National security attorney, historian, comic book dealer, and Overstreet Advisor Mark Zaid has joined The Certified Guaranty Company (CGC) as a consultant and outside counsel. In his new capacity, Zaid will audit and analyze various aspects of the company’s operations, particularly in order to help shape the integration of CCG’s newest member company, the restoration removal and pressing entity Classics Incorporated.

According to CGC, Classics Incorporated will be renamed Classic Collectibles Services in the near future, and one of Zaid’s tasks will be to ensure that the integration of a pressing service with a grading business will not impact the professionalism and ethics of CGC’s process.

“By retaining Mark as both counsel and consumer advocate, CGC is being proactive in striving to give our customers both a voice within CGC and ensure industry best practices. In turn, this move will make CGC a better, stronger company,” said Steve Eichenbaum, CCG CEO. “As always, CGC is dedicated to support and do what’s best for the hobby.”

“I am very pleased to have been asked to play this role for CGC and help ensure the company maintains the highest level of integrity, professionalism and ethics. There is no doubt that the stronger CGC is the better it is for the comic book community. The two are now inseparable,” Zaid said.

In addition to founding EsquireComics.com, Zaid is also co-founder of the Comic Book Collecting Association, of which Eichenbaum serves on the Board of Advisors, and frequently lectures on historic and comic book-related topics.