Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide

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The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (or Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide) is widely considered the primary authority on the subject of American comic book grading and collection values in the industry. Begun in 1970 by Bob Overstreet as a guide for fellow fans of Golden Age era comics, the Overstreet comic book price guide has since expanded to cover the entire history of the American comics publication. Its 38th edition was published by Gemstone Publishing in 2008.

Ironically, this guide to the comic book collecting hobby has itself become a collectable, and since the 1980s each edition of the Price Guide includes a page listing collector's values for older editions, with hardcover editions, in particular, selling for a premium. Currently, the Price Guide is published in three formats: hardcover, paperback and a larger, ring-bound edition, and often with multiple covers for each edition.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Overstreet also produced a publication that would serve as a price update regarding newer comics releases from the present to selected titles dating from the Silver Age, including a price guide to current and valuable comics, as well as comic book, collector news, and interviews. These various incarnations of this publication (which were published quarterly to bi-monthly, and eventually monthly) included Overstreet's Comic Book Price Update, Overstreet Comic Book Monthly, and Overstreet's Fan, with this last incarnation showing a great deal of similarity to the successful comics news magazine Wizard: The Guide to Comics. Ultimately, Overstreet's Fan ceased publication in 1995, and no new update publications have been published since besides the annual Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide.