Comic Book Grading Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 3 тра 2016
- Learn to grade comics the Comic Geek Speak way! Avid comics collector Brian "Pants" Christman and pro retailer Chris Eberle (WildPig Comics, Kenilworth, NJ) are on hand to introduce you to the inexact science of examining and evaluating old and new comics, with emphasis on the subtle differences between grades and the key defects that define those differences. Includes sample gradings of a big pile of comics, done on camera right before your eyes! Who needs CGC when you have CGS??
Comic Geek Speak (CGS) is a comics audio podcast that focuses on current mainstream and small-press comic books, featuring creator interviews, reviews, commentary on the comic book craft and industry, comic-related movie discussions and more. - Розваги
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My Dad in the late 70s grabbed a bunch of comics out of a dumpster next to a comic shop. 155 comics. That started my love of comic collecting. The covers, the relevance of characters. I love it all. Thank you guys for the vid.
I can't tell you guys how much I appreciate the time and effort you put into this for everyone.
Thanks.
I want to thank you guys for this really nice introductory video to comic book grading.
More grading tutorials please! Great dialog, think aloud, while actually analyzing the books. Guest was very detail oriented, and very descriptive on his process. EXCELLENT!
Very helpful. More! :)
Great job guys, I have been eagerly anticipating this video and does it deliver. Keep up the great work.
All I can say is wow, and Thank you. Definitely helpful, especially to one who is just starting over again with comic books. Excellent work gentlemen. Thank you once again.
Thanks guys for the time you took on this video it did help me a little bit in grading my books.
Such a helpful video. I've been trying to grade my comics on my own. I might be under grading them. I'm just learning how to grade. Keep up the awesome videos
I can not thank you guys enough for doing this particular video. It assures me that I am grading comics correctly. There has been a lot of problems with people buying from me on ebay claiming that I had greatly over graded a comic. I Believe in the Overstreet Price Guide Standards AND the owl card which I use religiously. The standards set by the three grading services are not anywhere near the Overstreet guidelines.
Never got back in to the comic book's after the 1970's? I now kind of wish I would of kept them? Great video by the way. Thanks
great info, thanks for sharing some insight. such a fine line between vg and f
Very helpful, especially when many just look at the cover and not the overall quality.
That was a great video guys! Very good examples. Nice info. I'm going to have to get the grading guide. I hope you guys in the future could answer the question on selling on eBay. How should I photograph my book? Should I underestimate the grade? Maybe not state a grade and just have pictures and let the buyer decide that's the price they want to pay?
No way that Green Lantern spine split is the allowed quarter inch for fine. FN- with that giant split
That "dimple" at the edge of Daredevil 8, at 1:09:16 is most likely a bundle crimp, from the era when comics arrived from the distributor bound in a bundle with wire or string. Sometimes it's just a crimp at the edge, but other times there can be deep rills running through the flat surfaces of the book, especially on the back side of the bottom comic in the bundle. Less frequent is a front cover with entrenched rills; maybe the comics with such defects appeared more obviously defective on the stands, and the comic-buyer selected the next one down instead. A crimp at the edge of this Daredevil seems relatively modest, to me.
this was a good video...thanks for shareing
Amazing!
Fantastic!!
I'm chrome casting this baby!
Love the videos
Great tutorial.
Great Info... Thanks!
Just out of curiosity, I have a First appearance of black widow book (TOS52) it's missing a good corner 1 inch + piece from the bottom left corner. Other wise it's complete, good staples, off-white pages. Is it still worth having graded professionally with that cover damage?
hi,if the staples are not in the center of the comic,they are not rusty but not in the middle of the two center pages,they are placed liitle left in the one of the two central pages?it's from the factory pressing undoubrtly.besides that the issue is a nearmint-vf issue.how would you grade this issue?
also i have to say that the stapples re shown in the backcover not in the spine.
Cool guys!
i took a Captain America #111 to a con to have Jim Steranko sign it. I used scotch tape on the mylar bag. you can guess what happened. i use the blue painters tape now
i bought a bronze age comic,it's nearly perfect BUT has a crease,which goes all over the pages,from the cover to the last page.what grade would you gave it?
I have a Amazing Spider-man 129 but I don't know the grade exactly ?
I been getting into hulk lately especially Dale Keown/Peter David run and it on some of the inks transfer to other pages because some panels has a lot of dark colors but isn't bad. Is that normal?
