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How does colour rubink transfer affect cgc grading. We accept payment made by credit card, personal check, money order or we can send you an invoice via paypal using your paypal email address. Comic book certification, pressing faq cbcs comics. A comic must be relatively complete to be successfully restored. Here at the comics vault our mission is to offer a friendly and fun atmosphere that customers and the. Grading is the term used for the assessment of the condition of a particular comic book. The company is a part of a community of investors, writers, archivists, restoration specialists, and ecommerce industrialists committed to preserving comic books and advancing the art of illustration.
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Jan 12, 2014 vaults founders and directors are avid comic book collectors with a deep appreciation of comic and graphic art. While a casual collector might not need to bother, its vitally important to have your comics graded if you ever plan to sell them, because the value of a comic varies widely depending on the grade it. Pgx was created to meet the growing demand for professional, thirdparty comic book grading. Vault comics and blue ice pictures are proud to announce that syfy has picked up the liveaction series vagrant queen, based on vaults comic book series of the same name. Preventative restoration, widely used and accepted by collectors, consists of nonadditive restoration on a book with one or two major defects. Cgc will have representatives there so you can have your signed comics witnessed and given to them for slabbing. The most difficult, contentious and eternally frustrating aspect of comic collecting is grading. Cbcs comic book certification service grading company.
With comic books, once a book is deemed authentic by the cbcs, it is inspected for restoration and conservation by our restoration detection experts. These include the later 10 cent issues and all 12 cent issues, which ended in mid1969. A guide to grading the comic book price guide for great. When grading a comic book, the first thing youll see is the cover.