Authenticate Comics with AI-Powered Software
Restoration and undisclosed alterations are what turn a profitable submission into a purple label and a wasted fee. Check the book before you buy it, sell it, or pay $27–45 to send it to CGC.
- GO / NO-GO / PRESS FIRST
- Grade band + the fee maths
- Expected dollar outcome
Comprehensive Authentication & Verification
Restoration, trimming and married pages all move the money. Catch them before you pay for the book or pay to slab it.
Restoration Detection
AI identifies color touch-up, re-glossing, spine reinforcement, piece fill, tear seals, and other forms of professional or amateur restoration.
Print Variant Identification
Distinguish between first prints, second prints, newsstand editions, direct market copies, and rare variant covers automatically.
Condition Verification
An objective read on the book's real condition — as a grade band, with the money implications attached — before you buy, sell, or submit.
Tamper Detection
Identify signs of trimming, married pages, re-stapled books, and other alterations that affect value and authenticity.
Detailed Analysis Reports
Receive comprehensive reports documenting every aspect of your comic's condition with visual annotations highlighting areas of concern.
Market Value Context
Understand how authentication status affects your comic's market value, with price adjustments for restored vs. unrestored copies.
Buyer Protection Tool
Use before purchasing comics online to verify seller claims about condition and authenticity from listing photos.
Batch Verification
Authenticate entire collections quickly. Ideal for estate acquisitions, bulk purchases, or inventory management.
Built for the people who live in the long boxes.
Will this book pay for its own submission?
CGC is $27–45 a book plus handling and shipping both ways. Find out which of your comics clear that bar — and which ones never will — before the box goes out.
Price it, don't guess it.
A defensible comic grading report on every listing, and a straight answer on whether slabbing it first would net you more than selling it raw.
Raw or slabbed?
See both numbers side by side — what the book fetches raw today against what it fetches slabbed, minus the fee.
Route a whole collection.
Sort a long box by expected net return, then send only the books that clear their own break-even grade.
Skip the costly misfires.
Find out which books are NO-GO before the box goes out, not 45 days after it comes back.
Priced against one wasted submission.
Pay once, per decision. No subscription, and nothing to cancel — because deciding whether to slab a book is something you do a few times a year, not every month.
Every visitor
Costs you nothing and proves we can read the book.
- Grade band with a confidence level
- No card, no account
- Unlimited on the books you own
One book that might be worth real money
Against the $27–45 you are about to spend on a book that might come back a 7.5.
- The verdict: GO, NO-GO or PRESS FIRST
- The arithmetic — raw comp, slabbed comp, tier fee, net
- Subgrades and an annotated defect map
- What happens if it grades half a point under
- Guest checkout — no account needed
Up to 10 books, ranked
CGC's cheapest per-book tier needs 25 books. One you shouldn't have sent costs more than this.
- Everything in Single Verdict
- Up to 10 books ranked by expected net return
- An explicit send-these, skip-the-rest call
- Built for the 25-book bulk minimum
Inherited, downsizing, estate sale
Less than two CGC submissions, across a whole collection.
- Everything in Lot Verdict
- Up to 50 books assessed
- The attention list — what actually matters
- A submission plan by tier
Running a shop, or moving volume on eBay? Dealer plans bill monthly and include API access.
Authentication Software FAQ
Can AI really detect comic book restoration?
Yes. Our AI is trained on thousands of examples of both restored and unrestored comics. It can detect color touch-up, re-glossing, spine reinforcement, and other common restoration techniques by analyzing color consistency, texture patterns, and surface characteristics.
How does variant identification work?
The AI analyzes cover art, printing characteristics, barcode/UPC details, and paper quality to distinguish between first prints, later prints, newsstand editions, and variant covers.
Does this replace professional authentication services?
AI authentication is an excellent first-line screening tool. For high-value purchases or formal certification, we recommend using ComicMintAI for initial verification followed by CGC or CBCS certification when needed.
Can I use this to verify comics before buying online?
Absolutely. If a seller provides photos, you can upload them to ComicMintAI for an AI assessment of the comic's condition and authenticity before making a purchase decision.
What kinds of tampering can the AI detect?
Our AI can identify trimmed pages, married covers, re-stapled books, cleaned or pressed comics, color touch-up, re-glossing, and other alterations that may not be disclosed by sellers.
Check It Before the Money Moves
A restored copy you paid full price for, or a submission fee spent on a book that comes back purple-label — both are avoidable. Check the book first.
GO · NO-GO · PRESS FIRST — with the expected dollar outcome beside it.