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Iron Man 1
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Not A Clone

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48 minutes ago, James J Johnson said:

Jenny, condition, condition, condition. Condition is everything. It's what makes or breaks the value of a book. First, grading these on a 1-10 scale will separate the chaff from the wheat. Condition is what will determine whether Thor 135, 137, and 150, to pick an example, are worth dollars or hundreds of dollars.

There's grading tutorials to be found online. For years, Overstreet published a grading guide, with lots of pictures and examples. I don't know if they still publish it, but it was a good start for a beginner. You can also search Ebay, using successive searches for CGC 0.5, CGC 1.0, CGC 1.5, CGC 1.8, etc., and so forth, all the way up to 10.0. Study many examples against each other and this will give you a fantastic idea of relative grading. WHY a 2.5 isn't as good as a 3.5, or an 8.0 as good as a 9.0, etc., etc. Even though there are exceptions to every rule, if you study clear, large scans, you'll start to sense the logic to grading.

The Heritage Comics resource section, permanent archives, holds an exceptional amount of CGC examples. Many thousands. Sometimes dozens of examples of CGC graded comics of any one particular issue. There, you can see huge, magnified  examples of CGC graded comics, perfect for your study, both front and back covers, so I would start there, even before ebay, as your prime source of viewing examples of CGC grades, which is the hobby's state of the art:

https://comics.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=52+790+231&Ntk=SI_Titles&Nty=1&Ntt=Fantastic+Four+%231&limitTo=all&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316

I searched FF 1 for you, the results are many in a wide selection of grades for study!

You can use the search archives for any issue.

Also, there's a section here on this forum, "Hey buddy can you spare a grade".

Start to hang out there. Post examples. Study others' examples. Chime in. We'll be happy to discuss things with you. You're a "friend of ours now", like in the movie "goodfellas". :tink:

 

Yep they do still publish the grading guide. Bought mine a couple of months ago direct from gemstone. 

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44 minutes ago, JennyG13 said:

As requested here they are.  What do you think?

74, 75, **101**. These are the ones that will be cost effective to submit. The 101 is a much better submission candidate than the IM 1, if you're starting by sending one, Jenny

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7 hours ago, James J Johnson said:

74, 75, **101**. These are the ones that will be cost effective to submit. The 101 is a much better submission candidate than the IM 1, if you're starting by sending one, Jenny

Yep! (thumbsu

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