The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 34th Edition [Paperback]

Robert M Overstreet (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 960 pages
• Publisher: House of Collectibles; 34 edition (May 11, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1400046696
• ISBN-13: 978-1400046690
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.5 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,721,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Trimmed back, seriously incomplete, July 19, 2004

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DAVID GULLIKSEN (Stratford, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 34th Edition (Paperback)

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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Accurate pricing trends, April 6, 2005

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Alan Glick (Tampa, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 34th Edition (Paperback)

Glad to see that the Guide is still correcting the overpricing that has plagued editions of this book in the past. Of course, dealers will be upset to see this downward correction (notice the anonymous reviews signed "a reader"). But for the comic buyer, this is a step away from greed and towards making comic book collecting an affordable hobby again.

It's good to have the guide moving ever closer towards accuracy, and not have to judge value by the outlandish prices occasionally seen on eBay which unrealistically skew the average price upwards. These eBay buyers are either uninformed (a dealer's dream), or they have unlimited funds and are bidding aginst another person in the same situation. These sales, however, have NOTHING to do with the book's actual value, which is determined by supply and the mean demand. One or two people who are willing to pay 10 times a book's value, shouldn't have an effect on the pricing for the rest of the comic collecting community.

The Overstreet Guide is an important tool for the hobbyist who wants to have an accurate guide for a comic book's worth. Unfortunately comic book collecting has become a HUGE business, and dealers used to gigantic markups don't want to lose these profit margins. They will continue to fight against the trend towards downward correction in Overstreet. Buyer Beware. The comic you want is out there somewhere at a fair price. Take your time and look around. And of course, get a copy of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide!!!

13 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor pricing information, July 17, 2004

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This review is from: The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 34th Edition (Paperback)

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.