Explain to me exactly what the qualified lable does?

[drotto]

I get it we have a green label now that is issued to comics that have basically one major flaw, to what would otherwise be a much higher rated book. So my questions are...

 

1. when is this green label issued?

2. does CGC or the submitter decide if it is a green?

3. How does green affect value?

4. is a green always less desirable than a blue?

[BlowUpTheMoon]

CGC Label Descriptions

[Mystafo]

It rests quietly in a plastic holder above a book which has received a qualified grade.....exactly.

[mschmidt]

I get it we have a green label now that is issued to comics that have basically one major flaw, to what would otherwise be a much higher rated book. So my questions are...

 

1. when is this green label issued?

2. does CGC or the submitter decide if it is a green?

3. How does green affect value?

4. is a green always less desirable than a blue?

 

1. See BlowUpTheMoon's link

 

2. CGC does. For a book that would otherwise go in a green label, you can ask to have it put in a blue label slab instead with the defect being treated as grade-dropping.

 

3) It lowers it significantly (yes, there are a couple of exceptions, but, in general, green label books are a PITA to sell)

 

4) In general, yes. Again - there are exceptions where the green label grade is so much higher than the blue label grade, that it's either a wash or the green label copy will command a higher price, but for equal books, people will always choose the blue label.

 

I have to ask - what do you mean we have a "green label now"? The green label has been around for a decade :shrug:

[W16227]

The green--- typically is a much higher grade than what the book would be in blue.

 

Examples of what gets a green -

 

Hulk 181 missing a value stamp. The value stamp makes the book incomplete - but does not affect the story. So instead of a .5 incomplete - the book is slabbed with green label at the grade it would receive if complete.

 

DD 7 - another example - I have a copy with one of the pinup pages removed. Blue would be .5 ---but it got a green 4.5 (missing pinup did not affect story)

 

Is blue more desirable than green? - for 2 different books of the same grade in the slab - almost always yes. For one individual book - you probably want the green as it would be significantly higher in grade.

 

Exceptions would be for non-witnessed signatures. These books are given the "grade" the book would receive anyway--- if the sig is visible and can be reasonably be verified, then it would retain value, might even get a bump.

 

 

 

 

[VintageComics]

I get it we have a green label now that is issued to comics that have basically one major flaw, to what would otherwise be a much higher rated book. So my questions are...

 

1. when is this green label issued?

2. does CGC or the submitter decide if it is a green?

3. How does green affect value?

4. is a green always less desirable than a blue?

 

This video should help.

 

 

 

[mschmidt]

Exceptions would be for non-witnessed signatures. These books are given the "grade" the book would receive anyway--- if the sig is visible and can be reasonably be verified, then it would retain value, might even get a bump.

 

That just isn't true at all.

 

In the vast majority of cases, a green label slab with an unverified cover signature is worth far less than its unsigned counterpart in a blue label slab; most of the time it's a complete waste of $$$ to slab a book with an unverified signature on the cover.