Customer Reviews

The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, 34th Edition

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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.

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!!!

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.

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.