The Semi-Secret Origins of the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide The Main Event, Scoop, Friday, March 14, 2003 Sometimes the seeds of something big are planted very early. That was the case with Robert M. Overstreet. Known to literally hundreds of thousands of readers as the author of
The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, Bob not only started with comics early in life, he started with them early each day.
"I read comic books in the late '40s. One of my favorite comics was Fox And The Crow. I would have Kix cereal in the morning and I would read my Fox & the Crow comics eating Kix," he told Scoop. "My older brother Jerry had more comic books than I did. And we always had comic books around the house."
Since its first publication in 1970,
The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide established a standard for price guides in many fields. With the book's 33rd edition due out next month, Scoop sat down with Bob and got to the bottom of how it all started.
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