From one to the other.

Who didn't see what CGC was about when they first began collecting graded comic books? Were you skeptical? Did you question their validity? Did you buy PGX? And then crack the slab and send the comic book in hoping to flip it with the premiere grading company's name on it? Did it grade higher or lower? But what happens when you take a competing grading company and compare something they graded against what CGC would grade it.

I sent in two books to get graded by a competing company. Both books were copies of Star Wars issue 1. One was a J. Scott Campbell variant and the other was Alex Ross. They were graded as a 9.2 and a 9.6. I graded them as a 9.4 and a 9.6...although I hoped the Alex Ross Variant would hit a 9.8. After looking the books over I saw what kept it from the higher grades, and I could accept that. If I get a book graded that I graded first, for example as a 9.4, then I am happy with one up or one down.

I decided to change these books over to CGC purely as an experiment, because I wanted to know. They returned higher. The Alex Ross, previously a 9.6, came back as a 9.8. I can accept that, but the J. Scott Campbell went from a 9.2 to a 9.8. How is that possible? Where does subjectivity end and ignorance begin?

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb