{"id":5975,"date":"2008-03-21T22:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:09:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:09:12","slug":"comichron-article-in-new-overstreet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/comichron-article-in-new-overstreet\/","title":{"rendered":"Comichron article in new Overstreet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><i><span style=\"font-size: small; font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">by John Jackson Miller<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemstonepub.com\/store\/item.asp?ItemNo=63853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Overstreet Price Guide<\/strong><\/a> is out,&nbsp; the first with yours truly as an <strong>Overstreet<\/strong> advisor \u2014 previously I&#8217;d worked exclusively for the competition. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maggiethompson.com\/\"><strong>Maggie Thompson<\/strong><\/a> is in the Overstreet group as well now \u2014 things change). My first contribution is a feature on <strong>Star Wars<\/strong> comics history, getting a bit into the scope and differentiated manner of its circulation in the 1970s.<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span class=\"DNNAlignleft\" id=\"dnn_ctr990_ContentPane\"><span id=\"dnn_ctr990_MainView_ViewBlog_lstBlogView_ctl02_lblDescription\"><br \/>\nIt gets further into the copies that <strong>Western Publishing<\/strong> commissioned \u2014 the so-called &#8220;Whitman variants,&#8221; which is an <em>a propos <\/em>term despite the fact that the Whitman logo does not appear on the comics themselves. As illustrated in my piece in <strong>Comics Buyer&#8217;s Guide<\/strong> #<strong>1609<\/strong>,  while these &#8220;fat diamond&#8221; copies of Marvel comics may at some point  have been sold to direct market stores, the existence of this printing  seems to spring strictly from Western\/Whitman, as evidenced by the fact  that the whole Marvel line was dumped by Whitman in late 1977 while they  were printing more Star Wars reprints!<\/p>\n<p>Fun stuff, and Overstreet is required reading in any event!<\/span>                                         <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Jackson Miller The new Overstreet Price Guide is out,&nbsp; the first with yours truly as an Overstreet advisor \u2014 previously I&#8217;d worked exclusively for the competition. (Maggie Thompson is in the Overstreet group as well now \u2014 things change). My first contribution is a feature on Star Wars comics history, getting a bit &#8230; <a title=\"Comichron article in new Overstreet\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/21\/comichron-article-in-new-overstreet\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Comichron article in new Overstreet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-whitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5976,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}