The 2024 CPV Price Guide for Canadian Price Variants free online guide caters to collectors interested in Canadian Price Variant (CPV) newsstand 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 the CPV 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 was joined by former CBCS International Comics Specialist Tim Bildhauser and MyComicShop.com President Conan Saunders. The team was also joined by CaptCan Comics proprietor Jayden Mitchell and Overstreet Advisor and GPAnalysis writer Dr. Greg Holland.
The 2024 CPV Price Guide features new original articles contributed by the guide team as well as UK Price Variant specialist and general Type 1A enthusiast Stephen Cranch, whose well-received article last year about Charlton CPVs is followed this year by an article about a close “cousin” to the Canadian Price Variant. GPAnalysis contributed their CPV sales data for a newly updated article by Greg Holland that analyzes the recent marketplace sales of CGC-graded CPVs.
“Interest in our online guide continues to ride the larger wave of growing collector interest in newsstand comics broadly,” Nobel said. “With CGC’s recognition of newsstand comics on their labels, more collectors are now researching newsstand comics and in turn discovering the existence of the newsstand exclusive US published 1980s cover price variant newsstand comics that our guide was created to cover – especially the highly popular keys in our guide’s Top 100 list, like Amazing Spider-Man #238 and #252. At this time last year, our guide’s cumulative website hits counter showed a bit over five million hits since inception; today that number exceeds nine million.”
Together the collaboration team announced the release of their seventh edition, The 2024 Newsstand CPV Price Guide for Canadian Price Variants (Type 1A), available to read for free. It has been published online at cpvpriceguide.com.
