Comic Book Grading Tutorial 

I can't tell you guys how much I appreciate the time and effort you put into this for everyone. Thanks.

My Dad in the late 70s grabbed a bunch of comics out of a dumpster next to a comic shop. 155 comics. That started my love of comic collecting. The covers, the relevance of characters. I love it all. Thank you guys for the vid.

I want to thank you guys for this really nice introductory video to comic book grading.

Thanks guys for the time you took on this video it did help me a little bit in grading my books.

More grading tutorials please! Great dialog, think aloud, while actually analyzing the books. Guest was very detail oriented, and very descriptive on his process. EXCELLENT! Very helpful. More! :)

All I can say is wow, and Thank you. Definitely helpful, especially to one who is just starting over again with comic books. Excellent work gentlemen. Thank you once again.

Great job guys, I have been eagerly anticipating this video and does it deliver. Keep up the great work.

Love the videos

I can not thank you guys enough for doing this particular video. It assures me that I am grading comics correctly. There has been a lot of problems with people buying from me on ebay claiming that I had greatly over graded a comic. I Believe in the Overstreet Price Guide Standards AND the owl card which I use religiously. The standards set by the three grading services are not anywhere near the Overstreet guidelines.

Such a helpful video. I've been trying to grade my comics on my own. I might be under grading them. I'm just learning how to grade. Keep up the awesome videos

Never got back in to the comic book's after the 1970's? I now kind of wish I would of kept them? Great video by the way. Thanks

great info, thanks for sharing some insight. such a fine line between vg and f

No way that Green Lantern spine split is the allowed quarter inch for fine. FN- with that giant split

I give these guys props for trying but they need a lot of help. They are doing their best, but they are not close at all. Looking at the lower left back cover of Avengers #239 and thinking that that 5 inch crease or stacking crease is manufacturing?????? Wow. Also on the Firestorm #1, the writing on the DC bullet, if everything else is 9.8, it's a 9.8. The pages were white/OWW. For OW pages you don't drop the book to an 8.0 You can have a 9.8 with OW pages. It's not until you get to COW pages that the grade starts being affected. CGC doesn't downgrade for writing on vintage books because it was so common at the time. How Chris was handling the book up to the light was killing me. People at the drug store or grocery store wrote on the covers of new books for distribution purposes. How do I know. I was a CGC grader for 4 years. I watched 15 minutes of this video and had to shut it off. 90 minutes is nuts. This is how little people know about grading, that they thought this video was excellent. I am here to tell anyone who watches this video - JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING THEY TOLD YOU WAS WRONG AND IGNORE IT COMPLETELY. I will have my own series of videos coming once my non compete runs out. Excelsior and Nuff said!

Very helpful, especially when many just look at the cover and not the overall quality.

That "dimple" at the edge of Daredevil 8, at 1:09:16 is most likely a bundle crimp, from the era when comics arrived from the distributor bound in a bundle with wire or string. Sometimes it's just a crimp at the edge, but other times there can be deep rills running through the flat surfaces of the book, especially on the back side of the bottom comic in the bundle. Less frequent is a front cover with entrenched rills; maybe the comics with such defects appeared more obviously defective on the stands, and the comic-buyer selected the next one down instead. A crimp at the edge of this Daredevil seems relatively modest, to me.

I have a Amazing Spider-man 129 but I don't know the grade exactly ?

i took a Captain America #111 to a con to have Jim Steranko sign it. I used scotch tape on the mylar bag. you can guess what happened. i use the blue painters tape now

That was a great video guys! Very good examples. Nice info. I'm going to have to get the grading guide. I hope you guys in the future could answer the question on selling on eBay. How should I photograph my book? Should I underestimate the grade? Maybe not state a grade and just have pictures and let the buyer decide that's the price they want to pay?

Great Info... Thanks!

Fantastic!!

Where's the blue light at?

Great tutorial.

Amazing!

