Does Heritage Auctions Slab Comics? 0

[David720]

I am a 50+ year holder and a very new seller of my books.  Last Friday, I delivered eight comics to their Beverly Hills office to be sent to Dallas.  These are 1968ish key issues in very exceptional condition.  They were sent "raw" because I didn't really know the importance of "slabbing" until this week (thank you especially to the posters in these forums}.  I have multiple  issues of these, so not too worried about it and will try to submit more intelligently next time.

I'm just wondering how Heritage or other auctions handle submissions of ungraded comics, as in slabbing them, or is that just done by CGC and similar companies?

I am aware that they do assign grades to the comics.

 

 

 

[MB1952]

Welcome to the boards.

Yes slabbing your keys will bring you more money. Good thing you got multiples like you mention. This forum is full of good information. Good luck with your sales. 

[csaag]

I've haven't heard of auction houses slabbing raw comics someone sends them.  Plus there's the choice to put them thru pressing/dry cleaning.  If u slab you can have CGC do the pressing of go thru 3rd party presses.

[Crops068]

I do not believe any of the auction houses slab them, they will likely rely on the seller to do that before it comes up to the block for sale.  As @csaag  mentioned you will have the option before slabbing the books to have them pressed, depending on the condition and age of the book it could definitely help you with selling them.

If you want to do more you can also take some good pictures of them and post them up on the "Hey Buddy, Spare a Grade?" forum.  You will want to post 1 book per thread and then our members will look them over and give you their opinion of the condition.

Welcome to the forum!

Edited May 24, 2019 by Crops068
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[taro90]

That's not true. All the auction houses will slab books for you if they're going to be auctioned off at their auctions. I've submitted raw books to both ComicLink and ComicConnect and both auction houses have submitted books to CGC on my behalf, to be sold on their auctions on a later date. Even though I've never submitted books to Heritage for auction, just look at the pedigree collections that have been sold through their signature auctions. All most all were submitted raw and Heritage submitted them on be half of the seller to CGC for grading. The books were sent back directly from CGC to Heritage to be auctioned off on a later date in one of Heritage's Signature auctions. They will also sent them in to CCS for pressing, if need be. 

WELCOME TO THE BOARDS!!! 

Edited May 24, 2019 by taro90

[David720]

Thank you all for your replies.  I will ask my contact at Heritage to submit all of these to CGC for grading.

There is a real story to these comics and the condition they're in.  I started buying comics at age 9 in 1965.  I only bought DC's and have NEVER read a Marvel comic book.  I was able to buy Golden Age when my dad drove us to Cherokee Bookstore in Hollywood.  They were expensive to me (usually I bargained with Bert the comics seller to get issues like Superman #27,28 and #35 for $2.00 each.  I almost balked at having to pay $8.00 for Superman #14!

In the early 70's, my brother Alan told me he was getting rid of his entire collection.  He was just going to take them to a yard sale or something like that.  I really BEGGED AND BEGGED him not to do that.  In the end, I finally asked him to just sell them to me.  We agreed on a price of $60.00 for around 600 comic books, which included multiple copies of the various 1968 number #1 issues, as well as great Dell and Gold Key runs, such as Turok, Magnus Robot Fighter, Star Trek etc. Also lots of low value comics.

As I said, I have never read a Marvel, meaning that these have sat unopened and never read for over 50 years.

I will gladly post returns from CGC - I just need to learn how to do that.

 

BTW - The comics I sent to heritage are: Star Trek #1, ASM #59, Nick Fury #1, FF #72, Captain Marvel #1, Doctor Strange #169, Iron Man & Sub-Mariner #1, and Captain America #100.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[csaag]

Good info taro and best of luck David

Edited May 24, 2019 by csaag
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