Should I slab my comic books?
Whether or not you want to slab your comic book is an individual choice, it depends on what is your interest. If you want to be as a collector and read your comic books, you obviously do not want to slab them because that will impede completely on your ability to read it. If you are looking from an investment standpoint, then you're dealing with very high grade, very expensive comic books, and therefore there is a strong incentive in having them slabbed. Why? For one, you get an independent grade, and two, you have a restoration check performed on that comic book which impacts the value. Thirdly, the comic book is encased in the plastic which will hopefully minimize your handling of the book so the book will not be damaged. and it makes it marketable, especially in the internet age. An ability to sell a slabbed comic book, on say EBay, is a much better chance than what we say is a raw book, an unslabbed book, because you have the feature of an independent grading company coming in who's grading determination is not influenced by how much money this comic book is worth. So, by me selling a comic book raw, I want that comic book to be as mint as possible. Why? It's worth more. You may think its a fine comic book and worth less. But, if it's an independently graded comic book certified in a slab, the fact that it says that its an 8.0, a very fine comic book, now that's a subjective grade to that company, but it's not influenced by me, the seller of the comic book. So you can rely on that as your baseline for making a determination. Indeed it all depends on if you are going to be a collector, a seller, or an investor, or a combination of the three. Those will all influence whether or not you want to have your comic book certified.
