What's Buzzing: Iconic cards under $10, Julio Rodriguez, talking comics, graded card chatter, new MLB pulls and preseason NFL in this Saturday edition.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Aaron Judge keeps on homering, MLB breaks, that Red Sox loss, The National and more.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Big pulls, ranking NFL QBs, NBA chatter, a strong Star Trek break and more.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Imaginary cards, MLB licensing chatter, new pulls and lots of big words like "morphological transformations."

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Stadium Club arrives, Wander Franco, card centering, The National and some MLB breaks in this Saturday edition.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Pondering the best on-card auto set for MLB, a vintage condition question, the future of the hockey card market, MLB breaks, Marcell Ozuna and more.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: New breaks, heavy grading chatter, Trevor Lawrence, Project70, under-appreciated Hall of Famers and more.

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How do you help grade a backlog of cards that's in the millions?

Software.

PSA revealed on Wednesday that it has acquired Genamint to "improve and scale the process by which PSA handles trading card submissions." The company's technology "analyzes each trading card in real-time and is able to provide diagnostics, measurements and detect alterations or other changes made to a card’s surface in an effort to assist human graders." According to a prepared release, "it will also provide unique card identification – or 'card fingerprinting' – by identifying the exact card in order to track provenance, resubmissions, condition changes and other attributes over time."

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: NBA chatter, new grading, ESPN gets the NHL, scratch removal, a printing plate from 1997 and never tell me the odds.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing: Tiger Woods, Topps Chrome UFC potential, pondering print runs and more in today's edition.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Angels throw a no-hitter for Tyler Skaggs, important threads taking a turn, non-sports breaks, The National and more.

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PSA has added a new feature as part of its grading services that lets collectors verify cardboard on the company's website.

It's called SecureScan and it means that front and back scans of cards can be seen online, and it's now available to all PSA customers using five levels of service -- Super Express, Walk-Through, Premium, Premium Plus and Premium Elite.

“This is a significant step to help collectors with security measures as well as marketing opportunities for their collectibles,” said PSA President Steve Sloan in a prepared release. “People can now view images of the exact item we authenticated, graded and encapsulated right on our Cert Verification page. This is extremely useful for those collectors looking to verify the details of an item, including its certification number, before they purchase it.”

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Yordan Alvarez, The National, 2019 Topps Series 2 pulls, NBA breaks and more in today's edition.

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The Blowout Cards Forums are where thousands of collectors converge daily to discuss, well, a little bit of everything. Here are a few threads about collecting and more that you should check out right now.

What's Buzzing Today: Nothing but baseball today -- everything from "alteration vs. conservation," Shohei Ohtani's return, Vladdy 2.0, Cody Bellinger and more.

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Buzz has been doing a lot more grading in the last year and it's not the easiest thing to do -- you have to be ruthless in your cardboard scrutiny, smart about your submissions and willing to take the chance that you'll not come out ahead with what you grade.

Here are five tips I've got after doing a lot more slab submitting ...

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Newly graded cards from PSA will arrive with a new look to their flips inside the slabs.

A new "lighthouse logo" is the centerpiece with it reflecting light and also connecting to the red trim of the paper insert is joined by "fugitive ink" in the background.

So why the change?

“As the market grows, it is imperative that we continue to look for ways to improve our services and the quality of our products," said a statement from the company. "This includes enhancing the security features on the holders and labels used during our authentication/grading process. The newly-incorporated security features represent the single largest leap forward during our 26-year history. The new PSA label not only offers vastly superior technology and capabilities; it has also received a stylistic makeover as we look to take our leading brand well into the future."

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With Bowman Draft officially arriving tomorrow, eBay will undoubtedly be buzzing with the newest can't-miss future stars' first MLB cards.

But Bowman's not just a big deal for high-grade Chromes and Superfractors. Vintage Bowman in top grade -- like this 1954 Bowman Mickey Mantle -- can generate some looks, too.

This card, in its grade, is a 1/1 specimen. It's a card that can give any Superfractor a run for its graded money without any of those golden swirls or a dollop of autograph ink.

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