{"id":1074,"date":"2012-02-03T11:45:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2012-02-03T11:45:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T19:45:13","slug":"what-is-cgc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/cgc-comic-books\/what-is-cgc\/","title":{"rendered":"What is CGC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You will see the term CGC a lot on this site, so what is it?<\/p>\n<p>CGC is an abbreviation for Certified Guaranty Company.  They are an independent company that inspects, grades and encapsulates comic books in a hard plastic holder.<\/p>\n<p>CGC gives comic books a grade based on a 10 point scale.  They also conduct a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/uncategorized\/comic-book-restoration-what-is-it\/\" title=\"Comic Book Restoration \u2013 What is It?\">restoration<\/a> check.  Once these two steps are complete the encapsulate the comic book in a tamper proof plastic holder with the title and grade at the top.<\/p>\n<p>The benefits of the service include the restoration check, the protective holder, and most importantly an impartial grading level that buyers and sellers can agree on.<\/p>\n<p>Example of a CGC graded comic in holder:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_999\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/actioncomics1cgc9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/actioncomics1cgc9-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"actioncomics1cgc9\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/actioncomics1cgc9-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/actioncomics1cgc9.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Action Comics 1 CGC 9.0<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will see the term CGC a lot on this site, so what is it? CGC is an abbreviation for Certified Guaranty Company. They are an independent company that inspects, grades and encapsulates comic books in a hard plastic holder. CGC gives comic books a grade based on a 10 point scale. They also conduct&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/comic-book-basics\/cgc-comic-books\/what-is-cgc\/\">Read the rest of this entry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cgc-comic-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicbooksecrets.com\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}