[rez]

Recently acquired last year's #38 spiral bound Overstreet for reference use and was pleased to see they are correcting some of their old erroneous data accumulated over the years.

The '94 24th edition when looking up my platinum age Hans und Fritz#193 from 1929 is listed as Very Rare which according to their data labels a book as having 1 to 10 copies estimated to exist.

It always made me wonder how such a low existant numbered book could only carry a $54 value in a good shape but I see the value has increased over the last 14 years to $58, heh heh, regardless that the new Overstreet does now report that 'this edition is not rare'. Hmm, wonder if that's why I once came across another copy at a fleamarket.: o)

They did remove the reference of Kirby as being the cover artist on the 1945 KO Komics so some improvements are being made.

Do like the larger format of the book and the catagory separations. Maybe the spiral binding won't fall apart as easily as the standard hard and soft bounds use to.

That's all. No charge for this info unless you want to buy it on a disc.

edited to add if anyone wants a link to the guy who was selling those #38 Overstreets for $5 at the show email me. Buddy I was riding with told me about the $5 Overstreet only after we'd gotten halfway home! So I sent the dealer an email and ended up getting one delivered by mail for a total of $11.

[John C]

I'm shocked.  Judging by other publishing industries, I would've guessed that they'd instead insert a ten page article about how the Internet is dooming publishers and how getting information for free is evil.

That they're, y'know, making use of free information to fix their product is interesting.

To be fair, though, rarity is just something that's always a guess.  You can probably tell how many are currently for sale.  If you're lucky, you might be able to find out how many saw print.  But there's absolutely no way to know how many are hiding in forgotten boxes in attics around the world.

And yeah, for reference material, especially if you want to print it cheaply, spiral bindings are the way to go.  You can do slightly better--same functionality with a better look--but it's sort of expensive.

[JVJ]

And yeah, for reference material, especially if you want to print it cheaply, spiral bindings are the way to go.  You can do slightly better--same functionality with a better look--but it's sort of expensive.

Actually I believe the raison d'

[narfstar]

Interesting thought Jim. Since most of the outside world would consider Overstreet the expert guide they would probably insure based on that. Good idea

[rez]

But there's absolutely no way to know how many are hiding in forgotten boxes in attics around the world.

Or how many are sitting in collector/dealer's boxes awaiting for a price increase because of the said rarity.

be conspiracy minded

[John C]

I agree that the print size is probably a big selling point, but when you live with software, you quickly learn that reference books that lay flat are very good things indeed (until the end of the spiral wire hooks onto your clothes and doorjambs and the like, at least).  It's one less hand you need to involve in managing the book.

(And I don't think dealers "hiding" extra copies would be too much of a worry--the best profits come from turnover, not single sales.  That's why WalMart is the biggest company ever, while the dude at the flea market trying to sell his Bicentennial Air collection is, y'know, working at the flea market.)