Brent Frankenhoff (born February 10, 1966) is an American author and editor of books and magazines about comic books, best known for his work on ''

Comics Buyer's Guide ''Comics Buyer's Guide'' (''CBG''; ), established in 1971, was the longest-running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry. It awarded its annual Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Awards from 1983 to circa 2010. The public ...

'' and the ''

Standard Catalog of Comic Books The ''Standard Catalog of Comic Books'' is the world's largest book about comic books. A joint production of the team behind ''Comics Buyer's Guide'' magazine and the CD-ROM program ComicBase, the first edition was released in 2002 from Krause Pub ...

''. A collector of comic books since childhood, he joined

Krause Publications Krause Publications is an American publisher of hobby magazines and books. Originally a company founded and based in Iola, Wisconsin, they relocated to Stevens Point, Wisconsin, in April 2018. The company was started by Chester L. Krause (19232 ...

in 1992 as an assistant to Don Thompson and

Maggie Thompson Maggie Thompson (born Margaret Curtis; November 29, 1942), is an American longtime editor of the now-defunct comic book industry news magazine ''Comics Buyer's Guide'', science fiction fan, and collector of comics. Early life Margaret (nicknam ...

. In 1995, he co-authored the first of a line of price guides, the ''Comic Book Checklist and Price Guide'' (now on its 15th edition). Named ''Comics Buyer's Guide'''s projects editor in 1998,"News Watch: Krause Publications Names Editors," ''The Comics Journal'' #203 (April 1998), p. 30. Frankenhoff became editor of the journal in 2006. He worked with

ComicBase ComicBase is a computer program for tracking comic book collections. It was created in 1992 by Peter Bickford as an Apple Macintosh program. A Windows version was introduced in 1996. As of February 2015, it is on its nineteenth version (dubbed Co ...

creator Peter Bickford to develop a joint comics database, which Krause used to launch the ''Standard Catalog of Comic Books'' series in 2002. The fifth edition of that publication was issued as a DVD-ROM in 2008.

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''Standard Catalog of Comic Books''

''Comics Buyer's Guide''
Comics critics 1966 births Living people {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub