I'm getting ready to sell-off most of my comic collection and have considered getting some of higher value comics graded with CGC before selling them. Yesterday, I just got the first one back (an Amazing Spider-Man 300). First of all, I was impressed to see that it came back with a higher grade than I anticipated, but I was bemused by how cool it was to see my book in a pristine case.
The thing is, I've pretty much been against "slabbed" comics because I feel comics are made to be read, not enshrined in a plastic case for viewing purposes. What has switched me around is:
(1) the fact that so many comic stories I love are available digitally (i.e., those Spider-Man and X-Men collections in PDF on DVD) or through reprints (like trade paperbacks) &
(2) the pure economics that selling an individual ungraded comic practically guarantees you'll be getting a fraction of the value of the book.
How do any of you feel about graded comics?
The thing is, I've pretty much been against "slabbed" comics because I feel comics are made to be read, not enshrined in a plastic case for viewing purposes. What has switched me around is:
(1) the fact that so many comic stories I love are available digitally (i.e., those Spider-Man and X-Men collections in PDF on DVD) or through reprints (like trade paperbacks) &
(2) the pure economics that selling an individual ungraded comic practically guarantees you'll be getting a fraction of the value of the book.
How do any of you feel about graded comics?
merlowe:
Hmmm ..first time that question has been posed to me..which I dig,,but anyway...I would say seal them up and sell them if you can..I love BOOKS of all kind really..but every day I think of how it is so important for me to push that idea down my kids throats..now adays they are going to computers strictly in schools..that means kids will not turn to books even for knowledge...a women that I worked at a p-t job with who is a librarian ..is going to school for computers cause all the libraries are putting everything in a computer data base..I mean EVERYTHING...so I am sure you love your books ..and if you do..preserve them...sell the ones you don't ADORE..and keep the ones you love and could not replace even if you could see them online..My thing is I am a very tangible person ..I love to touch..my books that is... 
Just a good thing that SG is not touch and see
Just a good thing that SG is not touch and see