Warman's Comic Book Field Guide: Values and Identification (Warman's Field Guides) [Paperback]

John Jackson Miller (Author), Maggie Thompson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Warman's Field Guides | Publication Date: August 2004

Collectors can check the values of over 20,000 of the most interesting comic books from 1935 to today with this pocket-sized, full-color guide. Super hero comics, TV comics, movie comics, western comics, romance comics, horror comics, humor comics, Japanese manga--all genres are covered, and the book also includes fascinating facts from the authors! Readers will discover the most valuable titles as well as some of the more unusual titles out there. Superman, Spider-Man, Star Wars--they're all here!

Over 500 spectacular color photographs appear in this reference, and a helpful multi-page, full-color grading guide is provided to make it easy to determine the condition of comics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 511 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications (August 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873496949
• ISBN-13: 978-0873496940
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,174,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

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.