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Title is the name of a comic book series. For example, Action Comics is a title. Within this title, there have been over 1,000 issues. Issue is a single installment of a title, usually with its own number. Examples are Action Comics #23 or The Amazing Spider-Man #42. A volume number may also be included, such as Punisher Vol. 1 #23.
Under the auspices of Overstreet Publications, the first Comic Book Price Guide was published in November 1970. Priced at $5, saddle-stitched and published in a print run of 1000 (a second edition of 800 was released subsequently), [ 4 ] the book included 218 pages of listings.
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 book price comparison website Dualj.com, which tracked sale prices of books, recorded that a copy of Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes sold for US$10,000 in 2009. [11] [12] Valuations for the book ranged up to US$34,000 in 2012. [13] A copy was sold on eBay for an "extremely generous" donation to the HALO Trust charity in 2013. [14] [15]
In the US, the use of comics for education, using the Internet, can be seen on Comics in the Classroom, and the state of Maryland's Comic Book Initiative. Teacher professional development content on how teachers can integrate comics into the classroom is available through the State of California Department of Education's Brokers of Expertis ...
A view of atmosphere during New York Comic Con 2024 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on October 18, 2024 in New York City. - Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for ReedPop
Brent Frankenhoff (born February 10, 1966) is an American author and editor of books and magazines about comic books, best known for his work on Comics Buyer's Guide and the Standard Catalog of Comic Books. A collector of comic books since childhood, he joined Krause Publications in 1992 as an assistant to Don Thompson and Maggie Thompson. In ...
Little Archie is a comic book published by Archie Comics from 1956 to 1983, lasting 180 issues. Little Archie #1 is considered to be "scarce" by the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (only 20-100 copies exist). Among the artists and writers who drew the series were Bob Bolling [1] and Dexter Taylor [2]