Comic book enthusiasts of all interests will find the updated 12th edition of this price guide has more of the details they need and special options they seek. The 2006 Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide contains listings and updated prices (in US dollars) for more than 125,000 comics, including 5,000 new comics. An easy-to-follow checklist format allows collectors and dealers to easily assess and identify comic books. Listings include cover dates, creator information and near mint prices for comic books of 1961 to the present, plus key Silver Age information from previous years. A special section outlines actual prices paid at auction for over 100,000 comic books graded by Comics Guaranty, LLC. Plus 400 photos for quick reference.
Author John Jackson Miller has spent a lifetime immersed in the worlds of fantasy and science fiction. Miller is best known for his Star Wars work, including Star Wars: Knight Errant, his national bestselling novel from Del Rey, and his long-running Knights of the Old Republic comics series from Dark Horse. He's written for Dark Horse's Mass Effect comics, Marvel's Iron Man and Crimson Dynamo, and Bongo's Bart Simpson. He wrote the comics adaptation of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Miller is also a noted comics industry historian, specializing in studying comic-book circulation as presented on his website, The Comics Chronicles (comichron.com). In 2002, his work spawned the first of four Standard Catalog of Comic Books volumes. He's also edited magazines including Comics Buyer's Guide, Comics & Games Retailer, and Scrye: The Guide to Collectible Card Games.
In games, his work includes writing for the Star Wars Role-Playing Game and reference guides including the Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist & Price Guide.
