Comics Buyer's Guide Standard Catalog Of Comic Books - Softcover

Miller, John Jackson; Thompson, Maggie; Bickford, Peter; Frankenhoff, Brent; Butler, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087349993X ISBN 13: 9780873499934

Publisher: Krause Pubns Inc, 2005

Synopsis

As the demand for new and vintage comic books soars, Standard Catalog of(r) Comic Books delivers an unparalleled volume of comic book history and up-to-date prices.

Now in its 4th edition, this reference features more than 5,000 new issues and over 50,000 new facts about comic books published in North America in the last 70 years. Each listing provides collectors and dealers with original price, cover date, creator names, story titles, character appearances, original print runs, sales figures, and more. This edition gives enthusiasts something they won't find in any other comic book guide - updated information from the monthly price guide magazine, Comics Buyer's Guide, the world's longest-running comics magazine.

-2,000 photos assist collectors with quick identification

-Prices based on online auctions and sales data

-5,000+ new issues are featured in this collectors' favorite

About this title

About the Author:

John Jackson Miller, editorial director of F+W Publications' comics & games division, is also the current writer of Marvel Comics' acclaimed Iron Man comic book series. Maggie Thompson is one of the founders of comics fandom. She is a long-time, widely quoted expert. Brent Franknehof, has collected comics for more than 30 years to build a collection that spans more than 60 years of comics. Peter Bickford, creator of the most comprehensive and critically acclaimed software for comics collectors, along with the co-authors, has released a companion edition to this volume.

From Library Journal:

The publisher of the weekly Comics Buyers Guide, Krause releases an annual CBG Checklist and Price Guide as a competitor to the long-running standard, The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. Now, Krause has combined the annual guide with information in the CD-ROM "ComicBase" (from Human Computing) and much new research to compile this massive volume. With over 145,000 entries, it attempts to list all English-language comics sold in America, all English-language graphic novels and comic-book reprint collections published in North America, many giveaway comics, and magazines such as MAD and Heavy Metal that feature extensive comics content. For each listing, it gives the title, publisher, original cover price (in all but a few cases), and value in near-mint condition, with a multiplier given to determine prices in higher and lower grades. In most cases it also provides a cover date, and for some comics it gives story titles, writer and artist names, character appearances, and circulation information collected from publishers and distributors. There are also over 2200 short reviews of selected series, each illustrated with a sample picture. The catalog also supplies data on comics that have been graded by Comics Guaranty LLC, a third-party service that has been evaluating comics since 2000, and also gives a general multiplier showing how much this grading increases the average sale price. Spot-checking reveals some missing books (such as the "Elfquest Readers Collection" series) and some minor errors (the first Blackhawk series is attributed to DC when it was initially published by Quality), but some mistakes are inevitable in an undertaking of this scope. A comparison with the latest edition of The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (2002. 32d ed.) shows that both contain much exclusive information. Overstreet does not include reviews or circulation data, but it has an exclusive section on pre-1933 comics-related publications. Also, it generally provides better cross references from one series to another and contains much exclusive descriptive information, including notes on character appearances and the scarcity of certain comics. But the Standard CatalogR includes many black-and-white comics, including manga, that are not included in Overstreet. The prices listed in Overstreet are generally the higher of the two: as an extreme example, if anyone finds copies of Limited Collector's Edition #C-20 (the first Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer treasury edition) for sale at the $3 price quoted by Krause, this reviewer will take 30-Overstreet lists it at $310. Highly recommended for all libraries as a supplement to, but not a replacement for, the Overstreet guide.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Krause Pubns Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 087349993X
• ISBN 13: 9780873499934
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1608