Letterman fan... I miss the NBC era shows.

I'm chrome casting this baby!

The way he drops his books back down in the bags, they won't be VF for long.

this was a good video...thanks for shareing

you should of showed each grade

Should I be re-sleeving my old comics?

Cool guys!

What was the name of that book/author with the pictures of ratings.

Thanks so much guys. I am a vintage and antique book collector/seller, but my brother-in-law has asked me to please, please try to help him with his comic book collection...starting with the 1st Conan the Barbarian. All that you shared was so very helpful. A specific condition that I did not see discussed is when there is a small (less than 1/4 inch) closed tear. In our case it is not at spine, but rather along outside edge. Can you help? Excepting this and utilizing the great info that you shared...I would guess Very Fine +. Thanks in advance. Dina

What was the name of that book I dont think you gave a name of the book

where did you get that black panther shirt

So how can there be any Spiderman or Ff#1 let alone a 9.6 if that is less? There should be grading based on siler, gold ages etc. So nuts. That's a 9.0 ..but their are early action comics with higher grades.. how?

Just out of curiosity, I have a First appearance of black widow book (TOS52) it's missing a good corner 1 inch + piece from the bottom left corner. Other wise it's complete, good staples, off-white pages. Is it still worth having graded professionally with that cover damage?

hi,if the staples are not in the center of the comic,they are not rusty but not in the middle of the two center pages,they are placed liitle left in the one of the two central pages?it's from the factory pressing undoubrtly.besides that the issue is a nearmint-vf issue.how would you grade this issue? also i have to say that the stapples re shown in the backcover not in the spine.

i bought a bronze age comic,it's nearly perfect BUT has a crease,which goes all over the pages,from the cover to the last page.what grade would you gave it?

I'm tired of buying comics with grey shadows/smudge marks as lines on the cover, How hight do I have to get as a minimum on a comic to Not get grey smudge marks that looks like shadow lines on the front cover? It's happened to me 4 times.

I been getting into hulk lately especially Dale Keown/Peter David run and it on some of the inks transfer to other pages because some panels has a lot of dark colors but isn't bad. Is that normal?

Could someone please help with the title and real name of the grading book? I can find a book close to this, but not sure its the same. Live in Denmark, so its a bit more complicated and cannot just call or visit a store. Thanks!!!

Just out of curiosity - what are those holes at the bottom of the pages of the copper books? I have some keys that have that same flaw but some that don't. I just assumed it was production related, but is it something else?

11:59 - - Aaaarrrggh!!

The video would be twice as good without the host’s constant inane comments.

Just read

I have recently come into possession of a Wolverine 1, 2, 3 1988, the pages are crisp and the pages are white. How should i go about selling this. Bought it at a car boot sale for a £1 each and i could have cried i found this kind of find. But how on earth do i go about selling this? Also Ive been seeing varying prices, what should I expect. I am living in the UK

Guys. Thanks for the video. I need t get my hands on a book that tells me all the issues AND volumes of these Super Heroes: CAP, DAREDEVIL, HULK, SUBMARINER, AVENGERS, FF, CONAN, THOR, IRON MAN. does the over street guide do this. where can i get something like this. help me out

I'm tappin' out 1:07:19 ... almost made it! 😂😂 Now back to my Covid19 regularly scheduled program 😷👍🍺🍺🍺🚬

I found an old collection. How do I safely open the box? What do I need to know? Probably around 50 years old.

I don't believe that CGC would have been as liberal as you in their grading. A fine book with a split spine is "fine"?? I don't think so.

Seeing their faces always scares me

FN/VF on that Blue Beetle? I don't think so. This guy is somewhat knowledgeable, but he still doesn't know how to properly grade.

Make sure you speak to the microphone next time 🤦🏻‍♂️

True story- I learned about grading from an Overstreet guide I got as a kid. So, I wrote the grade in ballpoint pen on the covers of my comics!!!!!!!