CGC Announces In-House Private Signing with Comic Book Letterer Tom Orzechowski

CGC is excited to announce that we will be hosting an exclusive In-House Private Signing event with Tom Orzechowski! He is an award winning letterer who has been lettering since 1973. Throughout his career, Orzechowski has worked on top tier books for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and Image Comics. In addition to signing, he will be offering a limited amount of Remarques for purchase. See pricing and details below.

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From the mid 1970s to the early 1990s, Orzechowski lettered nearly 150 issues of Uncanny X-Men, and had concurrent runs on New Mutants and Wolverine, plus offshoot graphic novels, annuals and miniseries. He also had stints on Jungle Action/Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Warlock, Avengers, Captain America, Invaders and Iron Man.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Tom was also the letterer on manga titles such as Appleseed, Dirty Pair, and Ghost in the Shell. He has worked with Image Comics since its inception, and has lettered Spawn, a series that has topped 300 issues, since issue one. Orzechowski has been the recipient of many of the industry's leading awards over the course of his career including the Harvey Award, Inkpot Award and Wizard Fan Award.

For this exclusive event, ALL CGC members, including free CGC members, can submit books directly to CGC headquarters in Sarasota, Florida. CGC must receive all submissions for this event by Friday, August 11, 2023.

If the In-House Private Signing needs to be rescheduled, CGC will securely store all submissions in its vault until the event can be rescheduled.

After Orzechowski signs the submitted books, CGC will grade and encapsulate them with an estimated turnaround time of six weeks. If CCS pressing is also requested, the turnaround time is estimated at eight weeks. After grading and encapsulation, the collectibles will be shipped back to their owners.

The CGC In-House Private Signing fee for Tom Orzechowski is $85 per item and includes:

• Tom Orzechowski’s signature
• Estimated turnaround time of six weeks for CGC grading
• Estimated turnaround time of eight weeks for CGC grading and CCS pressing (an additional $20 fee applies for CCS pressing)
• Encapsulation with the iconic yellow CGC Signature Series label

The CGC In-House Private Signing fee for a Tom Orzechowski Remarque is $120 per item and includes:

• Tom Orzechowski’s illustrated Remarque. Remarque requests should be no longer than five letters, excluding punctuation. Submitters may request the desired Remarque. Important: The final design and subject matter of the Remarque is at the artist’s discretion. CGC cannot guarantee Remarque requests. Limited to the first 100 submitters.
• Tom Orzechowski’s signature
• Estimated turnaround time of six weeks for CGC grading
• Estimated turnaround time of eight weeks for CGC grading and CCS pressing (an additional $20 fee applies for CCS pressing)
• Encapsulation with the iconic yellow CGC Signature Series label

Submission Instructions

For this CGC Private Signing event, you can ship submissions directly to CGC with a FREE membership. Paid memberships are also available and include additional benefits. For more information and to join, visit CGCcomics.com/join.

To submit books for the signing:

• Log onto your account or sign up for an account HERE.
• Click Submit in the CGC website navigation and select Submission Forms.
• Next to Comics / Magazines, select Online Form.
• Select Comic or Magazine from the drop-down menu, then select Private Signing and one of the following from the dropdown menu section:
  TOM ORZECHOWSKI, SIGNATURE; TOM ORZECHOWSKI, REMARQUE.
• Under Services, select Grading and, if you would like it, Pressing. Then hit Next in the top right section of the form.
• Enter the information requested for your comic, and make sure to check the box next to TOM ORZECHOWSKI under Private Signing Details.
• On the next screen, you can add one of CGC’s custom Marvel labels to your submission for qualifying books.
• Select Add to Cart, and then repeat if there are additional books in your submission. If there are no additional books in your submission, click on the cart icon and proceed to checkout.
• Note: If you want to submit magazines, please group them together on their own private signing form separate from comic submissions. The same rule applies for any custom labels. Please group them together on their own private signing form separate from non-custom labels. To see the available labels, click HERE.
• Put ALL ungraded books in window bags or they will not be accepted. You can purchase window bags HERE.
• Books that are already certified by CGC, including CGC Signature Series books, can be submitted for this event. CGC will remove a CGC-certified book from its holder for an additional $5 fee.
• Carefully package books in a box for shipment. If you need a CGC shipping kit, they can be purchased HERE.
• IMPORTANT: Please write TO on all sides of the outside of the box. You must initial outside of the box or we will not be able to honor the submission for this signing.
• Books will be received into the CGC system when they arrive and will be safely stored by CGC until the event. (Please note: Payments are processed as they normally are at the time of the collectibles’ arrival at CGC.)
• Once books are signed, they will start an expedited CGC grading process.

PLEASE NOTE:

All submissions must be received by CGC no later than Friday, August 11, 2023, to qualify for this private signing event. No change requests will be accepted after Friday, August 11, 2023.

Membership credits cannot be applied to CGC Private Signings.

*No Multi-Sigs included with other signings.

**If you submit a CGC-graded collectible that needs to be removed from its original holder by CGC, the collectible will need to go through the certification and encapsulation process again, and there is no guarantee that it will receive the same grade.

***Marker color requests are welcome, but not guaranteed. Marker color choice and signature placement is at the final discretion of the signer.