The ''Standard Catalog of Comic Books'' is the world's largest book about

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. A joint production of the team behind ''

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'' magazine and the CD-ROM program

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, the first edition was released in 2002 from

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, known today as F+W Publications. The authors of the series are

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, Peter Bickford, and

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. The fourth edition, released in 2005, is 1,624 pages long and indexes more than 165,000 comic books, including information about comic-book creators, story titles, publication dates, and cover prices. The book also includes pricing for comics, including indexes of actual auction results from auction sites including

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. The ''Standard Catalog'' is also a repository for comic-book circulation figures, including sales histories from the

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, and the comics publishers themselves.

External links

''Standard Catalog of Comic Books''

''Comics Buyer's Guide''
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