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Though now out of print, this guide remains a valuable resource for information about artists and publishers within the underground comix genre. In 2006, Dan Fogel, who was an advisor and contributor to the Overstreet guide, published Fogel's Underground Comix Price Guide. In 2010, a supplementary magazine was introduced, encompassing ...
In 2010, two copies sold on the comic book auction website comicconnect.com for record prices. One copy was CGC graded 8.0 and sold for US$1 million. [8] The second book at a later auction, a copy CGC graded at 8.5 sold for a record-setting $1.5 million, the most ever paid up to that time for a comic book.
In the 1960s, after abandoning a project to create an arrowhead price guide, Overstreet turned his attention to comics, which had no definitive guide. [1] Comic back-issue prices had stabilized by the end of the 1960s, [2] and, Jerry Bails, who had recently published the Collector's Guide to the First Heroic Age, was considering creating a ...
The NGC Census reports how many examples of each issue NGC has certified by grade, which helps determine relative rarity. Census figures are often falsely inflated due to resubmissions of the same coins. NGC Coin Price Guide lists pricing data for most US coin (and some modern Chinese) issues. NGC Auction Central reports auction prices realized ...
Metropolis founder Stephen Fishler is credited with creating the 10 point grading scale that is used industry wide for valuing comic books. He did not create the nomenclature grades (e.g. Very Fine, Near Mint), but organized what was once a 42-point system into the 10-point grading scale, which he convinced the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide to adopt, and was later embraced by the Certified ...
The copy sold is the third highest-graded copy from the CGC, which stands at 8.5 VF+ grade, [18] which Zurzolo said was among the best-kept copies. [ 15 ] As of 2011, there were six known Comic Guaranty LLC (CGC)-graded copies with a grade above VG (CGC 4.0), with only one issue having the grade of VF/NM (CGC 9.0) at that time. [ 19 ]
Comic book collecting is a hobby that treats comic books and related items as collectibles or artwork to be sought after and preserved. Though considerably more recent than the collecting of postage stamps or books (bibliophilia), it has a major following around the world today and is partially responsible for the increased interest in comics after the temporary slump experienced during the 1980s.
Comic grading has played a role in establishing standards for valuation, which online price guides such as GoCollect and GPAnalysis utilize to provide real-time market value information. Collectors also seek out the original artwork pages from comic books, which are perhaps the most rarefied items in the realm of comic book collecting.