Fully updated, the illustrated companion volume to The Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide offers collectors detailed guidelines on how to grade the conditions of comic books, explaining a new ten-point grading system and offering close-up photographs of comic books of every grade and condition. Original.

The Official Overstreet Comic Book Grading Guide, 3rd Edition

Comics & Graphic Novels

Arnold T. Blumberg

Robert M. Overstreet

History & Price Guides

House of Collectibles

The Ultimate Authority Delivers The Right Grade Every Time Grading comic books is the key to successful comic book collecting, and now the leading expert on comic books, Robert M. Overstreet, together with co-author Arnold T. Blumberg, has set the standard for grading the condition of comic books. With The Official Overstreet Comic Book Grading Guide, you will learn all the information you'll ever need to accurately grade your comic books. Find The Right Grade * A new 10-point grading system helps you determine the grade of all your comic books. * Exhaustive descriptions of primary and split grades give you the right grade quickly. * Over 200 full-color photographs of every major comic book defect to help you easily find which grade reflects your own comic books. Choose The Right Grade * A new, suggested restoration scale helps you evaluate comic books that have been restored. * An essay on "How to Grade" gives you tremendous insight about the grading process. Use The Right Grade * Overstreet's expert guidance in grading makes evaluating all your comic books easier than ever before. * Charts of allowable defects and terminology take some of the guessword out of grading. PLUS * A guide to grading Platinum Age comics. * An essay on certified grading from Comics Guaranty, LLC (CGC) * Articles on grading history and nomenclature, comic book restoration, and "odd format" grading. * And much more!

The Official Overstreet Comic Book Grading Guide

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<li>Do you remember Big Little Books, those tiny tomes teeming with thrilling tales of adventure and excitement? Most measuring around 4 inches square and packed with 400+ pages, Big Little Books (and their many cousins and variants) have entertained children since 1932 with their large text stories and captioned pictures starring popular comic characters like Mickey Mouse, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Dick Tracy, Orphan Annie, The Phantom, Donald Duck, The Gumps, and even super-heroes like Batman, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and Aquaman. Costing just a dime all those years ago, many of these miniature treasures now command thousands of dollars in the collectibles market.</li> <li>This exhaustive, full-color pictorial guide also features Better Little Books, Dime Action Books, and many other variations on the theme, and many of these books are presented for the first time in a unique three-angle view that showcases the vibrant artwork and distinctive designs on the front, back and spine of every volume. This beautiful volume includes historical overviews of the BLBs and their many publishers, a guide to grading BLBs with notes on storage and preservation, a wealth of trivia tidbits and a BLB market report for 2004.</li>
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The Big Big Little Book Book: An Overstreet Photo-Journal Guide

Graphic Novels

Gemstone Publishing

David J Howe and Arnold T Blumberg present the definitive collector's guide to Doctor Who merchandise.  From the rare and obscure to the commonplace and disposable, every facet of Doctor Who's penetration into the marketplace is detailed.  This update volume covers all the items released in the 40th anniversary year, 2003, and also contains updates to the main book, as well as market reports and comments from both the people who produce the merchandise and the people who sell it...  Howe's Transcendental Toybox is both a fascinating tour through the many ways that Doctor Who has been presented and an entertaining guide to the world of Doctor Who collecting.  Product descriptions  Black and white photographs of the majority of items  Market report from both the manufacturers and the sellers  Overview of 2003  The book covers Doctor Who merchandise around the world, including items released in America, New Zealand and Australia as well as the many UK-produced items.

Howe's Transcendental Toybox

David J. Howe

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Telos Publishing Ltd

From the dawn of feature films, fans―be they artists, gamers, visionaries, writers, or dreamers―have drawn inspiration from the big screen. Now, between the covers of Cinema &amp; Sorcery, embark on a decades-long journey through time from the earliest days of sword and sorcery films up to the present day. Learn the who, the what, the where, and the how of your favorite fantasy movies (and perhaps a few you may have never even heard of until now). Fifty films are covered in great detail, followed by shorter entries for every fantasy film we could find. So turn up your Krull soundtrack, slip into your Labyrinth t-shirt, and brush up on your Princess Bride quotes, this is Cinema &amp; Sorcery: The Comprehensive Guide to Fantasy Film!

Cinema and Sorcery: The Comprehensive Guide to Fantasy Film

Scott Alan Woodard

Green Ronin Publishing