chromiumcomics]

@Hoshang2 Not at all...that's Steve Borock who is one of the nicest, kindest people in the hobby. He knows more about comics than probably anybody out there and is always ready and willing to help a novice collector.

[Hoshang2]

@cha5 whats slabbing?

[Hoshang2]

The ponytail guy seems like an arrogant asshole

[3443bh]

Great video. Thank you for the explanation. Now, I'm ready to submit my comics.

[whyeff21]

Whats the difference between Blue and Yellow CGC Labels and the tinted color of the cases themselves. (ie some cases are clear, some are blue tinted)

[MadeAugust18th]

awesome i need to do this, ya hear me?

[ThePatheticClub]

Thanks Pete!