How I Added Thousands of Dollars of Value to My Comics!
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- Опубликовано: 17 июл 2024
- #ComicInvesting #Comics #CGC
In this video we go over how to maximize the value of your comic book collection.
I hope you enjoy, and I'll continue posting more content weekly!
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:56 Reasons To Get Your Comics Pressed and Graded
05:42 Why Did I Select The Comic Book Presser?
10:27 High Value Comics
15:18 Comics with Spine Rolls
21:21 High Grade Modern Comics
23:46 Bronze Age Comics
26:57 Fragile Comics
28:41 Magazines
31:03 Defects to Look For When Pressing Comics
42:25 Deciding if you Should Grade or not 
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#Press A good presser is gold
For sure. You want someone you can trust and provides consistent, quality work.
Your presser receives high marks from me because of his honesty. I contacted him with an idea to doing CPR on a JIM #83 GCG 9.0. After sending your presser pics of my book, he recommended against CPR, thus costing himself some money. I was very appreciative of his honesty. Thanks for the video, Ryan! Very informative.
Original JIM 83 in 9.0? Not reprinted?
Yes, an original book.
That’s great to hear. Thanks for watching 👍
Never sent a book in to get pressed, but have some older golden age books I've thought of doing it for. #PRESS
What a great video. I watched from beginning to end and now and "a few hours later", here I am again. I do a lot of my own pressing but I have had a few fails so...... #press
I have a high grade batman annual #1, Daredevil #2, and many others that I don't have the nerve to press myself.
#PRESS I've been following you for a long time and have seen many results over the years. Indeed, the comicbookpresser is a keeper!
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Ive never had a book graded but have definitely been considering it for a long time. Always appreciate your videos and Info! #press
#Press this was really cool. I thought I understood when to send a book in for dressing, but you have shown me some other reasons as well. Great job.
#press I’ve used Chris (the comic presser) for years - I drop off at his warehouse in person (North Carolina).
#press appreciate your help/advice and the cool books you show off
What a great deep dive. You turned what I assume was a promotional video for your presser into an incredibly educational piece. Thank you!
Appreciate it, thanks 👍. I wanted to make it more than just an advertisement but something that could help address the types of questions around pressing I often get as well.
Thanks for a very informative video. I had contacted The Comic Book Presser about a year ago but never got around to sending any books in. Various life things have gotten in the way. I hope to do so in the near future. #PRESS
Your presser is very impressive! Ha! #Press
I just started working with your presser and he provided great advice
Glad to hear 👍. Please mention my channel to him if you haven’t already. Helps out the channel 😃.
Just contacted your presser this week, great interaction. And, I need that coupon!!!😁 #Press
Glad to hear. I’d appreciate if you’d mention my channel as well =). Good luck with any future submissions.
#press Ryan, great video again ! I’ve never pressed a book before but would now consider it mostly due to your very informative and interesting RUclips videos !
Glad to hear they’ve helped 👍. If you are planning to get your books graded, I definitely recommend pressing first.
If you send him some books, please mention my channel, and good luck in any future submissions 👍.
I’ve sent books to cgc since they started in 2000/2001. In those days pressing had a very negative stigma. I think with Matt Nelson taking over cgc the stigma has been eliminated and the hobby definitely changed for the better. Optimizing your book’s appearance and value is definitely the way to go for high end books !
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Although I don't currently have a presser for my books, I have a desire to get some of my high value books pressed and cleaned.
Thank you for including the link for The Comic Book Presser in your description.
Thanks, hope this video helped with your decision. Please let him know you heard about him from my channel if you send some books in 👍
Excellent video as I prepare for my first, and massive, CPR attempt. Very inclined to use your presser. #press
Good luck with your attempt 👍. Please mention my channel if you send him any books.
Ryan, great video and great results from your presser. Next time you do a video like this I recommend you show the before pressing pictures. That would be a more emphatic display of the wonders cleaning and pressing can do for a book.
I appreciate the suggestion. I just don’t take before pictures, it’s too much effort for this volume of books.
I do film a video of my submissions though, and I could potentially try and make an effort to show the pressable issues in those.
Thanks for the in depth discussion! #press
Thanks for watching 👍
I just acquired my first L.B. Cole pch cover ghostly weird tales. Super stoked on the pick up. His color palates on his various covers are cool and unique.
Nice 👍. That’s one of the things that drew me to his covers as well.
#press ing times. Thanks for another good educational video
#PRESS I love your channel man and I need to get some serious books pressed so I appreciate the recommend!! I also want to mention I recently bought a Hawkman #4 (CGC 5.5) on ebay from you!! 🤘🐀
Well thank you for the purchase =).
If you decide to send in some books, please mention my channel 👍. Good luck with your future submissions.
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Really enjoyed! Very educational and great tips! Appreciate your time and effort! Thanks Ryan! Bye the way really enjoy your channel!
Appreciate it, glad to hear 👍.
