As of June 16th, CGC now grades Sports Illustrated (SI) and Playboy. While the Certified Guaranty Company has been grading magazine-sized sequential art periodicals (Mad Magazine, Epic, Heavy Metal, et.al.) for more than five years, it is just now starting to extend into magazines not normally associated with collectors. A thicker version of their patented "slab" cover has been introduced to accommodate Playboy Christmas issues and Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues, both of which are larger than usual.
Playboy has a circulation of 3 million monthly (U.S.), which is interesting, since I'd been hearing Playboy was worried about the continued popularity of print... But though I have a modest collection of Playboy and really dig eyeballing super-hot, completely nekkid chicks, I don't have the time to research the whole thing. I'd love to hear from some collectors/experts who could run it down for us. SI has a weekly circulation of about the same (3 million) and apparently has collectibility merit. I assumed some people collected SI, but I did not know it was popular enough to break into the collectibles field.
CGC seems to think they might have had at least a little to do with these magazines becoming more popular as collectibles, and note their magazine-handling capacities are set to expand in the near future.
Given the nature of these periodicals, I'm going to guess a -0.01 for pages stuck together? After all, it's going to be a common flaw.
© C Harris Lynn, 2009
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