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Title: The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 33rd edition by ROBERT M OVERSTREET ISBN: 1-4000-4668-8 Publisher: House of Collectibles Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Once a collector, ALWAYS a comics fan
Comment: The Overstreet Price Guide has always been an unbeatable reference/entertainment bargain. In this edition, boasting nearly a thousand pages, you get feature articles (this time out on Superman, Spider-Man and Archie), a market report, the exhaustive price guide listings (erudite essays by leading experts preface each "age" of comics) and everything you need to know about the care and feeding of comics: grading, collecting, preservation and storage, buying and selling, and so on. The guide's famous cover gallery - thirty-six sumptuous pages of four-color masterpieces - by itself justifies the purchase price.
My collecting years well behind me, I picked up this edition of the OPG for the express purpose of appraising a few duplicate comics I wanted to sell on eBay. Soon, however, my on again, off again love affair with comics was passionately rekindled, and I was deep in the throes of browsing mania. The OPG is insidiously addictive, whether your interest in comics is based on collecting, investing, pop culture or just plain old nostalgia. My modest collection of mainly Silver Age Marvels has priceless sentimental value, and only utter financial ruin could induce me to sell it. Still, it's fun to check values periodically and to enjoy the purely masochistic thrill of looking up key issues I wish I had been savvy enough to buy way back when. (Such as the Holy Grail of Spidey-philes like me, "Amazing Fantasy" #15, whose sinfully high current value in near mint condition assures that I will never own it now!)
The OPG is like a politically incorrect clubhouse for boys of all ages and a "no girls allowed" sign is not so subtly implied. The book is pre-occupied with and gleefully celebrates the stuff that boys and men love: action and more action, gore and more gore, and girls, girls, girls. Archaic references to "headlights" and "Good Girl Art" abound in the price listings. In the cover gallery, feminine pulchritude rules. The hobby has female fans and the OPG does acknowledge them, but it's safe to say comicdom will forever remain a mighty bastion of manly ideals. (Yeah, baby!)
The book's market report points up some disturbing trends. Once a boys club admitting anyone with a pocketful of change, comic book fandom is looking more like a very exclusive Rich Boys Club these days. According to the report, somebody paid $350,000 in 2001 for a high grade copy of the legendary Golden Age "Marvel Comics" #1 - the most ever paid for a single comic. Likewise, key Silver Age comics are fetching house mortgage-sized figures. Investors with very deep pockets dominate the ad pages of the OPG, offering vast amounts of cash for key books or whole collections. Such high-rolling doesn't bode well for a hobby that should be all about fun, not trophies and greed.
It's also chic these days for a collector to have his valuable comic graded by a company of super-experts, who proceed to encase the book in an archival plastic holder with a score on the front. The result is a comic book preserved for eternity, but nobody can enjoy it ever again. You can have your trophies - I'm fine with my stained, spine-rolled, subscription-creased Spideys with my name scrawled all over the covers. Poor, but fine.
Rating: 4
Summary: All-encompassing tome for collectors
Comment: This book is the definitive source for comic book prices for the hobbyist to the professional dealer. You will be able to find a price for every comic in your collection, from the Platinum Age (1900-1938) on up through the Modern Age (1980 to present).
My only wish is that Overstreet would present more examples (photos especially) of what to look for when grading a comic. That would go a long way in helping collectors accurately grade their comics.
Rating: 1
Summary: False prices- This edition is a joke...dont waste your money
Comment: Look carefully in this edition and you will see that most prices have gone DOWN, which is a joke. It states that an Amazing Spider-man #1 in VF goes for $500 less than last year, which is a joke. Try finding a good deal on EBAY. Fantastic Four #48, the 1st silver surfer, use to fly on EBAY for discount prices, now low grades sell at book prices easy and mid-to high grades above...and the price has dropped in this "price guide". If you look carefully most mid to mid-high grades have gone down in this book across the board. Last I looked the comic business was booming, when talking to all sellers and comparing ebay sales. This book is a joke and it's time for a new "definitve priceguide" Dont waste your hard earned money here. Overstreet should be ashamed.
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Title: The Official Overstreet Comic Book Grading Guide by Robert M Overstreet ISBN: 0609810529 Publisher: House of Collectibles Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: 2003 Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide: 1961 To Present (Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide, 2003) by Brent Frankenhoff, Peter Bickford, Maggie Thompson, John Jackson Miller ISBN: 0873494709 Publisher: Krause Publications Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Standard Catalog of Comic Books (Standard Catalog of Comic Books) by Maggie Thompson, Peter Bickford, Brent Frankenhoff, John Jackson Miller ISBN: 0873497198 Publisher: Krause Publications Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Comics Values Annual 2003: The Comic Book Price Guide (Comics Values Annual, 2003) by Alex G. Malloy, Stewart W. Wells, Robert J. Sodaro ISBN: 087349573X Publisher: Antique Trader Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title:Comic Buyers Guide ASIN: B000066T08 Publisher: Krause Publishers List Price(USD): $182.00 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $33.95 |
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