Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #55 is out22218
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| Received my copy in the mail yesterday (Saturday Feb 21). I get a copy mailed to me each year as an advertiser/advisor. The return shipping address was Flat River Group LLC in Belding, Michigan which is different. Normally a Gemstone address. For some reason I haven't figured out it's a lot thicker than last year - even though last year's was actually about 100 pages more. This one shows right at 1000 pages. Gemstone's website shows it will be available Feb 25 and you can order from there. I see a seller on eBay that has copies, Amazon says temporarily out of stock and a couple of other places I checked say it will be available by Feb 28.   |
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| It used to come out the week of the San Diego Comic Con. Is this the first time that it has come out in February? | ||
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| With Diamond's bankruptcy and all the resulting dominoes, it pushed the publication back a couple of times. It's probably fortunate that it made it out this time. |
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| Gemstone is probably part of Diamond so maybe due to the bankruptcy someone else is publishing it | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by BrianGreensnips In my younger collecting years - if my memory serves me correctly - the OPG came out late in March or early April. There was always a rush by collectors to get taxes filed and refund back BEFORE the new Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide came out. That's back in the day long before eBay and the internet. You had local comic book stores, you had (a lot fewer than today) comic book shows,you had The Buyer's Guide (a weekly trade paper) and some dealers mailing out paper catalogs. The OPG really was something like a price guide bible. The switch to releasing at the SDCC is comparatively recent. 2010 I'm pretty certain. |
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 Noticed TOD 10 dropped 4k to 2.4k Marvel spotlight 5 dropped 9k to 6k In the raw 9.2 grades Sub-mariner 1 from 68 dropped from $1800 to $750 in 9.2  While other books slowly went up or stayed the same. Interesting  TTA 90 dropped in price while TTA 93 went up. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by southerncross If the OPG is going to have any usefulness at all as far as a price guide prices on a lot of books needed / still need to come down. All of the issues/prices mentioned are pretty close to the GPA average for graded copies in 9.2 - sold in 2024. 2025 prices on the three you mention have continued to go drift downward from the pandemic highs set in 2022/2023. GPA (actual sales) for books listed above in CGC 9.2 Prices are 2024 Average, 2025 Average, last 12 months Average ( ) is number of copies recorded sold TOD 10 $2431 (11) / 2063 (10) / $2010 (9) Marvel Spotlight 5 $6810 (6) / $4741 (9) / $4434 (8) Sub-Mariner 1 $904(11) / $737 (14) / $704 (12) Books like this (widely collected Silver/bronze/copper/modern) key super hero books tripled in price during the pandemic and a lot of them are now back to the prices they were in 2019-2020. Not all of course, but a lot and probably most. If one bought these books during the pandemic being told that they have gone down in price - while accurate - is painful. If you've been collecting for decades and have owned these books for a long time any "loss" is just on paper. You almost certainly paid less for them 10-25 years ago than their current value. It should also be mentioned that this applies to the most widely collected cape and cowl books. If you've always collected pre code horror, better Romance, Archie keys and several other overlooked genres the price situation is much different. I use GPA to illustrate prices because it's a known quantity. In the raw world one person's 9.2 is someone else's 8.0 and still another's 9.8. But the trend is the same - and the trend for 2024 & 2025 has been down from drunken excess of 2021-2023. It looks like prices have leveled off and found the floor - but time and the economy will tell |
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