{"id":300,"date":"2021-02-26T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2021-02-26T09:20:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:20:04","slug":"slabbing-comics-cgc-census-retrospective-the-first-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/2021\/slabbing-comics-cgc-census-retrospective-the-first-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Slabbing Comics &#8211; CGC Census Retrospective &#8211; The First Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/firsttwoyears_gp_designed_graphic-1024x601.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-301\" width=\"407\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/firsttwoyears_gp_designed_graphic-1024x601.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/firsttwoyears_gp_designed_graphic-300x176.png 300w, http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/firsttwoyears_gp_designed_graphic-768x451.png 768w, http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/firsttwoyears_gp_designed_graphic.png 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 85vw, 407px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first CGC graded comic book was Walt Disney Comics &amp; Stories #1 (Dell Publishing, 1940) \u2013 CGC Serial #0000001001 (Invoice 0000001, Item 001), originally graded November 9, 1999.&nbsp; CGC opened to the public on January 1, 2000, bringing the \u201cslab\u201d concept from coins and cards to the comic book market.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Take a closer look at CGC\u2019s first 100,000 graded comics.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first comic books submitted to CGC provide a \u201csnapshot\u201d of the state of the comic book market and CGC as it was during 2001.\u00a0 The market seems to have moved on from the \u201chot new books of the day\u201d from 2001, but CGC is still spending lots of time grading \u201chot new books of the day\u201d in 2021.\u00a0 Does our past show us our likely future?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article on GPAnalysis.com <a href=\"https:\/\/comics.gpanalysis.com\/news\/2021\/slabbing-comics-cgc-census-retrospective-the-first-two-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first CGC graded comic book was Walt Disney Comics &amp; Stories #1 (Dell Publishing, 1940) \u2013 CGC Serial #0000001001 (Invoice 0000001, Item 001), originally graded November 9, 1999.&nbsp; CGC opened to the public on January 1, 2000, bringing the \u201cslab\u201d concept from coins and cards to the comic book market.&nbsp; Take a closer look &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/2021\/slabbing-comics-cgc-census-retrospective-the-first-two-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slabbing Comics &#8211; CGC Census Retrospective &#8211; The First Two Years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-case-study","category-general-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.slabdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}