Professional Grading eXperts

When your comic books arrive at PGX, they are carefully unpacked, inspected, given a tracking number, and then entered into our computer system. Every book submitted to PGX undergoes our thorough grading and certification process.

Each book is inspected by our PGX Grading Team which consists of three graders:

[1] The first person is our pre-grader.
[2] The second is our restoration expert and primary grader.
[3] The third is our senior and final grader.

After going through the grading process, each comic book is given a certification label,  is then encapsulated in the PGX inner holder with special micro-chamber paper, then encapsulated in the PGX outer holder, and then packaged up and sent on their way back to you.
Click here for the submission form to get started.

Need help on how to submit your comics? Click on the “Submit Your Books” button for additional information.

This is the cost for grading your comics, and is on a per book basis. The grading fee for books with a FMV of over $4000 is 1% of the total FMV.

This pertains to individual books. For example, if you have an Incredible Hulk #181 that has a FMV of $600, the book would fall under the Classic Service, as the Standard Service has a Maximum FMV of $300. FMV is used to determine return insurance and the total FMV is what the package will be insured for when books are returned.

Defined as the number of business days between us receiving your comic books and us shipping them back to you. We guarantee our posted return times to within 4 business days, and often books are returned sooner than posted return times. If we keep your books for more than 4 business days over the posted return times, we will provide compensation.

This stands for Selected Service, and is mainly used for re-certification.

Books that are sent in to be re-certified will receive a 15% discount when returned with the original Certification Label. Books that are submitted for re-certification will undergo the full PGX Grading Process. 

The cost of Re-Holdering is $8 per book. The Re-Holder service is for holders that have been cracked, scratched or chipped.

You no longer need to pay the full cost of encasing a comic book that does not make the grade you want. With our Pre-Screening Service, you only pay for encasing comics at the minimum grade you set. Read the details here.

If you would like to have loose items such as 3-D Glasses or Certificates of Authenticity encased with your comic book, please include written authorization and note where in the holder you would like them placed (e.g. in front of or behind the book, inside the front or back cover, etc.), or call us before submitting the book. We are happy to include loose items with your books whenever possible. When sending books with Certificates of Authenticity, please include any bags or stickers that were originally with the book. Also note that we do not verify that any included Certificates of Authenticity are authentic, but as an added measure we will not include any suspicious Certificates of Authenticity with any book.

If there is a signature on a book we will make a note of the signature and where the
signature is. We do not guarantee the signature on any book is authentic unless it has been witnesses by PGX or a PGX representative.

If you are ordering from different services at the same time and would like your books
returned together, make sure to include all books when calculating shipping and insurance costs. If you would like your books returned separately according to the particular services you have chosen, please include separate figures for return shipping and insurance according to the number of books from each service.

Turnaround times and prices are subject to change. Any anticipated changes will be
posted to our PGX News section as far in advance as possible before any changes would take place.

A thorough restoration check is done on every book that goes through the PGX Certification process. Books with restoration are assigned a ‘Restored’ label with restoration being noted below the grade. Books with slight color touch can be assigned the Blue World label with slight color touch being noted below the grade.