No other guide on the market covers the volume of comic book listings and range of eras as this does, in an easy-to-use checklist format. Readers can access listings for 130,000 comics, issued since 1961, complete with name, cover date, creator information and near-mint pricing. With super-hero art on the cover and collecting details from the experts at America's longest-running magazine about comics inside, there is nothing that compares.