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Mark Haspel serves as the President, Primary Grader, and Pedigree Expert. He is one of the world’s leading comic book experts. Mark is considered an expert in the areas of Golden Age comics, Silver Age comics, restoration detection, and pedigree comic books.

At age 11, Mark started working at Tropic Comics in south Florida where he grew up around collectors who bought and sold Golden Age comics for many thousands of dollars. Mark became quite the collector, buying many incredible vintage comic books. Dealing in Golden and Silver Age comics helped Mark support himself through college at the University of Florida, where he received a dual degree in Finance and Business Management. After college, Mark held numerous auctions under the company name Comics on Parade, Inc. and became an active buyer at most national conventions to help his client base fill in their want list of Golden Age comics, with an emphasis on pre-code horror. Selling Golden Age and Silver Age material in a retail setting put Mark in touch with many grading opinions of respected dealers and collectors. As a dealer, he was involved in the discovery of the famous Spokane pedigree collection.

He has consulted on grading for Sotheby's. Mark joined CGC at its inception. As CGC’S top pedigree expert, Mark has reviewed every book submitted to CGC as a pedigree and has seen more predigreed comic books (such as the Edgar Church/Mile High, San Francisco, Pacific Coast, Curators, Gaines File Copy, Allentown, etc.) than almost any other professional. His experience, ranging from restoration detection to pedigree comics to Golden and Silver Age and all the way to Modern books gives him the type of in-depth knowledge perfectly suited for the CGC grading team.