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Warman's Comic Book Field Guide
The
comics database I helped design for F&W Publications/Krause
Publications worked overtime in 2004. We got the monthly Comics Buyer's Guide
price guide out of it; we got the 11th Annual Comic Book Checklist
& Price Guide out of it; we got the
third Standard Catalog of Comic Books
out of it. And we also did a book for the Warman's line of Field
Guides, small hand-held books sold in counter displays in mass-market
bookstores.
The Field Guides are designed for the casual shopper looking for an
introduction to collecting, and our comics version was no different. We
selected specific titles from interest from a variety of categories and
publishers, making sure to get some examples of just about every type
of comic book readers might encounter — while obviously not providing
examples of everything. As with the other titles in that popular
series, the guide was a popular seller.
TRIVIA
- Pocket-sized guides for comics prices go back at least to the early 1980s — the first one I ever got was a small Official version of Overstreet.
