Free comic book value and price guide finder comic book. However, there are plenty of shades of gray, and comic book lovers respect this fact. The caped crusader and his sidekick, robin, have been around since the late 1930s. The hobbizine comic book value guide provides market prices for stamps in all grades from good to mint. In other words, it takes a dealer time to sort, bag, board and price any comic book. Each page includes current market values in ten different grades, as well as a section for real market data, actual prices fetched at auction. Comic book price guides, like overstreet, have a minimum price for comic books. Unfollow comic book price guide to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Comic cover prices have skyrocketed over the past 30 years. Particularly in recent years, comic book publishers have tended to adopt a model where each monthly issue of the book in question is a single installment of a longer storyarc. We make every possible effort to only report on the price paid for individual comics. The issue a lot of people overlook is that prior to the 1990s boom, comic books were typically thought of as disposable like newspapers and magazines and thrown out, destroyed, or lost without much thought.
About this time the first comic books were published, including famous funnies which reprinted scorchy smith and buck rogers. Find the value of the marvel comic new mutants volume 1. The extreme law enforcement star of britains 2000ad has been running for over thirty years, with each year of real time equaling one year of comic. Every comic book has a area on the first page all the way at the bottom that lists information such as,issue number,print date,publisher etc. Every other week, there was a new special first collectors issue, another holo cover or glossy cover, and another purportedly industrychanging story line. That really depends on the comic books popularity, the condition its in, and how old the book is. On the one hand, you have clearcut examples of zod trying to take over the world and superman stepping in to protect the human race. Search over 3 million price reports spanning art, antiques, coins, collectibles, memorabilia, and other tangible assets of value.
Whether you want to pare down or keep adding to it is up to you, but in order to sell or buy comics for the right price, you need to know what everything is worth to. Updated and added to every day, it will eventually list all significant british comics published and all marvel and dc comics that were either officially distributed or non distributed in the uk. How much is my comic book collection worth,comic book values. If you discover an old collection full of batman comics. I look at the cover price of a book before anything else. Price guides are also important tools for collectors looking to sell their collection or determine their collections worth for insurance purposes. In the 40s 60s there was broad diversity in genre of comics. This is my actual clz comic collection the cool thing about this software is there are multiple ways to get your data into the system. Comic books are like oil in that they are traded in u.
Obviously, we track values for comics but we also track the number of times a book is searched. Comic book price guides are generally monthly, quarterly, or yearly publications which detail the changes in the resale value of a comic over a period of time. When more than one comic is offered in a particular listing, the entire sale is disregarded. In the early 1990s, comic books or comicbooks, as industry veterans call them were becoming very gimmick oriented. What books are increasing in value other than af15. Comic book value guide how to value your comics in 3 easy steps. Official overstreet comic book price guide companion sc 1990 4th edition. Crime, horror, jungle, boxing, teen, romance, hillbilly, sports, racing, funny. Graphic novels are much longer and tend to be much more complex. The digital download will give you instant value and pricing access to virtually ever comic ever published. The video and resources below will help you find the best way to get current prices and values of your comic books, whether you own only a couple or thousands here we go. View market values for books, store your collection, and. How has the content of comic books evolved over the years.
While it has improved in the last 15 years again, id say diversity of genre has seen the biggest shifts. From the authoritative stuff at comics buyers guide, the worlds longest running magazine about comics, comic book price guide is the only guide on the market to give you extensive coverage of more than 150,000 comics from the golden age of the 1930s to current releases in addition to the thousands of comic books from such publishers as marvel, dc, dark. Or are you just interested in the world of collecting. Overstreet comic book price guide the overstreet guide is a must have if you have a lot of comics, are already a collector or plan on having a lot of comics. There are even some older books, dating back to the golden age, which simply arent coveted by many collectors. Like anything else, comic book value is very subjective. Welcome to the comic book price guide that has been 25 years in the making.
Books from the 80s up to the more recent stuff, im sorry to say, probably wont be worth more than a happy meal at micky ds. How to download a free comic book price guide pen and. By contrast, when the walking dead first hit comic book shops in october 2003, you had to be one of the lucky 7,000 to buy a copy. At you will not only be able to check on comic book prices using our free comic book price guide, but you can also add comic books to your collection to track their progress over time. The weakening canadian dollar got me to thinking about the effect it is having, if any, on the back issue comic book market. A carnival of comics, the first modern american comic book, is published. We have values for any marvel, dc, image, idw, darkhorse, or dell comic book that is in your collection. The biggest jump seemed to be between 1985 and 1990. One possible justification is that publication time does not equal the passage of time in the book. At the end of the thirties original material began appearing in.
Movies are sending some comics values skyrocketing. Price guide app a free comic book price guide that has lots of cgc graded prices top selling comic books 2014 we track all the top sales all year long and list them overstreet comic book price guides highly recommend you picking up a copy even if its not the current edition. Official overstreet comic book price guide companion sc 1989 3rd edition. A look at comic prices and price inflation over the years. From our humble beginnings, we have grown to the largest, most complete comic book price guide with well over 1,000,000 comics in our database. Calling something a graphic novel isnt just a fancy way of saying comic book. However, there are certain guidelines for grading and pricing books. You can also connect with others in the comic industry to further and enhance everyones comic experience. On the other hand, when time travel is done right, it makes for some of the most compelling stories ever told. Caniffs terry and the pirates and steve canyon were very elegantly written and were huge successes. The searchable database consists of more than 100,000 pages, each devoted to a specific comic book. The minimum price is not a real reflection of market value.
Official overstreet comic book price guide companion sc 1988 2nd edition. Comic book collectors may notice that their collection keeps getting bigger and bigger. That theme repeats itself in every universe multiple times. These include the later 10 cent issues and all 12 cent issues, which ended in mid1969. With time travel once again becoming a major comic book trope. Gocollect can now put you in touch with highly respected buyers and sellers in the comic book industry. While a comic book will tell a story over many issues, graphic novels more often have their storylines wrapped up in only one or two books. Official overstreet comic book price guide companion sc 2008 38th edition. The prices found here are derived from numerous sources such as dealer price lists, advertisements in collecting publications, and. We follow a strict set of guidelines in order to deliver the best possible comic book values.
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