The 2023 CPV Price Guide for Canadian Price Variants (Type 1A) free online guide caters to collectors interested in Canadian Price Variant (CPV) newsstand comics, also known as “Type 1A Price Variant” comics, from Marvel (October 1982 to August 1986), DC (October 1982 to September 1988), and other publishers.
Back in 2010, historian and Overstreet Advisor Jon McClure introduced the term “Type 1A” in The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #40 article “A History of Publisher Experimentation and Variant Comic Books” to describe this type of cover price variant. Collector interest in Type 1A Price Variant comics has continued to build since then, and McClure’s updated variant article was published in The Overstreet Guide to Grading Comics Sixth Edition in 2021.
The first edition of this guide was released in 2017, by McClure, fellow Overstreet Advisors Doug Sulipa, Bill Alexander, and Paul Clairmont, and historian Angelo Virone, in collaboration with Benjamin Nobel of the Rare Comics Blog.
In subsequent years, the team expanded to include former CBCS International Comics Specialist Tim Bildhauser and Overstreet Advisor and MyComicShop.com President Conan Saunders. This year, the team is joined by CaptCan Comics proprietor Jayden Mitchell and Overstreet Advisor and GPAnalysis writer Dr. Greg Holland.
The 2023 CPV Price Guide features original articles contributed by top Type 1A researchers, including a look at Charlton CPVs by Stephen Cranch, an exploration of Beetlejuice CPVs by Salvatore Miceli, and a discussion of UKPVs by James Gilbreath. With new articles by Doug Sulipa this year, the CPV Price Guide publisher coverage has expanded to include Harvey and Whitman CPVs. GPAnalysis has contributed their CPV sales data for a newly updated article by Greg Holland that analyzes the recent marketplace sales of CGC-graded CPVs. In total, 14 new articles are presented this year.
“With over five million cumulative hits to date, interest in our online guide has been riding the larger wave of growing collector interest in newsstand comics. With CGC’s recent announcement that newsstand comics will now be officially recognized on their labels going forward, this can only build even more collector awareness about the US-published 1980s cover price variant newsstand comics that exist out there, especially those in our guide’s Top 100 list,” Nobel said.
Together the collaboration team announced the release of their 6th edition, The 2023 CPV Price Guide for Canadian Price Variants (Type 1A), available to read for free. It has been published online at cpvpriceguide.com.
