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- Posted: July 29, 2020 3:17:47 pm
- I call upon your wisdom! Please educate me!
So it's my birthday tomorrow and my comic lovin' daughter hit the comic shop and bought me a couple of comics I've had my eye on for a while. One of them is Fantastic Four #58, because I love that SWEET Doctor Doom cover! (AmZoMBiE knows what I mean).
ANYWAY. . .
That pic up there isn't mine. I'm not in my office to scan it. Mine has an English 10d price and is slabbed and graded at 8.0 by PGX.
And there is my question. What's the difference between PGX and CGC? I don't plan on selling this comic, but I'm interested in knowing how having something graded by PCX affects the "value" of this comic.
Thanks in advance to anyone chiming in.
Last edited July 29, 2020 3:18:58 pmFavorite Characters: Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, Captain America, The Shadow, Zorro, The Rocketeer, Jonah Hex
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madtruk
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- Posted: July 29, 2020 3:38:21 pm
- From what I've gathered reading forums, it tends to go CGC>CBCS>PGX as far as reputation and pricing go. Others may know more, of course.
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brucifer
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- Posted: July 29, 2020 3:38:40 pm
- I'm not a "slabbing" expert, but CGC seems to be the best at what they do. PGX has had some complaints about their grading services in the last couple of years.
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Canuck
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AmZoMBiE
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GenesisDay07
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- Posted: July 30, 2020 2:24:07 am
Canuck said:
Now being a foreign release that should have made it cheaper to begin with.
I'm not sure that's 100% correct, but I speak under correction. I've read that the UK prints were printed in the US but with their (UK) currency and generally printed first as the intention was that they be released more or less at the same time.
I'm sure some of you have more info than I do?
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- Posted: July 30, 2020 5:16:16 pm
- That sorta vague comment about foreign pricing also tweaked my interest a little.
Would that be considerd a "variant" that's valued LESS than the regular American priced version?
I've always thought that maybe foreign priced comics would be worth MORE because there's less of them out there.
And getting back to the meat of my question. . . Thanks for all the great information!
But I'm still a bit lost on WHY PGX rated comics are sort of looked down on (at least from what I;ve seen here so far). It DOES seem that they rated the comic about a point too high. . .but that's based on the knowledge of someone who generally doesn't sell a lot of comics,. Are they known for over-rating on their grades?
Is there any sort of an agreed-upon "matching point" between CGC and PGX? A sort of PGX rating X = CGC Rating Y kind of conversion?
I'm just really curious because I have a small handful of CGC graded comics floating around my collection, but I've never seen a PGX graded one before.
Last edited July 30, 2020 5:20:14 pmFavorite Characters: Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, Captain America, The Shadow, Zorro, The Rocketeer, Jonah Hex
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Spa-fon
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Canuck
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brucifer
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- Posted: July 30, 2020 7:20:24 pm
- We did get off topic. Happy Birthday Atom!!
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- Posted: August 1, 2020 11:46:08 pm
AmZoMBiE said:
Oh and the part that EVERYONE ignored...HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY!!! lol...sorry bout that.
brucifer said: We did get off topic. Happy Birthday Atom!!
Thanks!
Last edited August 1, 2020 11:46:50 pmFavorite Characters: Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, Captain America, The Shadow, Zorro, The Rocketeer, Jonah Hex
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madtruk
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- Posted: August 3, 2020 8:32:02 am
- Heya Atom-
I found this story from 2006 that looks like PGX and a reseller were in cahoots to buy books, trim them, grade them high without restoration, and then resell them. Not sure where it went from there, but the damage to their reputation seems to have lingered. http://www.justafanboy.com/PGX/?PGX
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