CGC might be the most-asked about exhibitor at HeroesCon every year–people are interested! Well these many interested parties will be super excited to know that CGC will be back at HeroesCon this year! The Comics Guaranty Company is pretty much the standard for high-order grading and preserving of comics, in a sense “locking” the condition so that if you ever need to sell a book or get an insurance quote or whatnot, a respected grader has taken care of it for you. For a fee of course, but hey–this is America.

I need to check with Shelton to see if they’ll be doing “live” grading, but I bet they’ll be accepting books at their booth, which they will ship back to you after the grading process. From what I hear, it’s a HUGELY labor-intensive process, and thus an expensive one to take on the road to cons. I’ll stick an update in here when I find out for sure!

–UPDATE–Textmaster Shelton Drum just sent me this note:

“CGC won’t be doing on-site grading, but will be taking submissions, especially signature series stuff, certifying autographs by all of our attending pros on their comics (for a fee). For instance, the Steve Niles’ signature on the HeroesCon exclusive Mystery Society #1 variants! How about those sketch-cover BOOM! Studios HeroesCon 2010 variants? Deadpool Corps #1 with a special Liefeld mini-print? You betcha! Plus all your old stuff and mint new stuff too!”

Man, sounds like Shelton’s referring to a bunch of stuff we still need to announce, eh? I smell some more (sigh) blogging! Okay stay tuned, sports fans. Also coming pretty soon will be a complete list of the other exhibitors appearing at HeroesCon (huge list, huge list) and their locations. Plus the last of the Small Press locations! Stay tuned!