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Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin. So the other day on Twitter I was reminiscing about the influx of comic book price guide periodicals that flooded. For those of you who don’t recall, Wizard was a monthly comic news/interview magazine that featured a price guide in the back, with occasional investment recommendations, lists of new first issues, and that sort of thing. It ceased publication a number of years ago, but the Wizard brand still appears on conventions, and I regularly get folks in the shop asking me if the latest issue of Wizard is out. No word here on whether a price guide is part of the quarterly release, which, judging by my retail experience selling the magazine for its entire existence, was the magazine’s primary attraction.

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Okay, I exaggerate, but really, not by much. I’ve heard more than once “Wizard? Then how do you price your comics?” But the magazine’s appearance and content skewed young- ish, appealing to the teen crowd of comic readers that were then heavily populating the marketplace during the industry’s boom years. Features on “hot” comics and creators, pack- in freebies like trading cards (also “hot” for a time), offers for special “limited edition” comics. Anyway, to get back where I started, this got me to thinking about the many other price guides that suddenly turned up during the last time lots of people remembered that comic books existed as items they could purchase. I’ve already mentioned Hero Illustrated, which was basically the same thing as Wizard, with articles that perhaps aimed at a very slightly older reader, but still had that big ol’ price guide section in the back.

As I recall, the major difference from Wizard was that Hero sometimes offered “ashcan editions” (i. I actually have two issues of this magazine in the Semi- Vast Comic Archives? A Syphons preview!?”), and the other one being a special issue about the Death of Superman, of course. This was a less fancy publication than Wizard and Hero: black and white interiors, few articles, focus is on the “price” part of the mag. There’s the occasional goodie (this issue had a folded bound- in poster of its cover), oh, and just flipping through it, there’s an interview with Garth Ennis, which wasn’t as important to cover- blurb as Syphons, I guess.

This mag also had an annual price guide softcover. There were other monthly (or semi- monthly) price guide magazines. Overstreet had their own Wizard- esque price- guide- with- some- articles slick covered mag Overstreet Fan. That only lasted a couple of years, as I recall.) I don’t really remember a lot about the quality of the articles, but I do know they sent us a pretty cool clock (with the “Fan” logo across its face) that, as far as I know, is still working and displayed on the wall at my previous place of employment.

The long- running Comic Buyers’ Guide had a regular (quarterly?) price guide sometimes sealed in a polybag along with their tabloid editions. When it shifted from a weekly to a monthly, it had a price guide in the back of every issue, I believe. And there were others, probably many short- lived mags.

I seem to remember one or two that tried to be all- purpose price guides (like the appropriately- named Combo magazine) with prices for comics, toys, cards, Faberg. I’m trying to remember if Beckett, the primary publisher of sports card price guides, ever did a comics price guide during this magical period of the 1. If not, they missed a bet, because man oh man did I ever have lots of people asking for our “comic book Becketts” at the time. Once other price guides proliferated, we’d occasionally use those for reference as well, but not nearly as frequently as the Overstreet annual/Wizard monthly power pair. Nowadays, it’s mostly Overstreet I use, plus just general awareness of local market conditions.

I’ll pop in on the e. Bay to see if anything unusual happens to stand out, though given how things are organized there, it’s easier to just look up specific issues rather than just browse and hope you see relevant data. And I know there are online price guides services.

Don’t know that I really have a point to this beyond “hey, remember when there were too many price guides?” There was another thing on Twitter that I brought up, regarding the discrepancies in prices we’d often find between price guides, which was surely just a matter of differences in surveyed retailers and their own pricing trends. However, I remember my comic shop cohorts and I speculating that perhaps some guides pushed certain prices a little higher than they should have been, in order to attract more buyers.

But I do wonder if anyone actually did decide on which guide to buy based on that criteria? I mean, people have done weirder things for less reason. As for Wizard. Yeah, I know they have the daily video thing, and we keep getting told video is the way everything is going, but. I mean, you read all this, right?

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