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...
This guide is intended to assist those in purchasing CGC graded comics versus ungraded comics. First of all I would like to share with ebayers my level of experience with CGC. I have submitted somewhere in the...
The art of comic book collecting has been revolutionized in recent years by the advent of third-party,professional grading services.The service was pioneered by current market leader Comics Guaranty, LLC (more...
Do you collect comics for fun or profit? Well if you're like most collectors, it's a little of both. Regardless, if you think that one day you may sell some or all of your comics (and it seems many of us do)...
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...
Professional comic book grading and preservation has been around for less than a decade, but since being introduced in early 2000, it has revolutionized the way collectors buy, sell and protect their comic...
VARIANTS vs. RRPs Well I am sure that anyone that has been following Modern Comics lately is well aware of the spate of variants available from mainly DC and Marvel. Some of DC's most widely traded and rare...
It's easy to get confused about all the different graded comics out there, so I'm writing this guide to help out anyone who is as confused as I was when I first started collecting comic books. To start with,...
Who is THE HUMAN FLY? A comic book hero?An insect-like, "b-list"Spider-Man villain? Simply a death defying thrill-seeker?Perhaps even an actual stuntman?Though the name "The Human Fly" can identify numerous...
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...
