- CGC Graded Comics Establish a Grading Standard: Their expert
grading team has been able to establish a consistent market
standard that can be widely trusted.
- Expert Restoration Check: Part of the CGC expert grading team's
review of your comic book is to perform a thorough restoration
check.
- Increase Confidence Among Buyers and Sellers: With a CGC comics
graded book, buyers will know what they're getting and may
become more confident and aggressive bidders. Sellers can be
more confident they're getting paid a fair price for their book's
condition.
- Holder Can Be Safely Opened: Their holder is designed to allow
optimal visibility of the comic book and can be safely opened for
comic book removal. The comic will then need re-certification at a
reduced price.
- Better Protection for Comic Books: The CGC comics holder is made
of state-of-the-art materials and is designed to meet the needs and
demands of comic book collectors.
Now there is a new kid on the block
Well, it appears there is another third-party comic book grading
company trying to establish credibility in the comic book industry. PGX
Comics currently provides the same services as CGC, but their
slabbing and grading prices and turn around times are advertised to be
better.
PGX was created to meet the ever-growing demand for professional
comic book grading. They advertise providing the best value available
for comic book enthusiasts eager to have their comics graded and
certified. Comics can be bought and sold with far greater confidence
than comics that are not certified. This makes it far easier to buy and
sell comics over the Internet, at conventions, in comic book stores,
and so on. If you are looking to have your comics certified by an
experienced grading company, then PGX may be worthwhile to
consider.
The following figures will give a side by side comparison of fees and
turn around time of both CGC Comics and PGX (boy acronyms sure abound
don’t they):


Quite probably, many comic book collectors have yet to hear of PGX
Comics. They are not yet the household word CGC Comics is. It may
be worth your time to consider them for your slabbing and grading
needs. PGX may become a force to reckon with in the future. Only
time will tell.
And Now, CGC Comics at eBay!
Wow! Look what I figured out how to do for you. You may or may not be familiar with all that is available on eBay. But now, I have figured out how to display some of the CGC certified merchandise available there. The table below gives you some of the items available or you can click on through with the link in the bottom left hand corner to see all items available.
If you have never registered at eBay, you may want to take a minute to do that so you can participate in all the auctions that may interest you. Good luck and have fun at eBay!
To Certify or Not to Certify!
Well for those of you who think CGC Comics is not worth the price or is a
scam, I have found some excerpts of an article by Michael Berlowe
who tends to agree with you. The article was entitled “Infinte Comic
Crisis”:
“Currently, there is a very sad, malevolent presence in the comic
collecting world, and once again, the comic collector will pay the price.
To get right to the point, it is this writer’s opinion that the C.G.C. is a
S.C.A.M.!
I always believed that half of the fun in comic collecting is evaluating
and grading your comics, and the other half was reading them. When
the CGC slabs a comic you can no longer do either…
…I refuse to send books or even buy books that have been slabbed. I
recently saw a copy of Spawn #1 with a CGC grade of 10.0 get a
winning bid on an ebay auction of $900. I just don’t get it. I envision a
bidder at home who has had one too many beers, thinking.... "what
can I waste my money on today?”…
I truly understand that the market is supply and demand, and in an
auction, the market determines the price. But the fundamental
problem here is, who is the winner and who is the loser? Obviously the
CGC is making some good money from this service (and I am not
faulting them for that, they are being paid for a legitimate service that
does take skill and time). The loser however, is definitely the
consumer. They are paying way too much money for books that are
not worth the value (an over inflated market). Did we not learn
anything from the Valiant era? Remember that? A bunch of books that
were "Hot" and everybody wanted them, and the price was so over
inflated, that when the market dropped, you could here the thud in the
arctic regions of the planet. With CGC graded books, we are no longer
comic collectors, just investors in wall art!”
Toons and Beyond Comic store
http://myweb.cableone.net/tbeyond/cgc.html
Michael Berlowe
Final Thoughts
Regardless of the controversy of CCG comics, it appears that they are
here to stay. I would recommend that every serious comic book
collector have at least a few in their collection. I guess I will have to
look into acquiring a few myself. I may then have to go down to my
local bank and check into the possibility of getting a security box. Ha
ha, I can only dream.
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