Grading Standards

Our grading standards are based on the standards laid out in the Overstreet Grading Guide with additional experience gained from our 40+ years in the comic industry. We closely monitor and calibrate our staff to maintain adherence to our established standards.

Grading is an inherently subjective process and there will always be small differences in opinion. Even professional grading services like CGC, CBCS, and PGX acknowledge that the same book may not always receive the same grade if it is submitted for grading more than once. While we cannot guarantee that a book graded twice will receive the same grade each time, we can guarantee that every comic we sell has been listed at the grade at which we purchased it.

Comics listed for sale by Wicked n Wanted are listed with one of two types of grades:

• The basic grading scale, also known as letter grades, uses the grades from Near Mint (highest) to Poor (lowest):
  • NM Near Mint  \ VF Very Fine
  • FN Fine    \  VG Very Good
  • GD Good   \  FR Fair
  • PR Poor
• The ten-point grading scale assigns grades ranging from 10.0 (highest) down to 0.5 (lowest):
  • 10.0 GM Gem Mint
  • 9.9 M Mint
  • 9.8 NM/M Near Mint/Mint
  • 9.6 NM+ Near Mint+
  • 9.4 NM Near Mint
  • 9.2 NM- Near Mint-
  • 9.0 VF/NM Very Fine/Near Mint
  • 8.5 VF+ Very Fine+
  • 8.0 VF Very Fine
  • 7.5 VF- Very Fine-
  • 7.0 FN/VF Fine/Very Fine
  • 6.5 FN+ Fine+
  • 6.0 FN Fine
  • 5.5 FN- Fine-
  • 5.0 VG/FN Very Good/Fine
  • 4.5 VG+ Very Good+
  • 4.0 VG Very Good
  • 3.5 VG- Very Good-
  • 3.0 GD/VG Good/Very Good
  • 2.5 GD+ Good+
  • 2.0 GD Good
  • 1.8 GD- Good-
  • 1.5 FR/GD Fair/Good
  • 1.0 FR Fair
  • 0.5 PR Poor