@@AutomaticComics you are very welcome! I collect Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee memorabilia as well as comics and other pop culture stuff. I just sent in 14 silver age comics to CGC to get graded that I had in my collection since I was a kid. I will let you know how I do thru some episode I plan to put out.
Plan on using your presser for my next batch as well. Thanks again and talk soon.
#Press I got back into collecting and selling comics this year. So I’m still learning a lot .The Comic Book Presser does a great job on all my books. He has taught me some things along the way too. It’s a friendly family business and the communication is great . They will email you if they have any concerns about your books . My last submission was a Uncanny X-men 9.6 . Cracked , clean pressed it came back a 9.8 . Doubled in value . Good video , like always Ryan .
Congratulations, that’s a great result 👍
#PRESS win or not I would consider sending some of books to your presser. I'm not overly confident on pressing a few of my expensive books.
Man I’m starting to think I should’ve picked up that marvel comics 16! 😂 Looks great man, glad it worked out for you!
😃. There was definitely a little risk involved. From the Mercari pictures it was hard to tell what exactly the condition was going to be like.
@@AutomaticComics oh ya always a risk buying from Mercari! Seller seemed pretty legit though, I would’ve felt bad if something went wrong!
Cool helpful vid...Thanks Ryan... #Press
Thanks for watching 👍
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This was a really helpful video! I’m getting a stack of books together to clean, press, and submit!
Looking forward to working with you.
Glad to hear. Thanks for watching 👍
#press love the comic book presser. Great results and communication. Like their new customer account setup. I can easily track my order.
Thanks a lot! We appreciate your business. It is great to hear you are enjoying the new website and login. It was a massive undertaking.
Glad to hear 👍
#press That is quite the recommendation!! I am in!
Looking forward to working with you!
#press great info
#Press solid tips. I definitely want to gather some books to send at some point but the more I look the harsher I am on potential grades and values where I keep finding it not worth it.
I agree pressing is a art. Wish I could do it. #press
#PRESS Thanks for recommending a presser. I've been wondering how I was going to find a good, trustworthy presser for my childhood silver-age books.
Hope this helped with your decision 👍. If you send him some books to be pressed, I’d appreciate it if you would mention my channel 👍.
Good luck with your future submissions.
#Press. Learning to press your own books is also very satisfying. Like anything else in the world, it takes time to learn and experience.
For sure. I don’t have the time or space to press my own, so I happily leave it to someone much more experience than me =)
Great video, Ryan! You couldn't have posted it at a more opportune time. I'm preparing to make my first CGC submission and I want to use your recommendation for presser/cleaner. I was ready to search for their information in your past videos, but was pleasantly surprised to find that this newest video is dedicated to the very same topic. Thank you for your valuable recommendation and keep up the good work! #PRESS
Thanks and glad to hear 👍. Please mention my channel when you make your submission.
Will do!@@AutomaticComics
Looking forward to working with you @sullentime.
@@TheComicBookPresser Likewise! I’ll be in contact soon. 👍
#press this is a great vid and really helpful!
Glad to hear. Thanks 👍
great video! #press
I have a wavy cover on AMS 100, other than that could use a presser. #presser
Would like to start getting some comics presses for sure #press
#press. Stopped with grading my comics. Got some bad experience with some pressers. Your presser sounds reliable. Next time I will send him some books. Thanks
Sorry about your prior experiences. But glad to hear this was helpful. If you send him some books, please mention my channel 👍.
Hi, congratulations, your comment was selected for the pressing coupon. Thanks for watching and commenting. Please reach out to me on Instagram or via email (both contacts are in the video description) and I'll get that coupon code sent to you. Thanks again for commenting!
forgot to add #Press in my previous comment. hope this counts!
I am thinking of sending some books to cgc , I need to look in to a presser. #PRESS
Well I definitely recommend my presser 👍. If you decide to send him some books, please mention my channel. And good luck with any of your future submissions.
Before I started my own pressing, I sent 3 high value books to your guy for pressing, including one spine roll correction. Very satisfied with the results and subsequent CGC grades.
Glad to hear 👍
Like your videos, man #press
Appreciate it, thanks 👍
#PRESS I have been using The Comic Book Presser for many of my Golden Age books and he has done some amazing work on them. If you are in the Durham area, he'll be at Durham Con the weekend of November 4 to review books and take submissions.
Hi Chuck! Hope to seee you this weekend!
Glad to hear, and thanks for the heads up.
Awesome video! I love The Comic Book Presser! Awesome business with the best results in the game! I used his services on my last submission and he helped me score a 9.8 Canadian price variant newsstand!
Nice, congratulations 👍
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I have had good results with the comic book presser. I have so many more I want to press, but I can never get myself to sell books to pay the cost, so it's a slow process. #press
#Press I have been researching pressers and the comicbookpresser was 1 of the 3 final companies I was considering. I'm just a bit nervous sending high end books since I am on the west coast. I may try low value books first to build my faith.
