Getting Your Comic Books Graded? What You Need to Consider When Submitting your books to CGC

In this video I go over a number of considerations if you're thinking about getting some of your comic books graded at CGC. I also go through some comic books that I'm considering getting graded and the reasons why or why not they should be graded. I show some of my CGC graded books and talk about older labels.
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0:00 Introduction
1:17 For What Purpose are you getting your comic book graded?
2:11 Comparing raw and graded comic books
3:20 Determining value of graded books through previous sales
3:55 Looking at eBay sales to compare raw vs. graded
5:22 Set a minimum value for books to be graded
6:06 Pricing tools, Overstreet, GPAnalysis, eBay
6:55 Only grade Key books
8:18 Ship as many books as you can, minimum 10
9:32 Get your books cleaned and pressed
11:27 Examples of books to get graded or not
11:36 Tales of Suspense 80
13:33 Spectacular Spider-man 1
14:29 Military Comics 17
15:19 Young Romance 150
16:50 Strange Tales 167
17:58 Get multiple opinions
19:22 Become a better grader
20:06 Examples of different CGC labels
22:11 Old CGC Modern Label
24:47 Labels with notes Night Nurse 3
25:56 CBCS graded book example
27:27 Final Thoughts

[@rohn-zc5sx]

thanks for the tips my friend 💯👍

[@UNCANNYGEORGE]

I think something people don’t consider is that $1 books jump to $100 books overnight, the only real guarantee we have is that the cost of grading will eventually increase so grading will never be as cheap as it is today. Also, new comics are in the best condition they will be in and are easiest to achieve the 9.8 at the cheapest price point so I don’t see it as a negative to submit new books. I’d definitely like to hear your opinion on CBCS graded books.

[@raph-retro-comics]

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. One thing I forgot to mention is pre-screening, and that's where getting new comic books pre-screened for 9.8s may be worthwhile. I think speculating on what is potentially the next new $100 book is risky, but there are certainly people who have made money doing this. I want CBCS to be more successful, and from the limited number of books I've seen, they grade just as well as CGC. Unfortunately, they sell for less than the equivalent CGC graded book - but this could be a very good thing for an astute collector looking for a good deal. Thanks for watching!

[@TravestyCollects]

Thank you for this video! It's nice seeing someone going over topics a lot of comic channels don't touch on. I just sent out some comics for grading and I think I made some poor choices but we live and learn. I up the great content!

[@raph-retro-comics]

I've certainly made my share of choices I've regretted, but it's all part of learning. At the end of the day, I love the hobby, the stories and the history, so it's all good.

[@BrianLCS]

Great overview of grading!

[@raph-retro-comics]

Thanks Brian! At some point I'd like to do a more in-depth series on grading comic books, but it's a pretty dense topic and I'm not sure if it'll be interesting enough. Thanks for watching!

[@Allan-ze5bn]

I've watched four or five of your videos now and I think it is criminal that you are below 200 subscribers. Great content!

[@raph-retro-comics]

I'm almost there! Thanks for watching and commenting. Happy that you're enjoying the content!

[@joeyxsolo]

Good info for newer collectors, man.

[@raph-retro-comics]

I hope it was helpful, thanks for watching!