Condition reports for comic books · free for collectors
Put your book’s condition on the record.
Photos, the flaws a model finds and the seller confirms, the seller’s answers about what photos can’t show, and a rough letter grade. One locked report to share with a buyer or trade partner.
Holding a book with a Ruffgrade code?
How it works
About ten minutes per book
How the grade is built- 01
Photograph it
Front and back. Tap the four corners and the cover is straightened.
- 02
Check the flaws
A model marks spine ticks, corner wear and edge wear. The owner confirms or rejects each one, or says they didn’t check it.
- 03
Answer what photos can’t show
Pages, tape, page color, whether it lies flat. A clean book takes a minute.
- 04
Lock and share
A rough grade, a link, and a card for listing photos. Once shared, the report can’t be edited.
What’s in a report
Seen and said, kept apart
A buyer can tell what came from the photos, what the seller added, and what the seller only told us.
Rough grade
A letter and the range it spans, never a slab number.
Found in the photos
- Spine ticks ×3
Front, spine · up to ⅛″ - Crease, color-breaking
Front, bottom left · ½″ - Stain
Back, top left · 1″ · added by the seller
Each flaw with its size in eighths of an inch and where it is.
Seller says
- All pages there
- Yes
- Lies flat
- Yes
- Page quality
- Cream to Off-White
The seller’s answers about what photos can’t show, in CGC’s page-quality words.
Locked when shared
Locked · seller’s disclosureA shared report is dated and frozen. A change makes a new link, and the old one says so.
Straight talk
What Ruffgrade isn’t
Not a CGC grade
A rough letter band from photos and the seller’s answers. It can’t see inside the book or under a raking light.
Not a referee
It records what each side showed and said. It doesn’t decide disputes.
Not a submission advisor
Don’t send a book to CGC on a rough grade. Most modern books only pay at the very top of the scale.
For marketplaces and collection apps
Condition reports in your listings, without building grading
A versioned API: photos in, findings and a rough grade out. Reports live on ruffgrade.com, so buyers trust them.
API and partners