This price guide provides up-to-date collector values, tips for buying, selling, and preserving comic books. Collectors can accurately evaluate their comics with a grading guide and current market report.

Featuring more than 35,000 updated prices, this easy-to-use guide covers all the new titles in the rapidly expanding comics market. 600 illustrations.

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Comic book heroes are taking over the popular culture world. This title includes a brief overview of the industry, a grading guide, and features an interview with a comic book insider.

After the successful and innovative first two editions, now in a new, restructured 3rd edition, this remains the most authoritative introduction for studying comic books and graphic novels, covering their place in contemporary culture, the manifestations and techniques of the art form, the evolution of the medium and how to analyze and write about them. The new edition includes: - A completely reworked introduction explores the comics community in the US and globally, its history, and the role of different communities in advancing the medium and its study - Chapters reframed to get students thinking about themselves as consumers and makers of comics - Reorganized chapters on form help to unpack encapsulation, composition and layout - Completely new chapters on comics and how they can be used to report, document, and persuade, as well as a new Preface by Karen Green Illustrated throughout, with discussion questions and activities for every chapter and an extensive glossary of key terms, The Power of Comics and Graphic Novels also includes further updated resources available online including additional essays, weblinks and sample syllabi.

If you're a baby boomer hoping to find some profitable interest in your childhood fare, a new comic crusader lured by Hollywood blockbusters, or an avid collector seeking the latest listings and values, you'll benefit from the straightforward approach of this long-standing comic book reference. &break;&break;Organized alphabetically by major publishers, beginning with DC and Marvel, then on to miscellaneous Golden Age, black and white, and color titles from scale publishers, you can quickly located and assess comics from among the 95,000 featured.

This reference features more than 5,000 new issues and more than 50,000 new facts about comic books published in North America in the last 70 vears.