Many misunderstand what a comic in Near mint means. It is the rarest of comics, of 1000 that come into the store from the silver age only 2 or 3 are truly near mint, at least in the manner that the grade...
The Challenge: I am often disappointed when I win an auction for a near-mint comic, wait in anticipation and when the package arrives, I find the comic is damaged. It is not that I was sent a poor quality...
CGC/PGX/slabbed books have revolutionized comic book collecting over the past few years. At any time, there are thousands of CGC-slabbed and hundreds of PGX-slabbed books on eBay. The proliferation of these...
One of the things that I am often asked is how will CGC Grade book that have printing defects. CGC is very tight lipped about their exact grading standards, perhaps in fear of competition. PGX has not really...
Not every comic is worth a lot of money. The characters, condition, age, rarity and importance and the main keys. Characters Mainstream characters (think about the characters that have had blockbuster...
Comic Book Grading Scale This is a brief overview of the Grading Scale, including a side by side comparison between the Traditional scale, and the Ten Point scale. It is not meant to be all inclusive, or to...