The Standard Catalog of Comic Books

by John Jackson Miller, Brent Frankenhoff, Maggie Thompson

No publication in the history of collecting has included more information on more comic books than the Standard Catalog of® Comic Books. Years in the making, this is the “Manhattan Project” of comics collecting books, covering more than 165,000 comic books published in North America since 1900! The catalog lists not just the issue and after-market price, but also lists the writers and artists who created them as well. Plus, it includes the original print runs for thousands of comics, as well as the number of comics graded by Comics Guaranty Corporation. Every comic book has a checklist box for easy use as a handy collector’s utility—and this book is great reading, with page after page of reviews of some of the most famous (and infamous) comics in history. • Includes facts about more than 165,000 comic books published since 1900 • Covers after-market prices, writers, artists, original print runs, character appearances, story titles, and number of comics graded by Comics Guaranty Corporation • Handy collector’s utility, designed as a tool for storing a collection

Genres: Reference, Comics

1224 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2002

About the author

New York Times bestselling author John Jackson Miller has spent a lifetime immersed in science fiction. His Star Trek novels include the Discovery – Die Standing, the acclaimed novel Discovery — The Enterprise War, the Prey trilogy, and Takedown. His Star Wars novels include A New Dawn, Kenobi, Knight Errant, Lost Tribe of the Sith, and the Knights of the Old Republic comics, available from Marvel as Legends: The Old Republic.

He’s written comics and prose for Halo, Iron Man, Simpsons, Conan, Planet of the Apes, and Mass Effect, with recent graphic novels for Battlestar Galactica, Dumbo, and The Lion King. Production notes on all his works can be found at his fiction site.

He is also a comics industry historian, specializing in studying comic-book circulation as presented on his website, Comichron.. He also coauthored the Standard Catalog of Comic Books series.