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4GEMWORKS – John Verzyl Sr. Registry Masterpiece Award CGC is proud to announce this year’s John Verzyl Sr. Registry Masterpiece Award goes to 4GEMWORKS! John Verzyl Sr. was an integral part of the hobby for decades and touched many people’s lives in the comic collecting community. CGC continues to honor his memory through this award. You can read more about John Verzyl Sr. here. 4GEMWORKS is a long-time member of the CGC Registry joining us way back in 2004, and has since registered over 100 competitive sets primarily in the Golden and Silver Age. 4GEMWORKS has won previously for some of these sets, including the Four Color Complete set, presented with a wonderful set description with a lot of interesting personal touches. We’d like to highlight some of the other sets that 4GEMWORKS has in this expansive collection, the first being the always-fun Archie, with the #1 ranked Archie Extravaganza (Archie #1-#200) set. Collectors of Archie will know how scarce high grades are in this series, but 4GEMWORKS has some nice examples with issues #21, #36, #56 and #118 in 8.0. Single digit issues are extraordinarily tough and the first three in this set are some of the lowest populations on the census, with issue #1 being one of 69, and #2 and #3 one of less than 50. This is a great set with slots to fill but is a worthy work in progress! For some of E.C.’s coolest and creepy covers look no further than 4GEMWORKS Haunt of Fear collection . This set is likely to make E.C. collectors murderous with envy! Filled with high grade Gaines file copies, high resolution images and great owner comments, this set is a real screamer! Your jaw might actually fall off when you see that this it boasts three 9.8’s – all which are 1 of less than 10 in the grade on the census – and these sit alongside the rest of their counterparts with most in 9.4 or better. A ghoulishly gorgeous set to be sure! All E.C. and horror fans should crawl, drag, or shuffle themselves over to cast an eye (or two!) on it. If you’re the sort of collector that like ‘em as rare as they come, then 4GEMWORKS has the set to see. The 4GEMWORKS Marvel 35 Cent Variant Collection is as unbelievable as it is impressive. Many of these books are incredibly hard to come by, but for some, you’d be digging in long boxes for the rest of your days trying to track them down! 4GEMWORKS has a great backstory for how many of these books were acquired in the set description and gives a custom rating scale for the difficulty of finding each issue in the owner comments. Some of the grails of this set include the Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #141 in an astounding 9.2, Rawhide Kid #141 in 5.5, and of course Scooby Doo #1 in a beautiful 7.0. This set is fantastic and we highly recommend checking it out! We can’t say enough about 4GEMWORKS presence on the CGC Registry and all of the collecting contributions made throughout the years. We hope to see many more years of filling in the gaps and hopefully the addition of new sets to the fold. Congratulations 4GEMWORKS for all of your collecting achievements and the 2022 John Verzyl Sr Registry Masterpiece award!