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Summary: Poor pricing information
Review: As a previous reviewer noted, some of the pricing in this edition is ludicrous. Prices of comics that continue to spiral upward have been marked down? What is the problem with Overstreet?The truth is that historically Overstreet and other price guides have always based many comic prices in large part on educated or even uneducated guesses. But now the comic buyer or seller can go directly to the definitive authority on the subject-Ebay. When a comic is selling on Ebay for $500 in VF and Overstreet says it's worth $200 in VF, Overtreet is just plain wrong.
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Summary: overstreet coic digest 2000
Review: Hello, I haven't bought the 2001 comic digest because they don't seem to change in price to much so I do every other year. However I found the 2000 book very helpful. The only problem I have is finding Walt Disney comics prices. Usually the dates or the numbers don't match up for some reason. Is there a difference in the price of Goldkey and Whitman. They seem to have run the same comic and number but have different dates. Usually the whitman comic has the different date. I have some disney comics that I have not been able to price because I can't find them. Example: Huey Duey Louie #13 has a whitman and a Goldkey, the goldkey is dated 1972 and the whitman is dated 1969, what is the difference. The price on the comic itself tells me that the whitman is also a 1972. What is the difference?
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Summary: Hey, Kids! Comics!
Review: Hello, my name is Frank. My good buddy Zaggy was kind enough to let me come in on Saturdays and write a weekly review to put up on his space! Yep, ol' Zaggy is a warm, caring, and decent human being-- I don't care what everyone else says! Anyway, for this review I've decided to talk about the latest edition of the annual Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. Being both a comic book collector and a comic shop employee, this guide is twice as useful to me! Although the Wizard monthly guide magazine displays more up-to-date listings, it only covers prices for the most popular titles. The Overstreet Guide is a lot more comprehensive, and lists values for just about every issue you can imagine, including those obscure and less-popular titles that the Wizard monthly simply doesn't have the space to list. There's hundreds of pages of listings & prices in this here book, and whatever off-the-wall comic book you may own, you'll more'n likely find it here! From the Golden Age all the way thru Silver, Bronze, and-um-Aluminum Ages, the Overstreet gives all the great periods of comic books a good deal of coverage! Also included is a neat guide to grading a comic book's condition! Oops, I gotta go. Ro'y says my break is over, and I need to get back to work. Looks like I'll be usin' the Overstreet guide today after all! G'Bye
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Summary: Poor pricing information
Review: I am writing to say that your magazine is truly spectacular as a comic book collector for a decade and a half now its nice to have a book that truly reflects collectables not just what's hot that month. But I do have one slight peeve that I was hoping your book could have solved over the last 15 years I've gotten quite a few titles in my collection some of which are definetly not mainstream and meant for readers over 18. Brainstorm Comics are the best example to give for this NONE of these titles are listed, I am hoping that in the next issue or two you guys can add this catagory to your book I understand that you have young readers who you need to take into account when publishing, but I think if you give these titles there own catagory perhaps a warning before the section than everybody can win young readers would have no reason to read it and those of us who have come across these titles and have them sitting in our collections can have an accurate value given to them. Thanks and keep up the good work.
