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Several other of the recovered comics in question  (including an Action Comics #1 CGC 3.0 that just hammered for $388,375) are selling at Heritage Auctions… Amazingly, the drama didn't end with Chiofalo's arrest and the recovery of the comics  Subsequently, an investigator working for Harris County, TX –where the case is being prosecuted — was himself arrested for allegedly taking[...]

I felt less guilty when I saw people flip them for even more on  eBay a few months later. Will that happen this time? During Wondercon Saturday, Dynamic Forces' Daily Special is a random CGC graded 9.8 Spider-Man comic, a Spider-Man comic signed by a top comics creator and another Spider-Man comic sketch of Spider-man, Venom, or Carnage by…[...]

CGC has become an integral part of the comic collecting business today A service that gives numerical values to the condition of a comic book from .5 to 10.0, then encases them in a transparent slab, preserving their condition as graded It gives buyers, especially remote ones, confidence in the condition of a comic book[...]

I'm not sure exactly how that works… another with a crease in the spine sold for $676… and this seems a lot worse than that. Here's how it is described… According to the CGC census, over 1800 copies of THE WALKING DEAD #1 (1st print) have been graded as of 2/10/2014 and this is the only one[...]

Some people really really want a copy of The Walking Dead #1 and the condition is immaterial. Checking the CGC census, there is only one copy at a 0.5 grade that has been slabbed And nothing else below a 2.5. But it seems that even this might be worth the effort, as that copy is now selling[...]

    From Rob Liefeld's table in Artist's Alley at New York Comic Con, he's charging $10 to sign copies of New Mutants and X-Force, $20 for the first appearance of Cable and Deadpool, and $20 for CGC's copies Of course, considering signed copies go for the likes of this, I'd say that's pretty fair, wouldn't you? [...]

They also have a Batman #1 in CGC 9.2 condition as well, with its first appearance of The Joker and Catwoman… and for that, the sky is the limit Earlier this year, a similarly graded copy went for $850,000…   Heritage Auctions are to put up for auction the original Frank Miller inked artwork for the[...]

For when slabbing is just not enough... ComicLock® displays comics, slabbed or otherwise, in a display case with mounted brackets, with a lock system and

Bleeding Cool being published by Avatar, me writing myself into the Top 100 Power List, I just blaze straight through. Which is why I was delighted to see the comic book grading company CGC doing similar By buying up the comic book restoration company, Classics Incorporated and moving them in house And allowing people to use[...]

Frazer Brown writes for Bleeding Cool; "Walking Dead is hot right now, I'll flip some issue ones and make a killing" So spoke I, to my patient Fiancée Cassie, and an epic journey began that would take me from my apartment in the UK to the foyer of CGC in the USA… This is a step-by-step account of[...]

Here's the listing. Action Comics #1 rated 8.5 by CGC, linked to a recorded, rated version. Located in Germany but only selling to Americans. A zero rating on eBay for the seller. And not being sold through a professional specialist auction house. So… Will you take the risk? Hope not This very copy of the comic did sell for $1,500,000 back in[...]

Which has that all-important official veneer. And for the real obsessives amongst you, there are the Joseph Linsner CGC 9.8 graded covers for issues 0 and 1 of the series, restricted to stores who ordered 100 copies of the comics The rest of the covers, as always, destroyed…   For those of you who may have enjoyed[...]

It is available, slabbed at CGC 9.8, to all retailers who ordered a very large quantity of the standard comic There are, as a result, only fifty copies, all others from the print run have been destroyed. This is what they did last time… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huwu8cN3RPY[/youtube]   [...]

To follow up on the Joe Jusko Valen The Outcast covers, and Arthur Suydam's Fanboys Vs Zombies, here is the Michael Golden CGC 9.8 cover for Sam Humphries' Higher Earth. And, yes, retailers will have to order a hundred copies to get one… This is the latest in a series of promotional covers created by Boom![...]

The conditions vary, from a CGC 3.0 Action Comics, to the CGC 8.5 Batman. Mentioning the comics to a co-worker months later, specifically the cover of Captain America, saw the family rush to a Price Guide, and their heads started reeling. So up for auction today from Heritage, the "Billy Wright" collection, named after its original owner, is expected[...]

Boom's 9.8 CGC Joe Jusko retailer variants for Valen The Outcast have seemed to pay off for the company Retailers had to order a stack of copies, but then could sell off the variants for $200 a pop. And now Boom are doing it all again for the new Sam Humphries comic Fanboys Vs Zombies And[...]

In an auction ending late on Boxing Day, despite multiple bidders and 38 bids, a CGC 9.8 copy, with off-white to white pages, of Bullseye's first appearance failed to crack $1,000, closing at $976 This is the first sale out of fourteen recorded at CGC 9.8 to fail to crack that mark. How much of a[...]

It's been a great month for those looking to pick up an Amazing Spider-Man #129, the first appearance of the Punisher, as the price has dropped to the lowest they have ever been in recorded CGC sales at CGC 9.8. It is not as if this is an incredibly rare book anymore, with 557 copies graded[...]

Issue #9 in CGC 5.0 sold for just $10.50, and it is the only CGC-graded copy sold Issue #12, graded 8.0 by CGC, sold for only $21.50 and, again, is the only CGC-graded copy with a recorded sale. This pattern repeated itself with multiple issues: #14, CGC 7.5, $17.50 #16, CGC 5.0, $15.50 #17, CGC 8.5, $17 #19, CGC 9.0,[...]

  Well, the bidding on Friday night's auction for a CGC 9.8 copy of Chew #1 appears to fit that mold. This copy has the signatures of writer John Layman and artist Rob Guillory making it the ultimate authenticated edition. How big was the price tag on this delectable morsel?  Menu price was market value at $909.97. The previous[...]

Friday night's auction was for a CGC-graded 5.5, closing at $2,822 There had been a significant price increase for copies graded in 5.5 over the last two years, making this sale the cheapest in this grade in three years, but still a dramatic increase over where the price had been prior to 2009. Finding high-grade copies[...]

Here are the highlights for the ones that have sold so far today. We start our report tonight with Marvel Mystery Comics #6, with a gorgeous copy rated CGC 9.2 selling tonight for $20,000 This was easily the best condition copy to go up for sale in a public venue in years, with the next closest[...]

By the end of the day today, one of the most impressive Superman collections assembled in one auction will close, with the highlight being an much discussed Action Comics #1, graded 9.0 by CGC, making it the highest graded copy to go up for sale In March of last year, a CGC 8.5 copy sold[...]

Sales of graded issues of Wings Comics have been extremely rare, and this purchase of a CGC 8.5 copy is the only recorded sale of a graded copy of #56 At $158.41, that's a nice bargain on what is certainly a hard series to find in high grades. Another nice bargain from this past week in[...]

It also allowed me to criticize some creators and projects that did fit that mold. There was one thing though that I could never, ever criticize: CGC, and books graded by them. Now, I completely understand the idea behind CGC, and I certainly would slab any high-grade Silver Age and Golden Age keys if I had them[...]

[Update: See CGC scan and auction listing below] Questions remained: Who now owns the book?  And exactly what condition is it in after being missing for a decade and found in a storage locker? As news broke of the recovery in April, Cage told ABC News that he would seek to have the comic returned to him[...]