How Does CGC Grade Your Pulp Magazines?

Unlock the secrets of CGC Pulp Grading Standards! 📚✨ Discover why high-grade pulps are a rare gem among collectors and explore the intricacies of grading on the 10-point scale.
🔍 Key Insights:
Pulps, cherished by seasoned collectors, are often scarce in high grades due to manufacturing, reading, and storage methods.
Grades typically range between 2.0 and 4.0, with 6.0 considered high, and 8.0 or higher exceptional.
Learn about the impact of cover overhang on grades and the historical context of collectors trimming covers.
Factory-trimmed pulps and bedsheets stand out for their higher grading potential, yet scarcity and age remain challenges.
📋 CGC Grading Standards for Pulps:
Mirror the standards for comic books on a 10-point scale.
Categories include Universal, Qualified, Restored, and Conserved, with detailed page quality assessments.
Understand the distinctions in grading, including the handling of trimming, unlike comic books.
🤔 Grading Nuances:
Explore the unique treatment of trimming in pulps-allowed in the Universal category rather than classified as restoration.
Gain insights into how missing pages impact grading, with different rules for pulps compared to comic books.
Discover how faded spines, bindery chips, and tears significantly influence grading, especially in high-grade copies.
👁️‍🗨️ Visualize the History:
Dive into the historical quirks of pulp storage, such as faded spines due to exposure to light over time.
Uncover the challenges faced by early collectors, like the fading of deep red spines on popular pulps like Weird Tales.
🔖 CGC Labels Tell the Tale:
Learn how CGC pulp labels meticulously document trimming, missing pages, and other defects.
Understand the impact of grading on a pulp's overall assessment and collector value.
Whether you're a seasoned collector or a newcomer to the world of pulps, this video provides a comprehensive guide to CGC Pulp Grading Standards, ensuring you're equipped with the knowledge to navigate the intricate world of pulp collecting! 🌟📘 #PulpGrading #CGCStandards #CollectiblesGuide

[@davidv.3135]

Treasury size comics next please!

[@TonyDrecaps]

Keep the videos about comics and the history

[@jmourgos55]

What about smaller pulp mags like Astounding Science Fiction? These were digest sized magazines.

[@timhammell394]

All those great covers, and all those possibly great stories and interior illustrations you'll never enjoy again. Sad😢