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Summary: Comic Collecting and Information Right At Your Fingertips
Review: I have been an on again/off again/on again type of collector. I started collecting back in the mid 70's when I really didn't know what/how to collect (age 9). Sometime in the early 80's, I found a book that had information within, that explained some of the confusion about collecting. The book explained what type of comics were worth collecting (aka pricing) and explained (in the best terms of that time) how a collector should properly care for the comics in their collection. It also explained how a comics condition could be determined. There were also articles relating to the authors/writers/inkers/publishers of the comics I was collecting. The name of that book was the Overstreet Price Guide. The # was 13. What caught my eye initially about the book was that it had my favorite superhero on the cover (Superman) and there were many pictures of some of the most expensive comic books. Throughout the years, the Overstreet price guide has reflected well upon the different aspects of comic collecting. With issue #31, the Overstreet Price Guide reflected upon the newer standard of grading. It mentioned a little about CGC and predicted that CGC would not die out, but become a better stronghold in the industry. With CGC, a person could command a better price for their collected memory. With e-Bay starting to show some of the sales in the market, CGC was a natural for online reliablility. There were other articles in the book as well. Wonderwoman and the Fantastic Four had their history explained. There were articles about Murphy Anderson, the story of Palmer Cox, information about Bendis, information about 1st appearances, crossovers, and so much more. Yes, the Price Guide is about pricing, but it covers many other areas of collecting. It has so much information to the point that it is a collectible in and of itself. A collector that doesn't consider investment potential, is a foolish collector in my opinion. Yes, a person should purchase a comic because it has some meaning to them. I buy for the stories/art, or pivotal meaning, but in a day and age where layoffs happen to someone you know everywhere in the country, or other hardships occur that could be eased by the knowledge that this book could provide (which issues might be profitable over the long run), it makes sense to understand the importance of what you collect. The price guide is but a tool. If all you buy the book for is for the pricing, then I would suggest it might not be the book for you. If you are a true collector though, a great deal of information lies at your fingertips when you own this book. One of the best features that I like about it, is that the price guide lists dealers. Without this book, I would have to go to great efforts to find a store that I can buy rare comics from. Just recently, I purchased Action Comics #17 from Metropolis Comics. Would I have known where to find this without the price guide? Possibly. But what effort would I have had to go through? Within a week, I had located a copy. I tried looking everywhere in my own hometown. NOBODY had one available within a 4 city radius. I say that there is a reason many people consider this book, "The BIBLE of the comic book industry." To the person asking about Whitman and Gold Key (sorry, don't know how to e-mail you), the difference is in reprints. Gold Key started the line and Whitman finished it. Whitman also reprinted the earlier stories as well (which may be why you are seeing two different indicia) They didn't always state they were reprints back then. The main difference was the logo on the cover. Some people find no price difference whereas others find Gold Key over the Whitman. Because the reprint line (Whitman) wasn't produced with the same volume that Gold Key was, some people find Whitman more collectable than the Gold Key. As to worth, it mainly goes by the collector. In any case, the price shouldn't be too far off of what you see in the guide though. Hope that helps.
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Summary: Trimmed back, seriously incomplete
Review: I have bought many of Overstreet's Price Guide issues, including every one of the first twenty years. Every year it became more and more accurate and comprehensive and I depended on it to give me details on almost every comic in existence including underground comics and limited editions. I got out of the comics scene for a while and then decided to start selling some of my old collection I didn't read much any more, so I bought the most recent issue. I was shocked! Except for the most common titles, most issues I had weren't even listed! Even issues like Mickey Mouse Album #1 from 1962 was missing. Where there had been several columns of listings per page, there were now only two, to make room for a completely unnecessary breakdown of prices by conditions so fine that it's laughable. I find it hard to figure out whom this book is supposed to serve. If the book you're researching is at all rare, then you would like to see it in this book, not find out that it's too rare to bother with. With the huge numbers of advertisements in the book, the price is outrageous! Sorry, I can't recommend it for ANYONE who is a serious comics fan.
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Summary: SAVED ME A FORTUNE!
Review: I've had an interest in comics for quite a while now and decided to find out the value on my own comic books. Not only has this book given me the guide value of these comics it has allowed me to find new comic series to buy as well. The book gives you market values for all comic books so that when you go to purchase comics to add to your collection you will not be [cheated]! After browsing through this book you will find out which comics can become real investments. I highly recommend this book and will continue to buy each new addition as it becomes available.
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Summary: Don't forget to save the old guides!
Review: It goes without saying that Overstreet is the best of the reference guides for pricing comics. Perhaps I have too much time on my hands, but it is also good for a little browsing in your spare time with its articles, cover reproductions, and odd facts. I would also say that it is completely comprehensive, except that I noticed that the 1967 copy of Captain Johner and the Aliens published by Gold Key seems to be missing from some editions....
One important thing to keep in mind is that the guides themselves become collectibles. I always used to discard my old "obsolete" copy when I got a more recent one- now I see that some of the older editions that I threw out are worth big bucks. ARRRRRGH!
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Summary: False prices- This edition is a joke...dont waste your money
Review: 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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Summary: Once a collector, ALWAYS a comics fan
Review: 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.
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