How To Grade Your Own Comic Books

How do I grade my own comic books?

There are books such as the Overstreet grading guide that will give you fundamentals on how to grade a comic book, and the Overstreet pricing guide that has typically in it's introduction some back ground on grading and where the different categories fall within. As with anything, it comes with practice and as time goes by and you handle more and more comic books, the experience will show to you how the different categories of grading apply and how the different type of defects apply, and with that you'll understand the different new answers and the subjectivity that follows. Some people don't like date stamps that might have been on a book from the 1960's that the drug store put on the comic book when it arrived. Others think that that's a great and fascinating bit of history that tells you exactly when that comic book was issued and when someone bought the comic book. Now that may or may not affect the objective grade, but it could affect the subjective grade. That's something you'll learn over time as you involve in the buying and selling of comic books.