Thanks so much guys. I am a vintage and antique book collector/seller, but my brother-in-law has asked me to please, please try to help him with his comic book collection...starting with the 1st Conan the Barbarian. All that you shared was so very helpful. A specific condition that I did not see discussed is when there is a small (less than 1/4 inch) closed tear. In our case it is not at spine, but rather along outside edge. Can you help? Excepting this and utilizing the great info that you shared...I would guess Very Fine +. Thanks in advance. Dina
where did you get that black panther shirt
The way he drops his books back down in the bags, they won't be VF for long.
I give these guys props for trying but they need a lot of help. They are doing their best, but they are not close at all. Looking at the lower left back cover of Avengers #239 and thinking that that 5 inch crease or stacking crease is manufacturing?????? Wow. Also on the Firestorm #1, the writing on the DC bullet, if everything else is 9.8, it's a 9.8. The pages were white/OWW. For OW pages you don't drop the book to an 8.0 You can have a 9.8 with OW pages. It's not until you get to COW pages that the grade starts being affected. CGC doesn't downgrade for writing on vintage books because it was so common at the time. How Chris was handling the book up to the light was killing me. People at the drug store or grocery store wrote on the covers of new books for distribution purposes. How do I know. I was a CGC grader for 4 years. I watched 15 minutes of this video and had to shut it off. 90 minutes is nuts. This is how little people know about grading, that they thought this video was excellent. I am here to tell anyone who watches this video - JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING THEY TOLD YOU WAS WRONG AND IGNORE IT COMPLETELY. I will have my own series of videos coming once my non compete runs out. Excelsior and Nuff said!
I agree with you mostly..where are those videos though?
I'm tired of buying comics with grey shadows/smudge marks as lines on the cover, How hight do I have to get as a minimum on a comic to Not get grey smudge marks that looks like shadow lines on the front cover? It's happened to me 4 times.
Could someone please help with the title and real name of the grading book? I can find a book close to this, but not sure its the same. Live in Denmark, so its a bit more complicated and cannot just call or visit a store. Thanks!!!
you should of showed each grade
Just out of curiosity - what are those holes at the bottom of the pages of the copper books? I have some keys that have that same flaw but some that don't. I just assumed it was production related, but is it something else?
3 years late, if we are talking about he same thing, it should be holes created from drawing paper through the printers. You might see these on newspapers too.
Should I be re-sleeving my old comics?
What kind of bags are they, standard poly bags? Are they yellowing at all? If so I'd rebag in mylar. Mylar is considered the best long term archival material.
Letterman fan... I miss the NBC era shows.
Where's the blue light at?
So how can there be any Spiderman or Ff#1 let alone a 9.6 if that is less? There should be grading based on siler, gold ages etc. So nuts. That's a 9.0 ..but their are early action comics with higher grades.. how?
I have recently come into possession of a Wolverine 1, 2, 3 1988, the pages are crisp and the pages are white. How should i go about selling this. Bought it at a car boot sale for a £1 each and i could have cried i found this kind of find. But how on earth do i go about selling this? Also Ive been seeing varying prices, what should I expect. I am living in the UK
eBay, or there are facebook groups for it. Your best bet if you dont know the condition is to get it graded at CGC and once they return it to you graded sell the books.
Guys. Thanks for the video. I need t get my hands on a book that tells me all the issues AND volumes of these Super Heroes: CAP, DAREDEVIL, HULK, SUBMARINER, AVENGERS, FF, CONAN, THOR, IRON MAN.
does the over street guide do this. where can i get something like this. help me out
I think the Comic Book Database might be able to help you out.
www.comicbookdb.com/
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What was the name of that book/author with the pictures of ratings.
Just read
What was the name of that book I dont think you gave a name of the book
11:59 - - Aaaarrrggh!!
I found an old collection. How do I safely open the box? What do I need to know? Probably around 50 years old.
I'm tappin' out 1:07:19 ... almost made it! 😂😂 Now back to my Covid19 regularly scheduled program 😷👍🍺🍺🍺🚬
The video would be twice as good without the host’s constant inane comments.
They're nerds what you gonna expect
I don't believe that CGC would have been as liberal as you in their grading. A fine book with a split spine is "fine"?? I don't think so.
Seeing their faces always scares me
FN/VF on that Blue Beetle? I don't think so. This guy is somewhat knowledgeable, but he still doesn't know how to properly grade.
Make sure you speak to the microphone next time 🤦🏻♂️
True story- I learned about grading from an Overstreet guide I got as a kid. So, I wrote the grade in ballpoint pen on the covers of my comics!!!!!!!
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