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Certified Guaranty Company, also known as CGC, is a Sarasota, Florida comic book grading service. CGC is an independent member of the Certified Collectibles Group of companies. It is the first independent and impartial third party grading service for comic books.
Metropolis founder Stephen Fishler is credited with creating the 10 point grading scale that is used industry wide for valuing comic books. He did not create the nomenclature grades (e.g. Very Fine, Near Mint), but organized what was once a 42-point system into the 10-point grading scale, which he convinced the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide to adopt, and was later embraced by the Certified ...
To ensure independent evaluation and impartial certification, established third-party companies like Certified Guaranty Company (CGC) or Comic Book Certification Service (CBCS) offer grading services for comics. These companies allow comic books to be submitted for comprehensive assessment, including grading, restoration checks, and ...
The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (or Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide) is an annually published comic book price guide widely considered the primary authority on the subject of American comic book grading and pricing in the hobby/industry.
There are no known extant copies of Uncanny X-Men #94 that rate higher than a 9.8 on the Comic Guaranty LLC grading scale. As of June 1, 2013 there were 18 copies that had been graded at 9.8. A copy with a 9.6 rating was sold for $4,450 on eBay in 2004. [13] In 2010 Walter Durajlija of Ontario's Big B Comics sold a copy for $26,500. [14]
The copy sold is the third highest-graded copy from the CGC, which stands at 8.5 VF+ grade, [18] which Zurzolo said was among the best-kept copies. [15] As of 2011, there were six known Comic Guaranty LLC (CGC)-graded copies with a grade above VG (CGC 4.0), with only one issue having the grade of VF/NM (CGC 9.0) at that time. [19]