How to Grade Condition of Comic Books

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Let me talk about grading your comic books; first of all; because you really need to know that in this case; Expert Villagers, condition is also very important. Comic book junkies are freaks about condition; let me just tell you. If it isn't perfect, they don't want it; unless it's some really, really rare version that they can't afford. There's a lot of great resources out there for comic books. The monthly comic book guide is called the wizard, and it's a magazine that kind of looks like this, but this is the comic buyer's guide, and both of these will give you the monthly update in terms of what your comic books are worth, and they even go so far as to tell you which comic...it's kind of like the stock market of comic book prices. It will tell you which comic book went up in demand, which comic book went down in demand, alongside the price of the comic book; which is pretty amazing. Comic book junkie's follow this like a religion. It's pretty darn amazing. Let me talk to you about grading. The grading is something called the Overstreet Price Guide, and that's pretty much the universal grading system, and it's a big fat book, and it comes out once a year. The Overstreet people also provide a grading service where they will grade your comics. You pay to have them graded. Not only they do; I'm not sure Overstreet does, but in their Overstreet Directory, they have the names of the people that do grade the comic books, and that makes the comic books like commodities. In looking at your comic books, they come in different grades; depending on the flaws, or lack of flaws that they have. They start, at the top is mint. Believe it or not, it goes near mint, and almost mint, and very mint, and I'm exaggerating, but very good, good, almost good, poor, sucks; no, I made that one up, but fair, then poor. Those are based on what to look for in terms of our criteria for grading, and there are very specific items to look at; aside from just overall condition; when you are valuing and pricing a comic book for resale, and you have to be sure that if you're maybe going to sell something on eBay, you have to be very conservative in your analysis, because you don't want to disappoint anyone; because someone may not assume that your grading was quite right.

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