Hello. I understand your hesitation. We receive books from California on a weekly basis and when you send to us, they are at least heading in the direction of CGC. So they are not being mailed all over the country in different directions. Also, we have an option to use our Insurance for $20.00. You can choose that when you do a submission. When using our insurance, as long as our printed invoice is in your box and you choose Signature Confirmation, you books are insured to us and then again when we ship them to CGC.
Like I mentioned in the video, I’ve shipped 10s of thousands of dollars in books to him. Just make sure you use a sturdy box and plenty of bubble wrap and you’ll be good. I typically make “bricks” of about 10 comics each and wrap those in bubble wrap. Haven’t had any issues.
If you send him some books to work on, please mention my channel as well 👍. Good luck with your future submissions.
The double cover seems an interesting challenge for a presser. A simple press without considering the torn cover may imprint the torn edge onto the inner cover. #Press
Hello. I am sure that would thrown someone for a loop. We have pressed similar double covers before and know how to not indent the inside cover with the outside cover. Great comment and I'm sure this would cause someone that does not know how to press it some stress.
@@TheComicBookPresser wow. Answered by the subject of this video. I did hear enough to know you would know better, but thanks for acknowledging it is something that must be considered. I may need to contact you about my "Diary of Eerie Adventures". It does not have a bad spine roll, but the spine is tilted at 45 degrees. Can that be corrected. Granted, I should be contacting you directly.
Listening to you talk about cost differences between half grades got me thinking a change to "grade step" may be needed. There are no half grades above 9.0. #PRESS
Every step is just considered a half grade. That’s just the terminology.
#PRESS Waiting for my first book to come back from CGC after using The Comic Book Presser. It’s a Batman 96 from 1955.
Good luck on the submission 👍
Interesting video #PRESS
Pressing/cleaning definitely adds value (and I use thecomicbookpresser thanks to you (great work, professional, responsive) ----#PRESS-- -- but CGC grading is double edged value sword. If the goal is to flip/sell then yes, but for preserving (long term, for PC, etc.) CGC slabs simply FAIL at protecting comics and as such they can DECREASE value. For so many of them, the slightest handling jostles the book against the inner edges causing damage. For this reason, for some books, I am trying CBCS to see if their slabs are more protective even if the re-sell values are lower.
I agree that slabbing isn’t necessarily the best way to preserve a comic. Just a Mylar and a fullback will more than handle the job if that’s your goal.
But yes, for resale (and presentation IMO), CGC is the best option available.
Glad to hear you’ve been sending books to him. If you don’t already, please mention my channel when you do 👍.
I was curious if the Comic Book Presser would press a book that's already been slabbed; that is if he will open the slab and press the book. I have lots of slabbed books that have never been pressed and cleaned.
Thanks.
Yes. He does crack books out to press if that’s what you want done.
Thanks for passing on that info Ryan!@@AutomaticComics Yes, we crack out multiple books a week.
would love to get some books pressed #press my books please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too bad I live in Portugal and sending/receiving books to/from USA is too big of a risk. Risk of the package get lost somewhere in between, shipping/customs costs, the time the whole process takes, etc. Otherwise I would defenitly grade my best comics by CGC and for sure use your presser! It would massively increase the quality and value of my "keeper list" books.
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It should be interesting what. More fun comics 73 sells for
I have a question on books that I think are 9.8 candidates. For some reason I think I should just send these in to get graded. I worry that pressing and the extra handling will introduce something to lower the grade. Is this possible or am I over thinking this?
You are likely overthinking it. I’d personally never send in a 9.8 candidate book without being pressed first.
CGC is going to have to handle the book for grading regardless. And as long as it’s a good presser, they know how to handle comics, so I wouldn’t be concerned with them adding damage.
@@AutomaticComics I sent in a Nyx #3 that I was pretty sure it was a 9.8. But if you tilted the comic, in the right light there was a very minor bend along the right side of the FC, and that caused it to be a 9.6... So now I normally have CGC press the 9.8 candidates for me to be safe. I've heard bad things about their pressing, so I've been looking for someone to press the higher valued books that I don't have the nerve to press myself. Will definitely check out your guy. While I was watching this video I already started some planning on what I could submit to him... :D
@@jimf.1005 yeah, definitely worth the additional cost to make sure you get that best grade possible on the first submission 👍
I have some golden age captain america books, batman, action comics and superman, all non keys, but they are irreplaceable as far as I'm concerned. I've been so scared to get them cleaned and pressed and sent to cgc. I've been putting it off for years. I'm afraid a book will get ruined, lost, or stolen. You are making me feel better about doing it. But I'm still scared
Just make sure you package them securely, and if you don’t have collectors insurance, select the insurance option he provides in his ordering form.
I can’t ever say there’s zero risk, there’s always risk when sending comics through the mail. But my experiences so far have been uneventful. I also make sure I always have my books insured to give some peace of mind.
Not sure, but I think you just talked your presser into charging more.
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It's a 9.4 cause it's CGC
Or it’s a 9.4 because of the incredible work the presser put into it.
Wonder if you think about that when you make that comment? That you’re insulting all the hard work someone put into making a book look as good as it does.