Collectibles: Comic Relief

A large number of the 6,000 or so comic-book fans who attended the 2011 Boston Comic Con in April suited up for the event. Superman, Batman, Robin, Catwoman, and Captain America all were well represented in the crowd that had come to the city’s Hynes Convention Center to meet their favorite artists, buy new and vintage

The presence of these caped, masked, and stars-and-stripes-spangled characters notwithstanding, the most powerful figures on hand were the gentlemen dressed in business attire and seated at a table on the perimeter of the hall. They work for Certified Guaranty Company (CGC), an 11-year-old Sarasota, Fla., firm that has brought transparency and order to the once-muddled collectible-comic-book market...

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