A very common place to go if looking for the price of a comic book and cheap comic books is no other than the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. This is the best way to start price searching but one must take note of some misguided listings.

The industry standard and very much recommended when it comes to comic price guides is the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide. It’ll help everyone to know if the long kept comic is valuable or not.

Make sure to focus on three things when using this guide: find the first issues, first appearances or origins of characters, and first works by notable artists and writers.

The comic book with these criteria being there is known to be the “keys” and will eventually stand out from “common” issues in value. Just like the appearances and origins of the X-men in X-men #1, are more valuable than succeeding comics like X-men #6. The separation of “keys” from “commons” is something unusual. There will be insider secrets behind it that you should discover.

Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide is great but similar to other guides it has also some cons and inaccuracy. The first one is the printing delay. Information found in the guide has to be collected, organized, formatted, and then sent to the printer; after such distribution to stores will follow. Everything in it takes a lot of changes since it will take time. Sometimes new comic book movies were being released or planned, demand will increase in some old/vintage issues, and the like may happen. Basically, prices may change and the guide can’t foresee this to happen. Second and most obviously, the guide works hard to gain accuracy but for the falsity of prices dealers should deal about it. If you think they’re not doing well with it, check their work.

Lastly, professionally graded comic books can be sold for premiums over guide prices when it comes to Certify Guaranty Company (CGC) arrivals. CGC is the company who professionally grades and encapsulates comic books in a protective holder, so make sure you know this information.

The following text will give you simple steps to get precise and updated prices on your comic books.

Start with Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide; I suggest using the online version as it is much easier to use. Follow the advice given earlier and in regards to your comic books focus on the “keys” and other valuable comic books. Do the listing of your books by title, issue number, grade, and guide price. Do you have your list now? Then do the actual sales prices check with one or two sources.

E-Bay is another one of my suggestions for you. It’s free to make an account so there are no excuses to check this to see actual prices. In the search box enter the title and issue number to know the complete auctions of the book. After it, see the sidebar on the left? Check the “completed auctions”. E-Bay provides actual prices and sales. You can use the prices to check the Overstreet Price Guide values.

Second, there is also GPAnalysis. But here’s the thing, it charges a fee. But if you think it’ll work for a comic book collector like you then try it. The good thing is that if the initial price research reveals you have luxurious books it’ll be paid off. Books sold since 2002 maybe available so try to search for it. The only limitation is that they only collect data by CGC (professionally graded) comic books. It’ll give you more updates to check to get an accurate price.