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The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide (or Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide) is an annually published comic book price guide widely considered the primary authority on the subject of American comic book grading and pricing in the hobby/industry. Many observers tie in the growth of the direct market distribution system and comic book specialty shops to the general acceptance of Overstreet's annual guide as a standardized inventory and pricing system.^[1]

Begun in 1970 by Robert M. Overstreet as a guide for fellow fans of Golden Age and Silver Age comics, the Overstreet guide has expanded to cover virtually the entire history of the American comics publication as far back as the Victorian Age and Platinum Age. The annual edition also covers promotional comics (giveaways & advertising) and "big little books," while continually updating new publications and market reports that cover the prior year of market activity.

Overstreet's annual guide to the comic book collecting hobby has itself become a collectible, and since the 1980s each edition of the Price Guide includes a page listing collector's values for older editions, with hardcover editions, in particular, selling for a premium. Currently, the Price Guide is published in three formats: hardcover, softcover, a larger, ring-bound edition and an electronic edition, often with multiple covers for each version.

History[link]

Robert M. Overstreet grew up as a comic book, coin, and Indian arrowhead collector. In the 1960s, after abandoning a project to create an arrowhead price guide, Overstreet turned his attention to comics, which had no definitive guide.^[1]

Comic back-issue prices had stabilized by the end of the 1960s,^[2] and, Jerry Bails, who had recently published the Collector’s Guide to the First Heroic Age, was considering creating a comic book price guide. He was contacted by Overstreet, who was doing the same thing. Bails' extensive notes, supplemented by Overstreet's study of dealer listings, "became a backbone to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide."^[3]

Under the auspices of Overstreet Publications, the first Comic Book Price Guide was published in November 1970. Priced at $5, saddle-stitched and published in a print run of 1000 (a second edition of 800 was released subsequently),^[4] the book included 218 pages of listings. Among other things, Overstreet's guide included inventory lists, and it instantly became an invaluable resource tool for comic book collectors and dealers.^[2] By 1976, the guide had achieved national distribution.^[1]

An early decision was made by author to exclude the niche of underground comix, an adult-oriented expression of the genre that Mr. Overstreet had no interest in documenting, for reasons he has never made public,^{[citation needed]} despite the book being promoted by its publisher as "the most complete listing of comics from the 1500s to the present."

Overstreet periodicals[link]

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Overstreet also produced publications that would serve price updates regarding newer comics releases from the present, to selected titles dating from the Silver Age, including a price guide to current and valuable comics, as well as comic book and collector news, and interviews. There was also some editorial content from the publishers, and from polled bookstore owners. Various incarnations of the publication (which were published quarterly to bi-monthly, and eventually monthly) included Overstreet's Comic Book Price Update, Overstreet's Comics Price Bulletin,^[5] Overstreet Comic Book Monthly, and Overstreet's Fan, with this last incarnation showing a great deal of similarity to the successful comics news magazine Wizard: The Guide to Comics. Overstreet also published twenty-one issues of Comic Book Marketplace between Mar./Apr. 1993 and January 1995. Ultimately, most titles were canceled, including Overstreet's Fan which ceased publication in 1995.

Sale to Gemstone[link]

Overstreet sold the business to Gemstone Publishing in 1994, and continues to serve as author of the annual guides and associated publications.

In July 2003, Gemstone attempted another monthly by publishing Overstreet's Comic Price Review, which ran only for nineteen issues.

The 41st edition Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide was published by Gemstone Publishing in 2011.

Controversy[link]

Dealers in back issues report that the guide authors lose interest after 1990. For example, some out of print Hellblazer trade paperbacks are priced at cover price in near mint condition, yet command prices well over $100 from dealers.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Publisher's official site

Chord Overstreet
Overstreet on the set of Glee, 2011
Born	(1989-02-17) February 17, 1989 (age 23) Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation	Actor, singer, musician
Years active	2009–present
Parents	Julie Miller and Paul Overstreet

Chord Paul Overstreet (born February 17, 1989) is an American actor, singer and musician, best known for his role as Sam Evans on the television series Glee.

Early years[link]

Overstreet was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to make-up artist Julie Miller and country music singer-songwriter Paul Overstreet.^[1] He has an older brother, Nash, who plays in the band Hot Chelle Rae,^[2][3] an older sister, Summer, and three younger sisters, Harmony, Skye and Charity.^[4][5][6] He is of German, Irish, English, and "a little bit of Native American" descent.^[7][8] He was named after the musical term of the same name.^[5] Overstreet was raised on a farm outside of Nashville.^[9] Encouraged by his parents to pursue music, he started playing the mandolin at an early age, and moved on to the drums, flute, piano, and guitar.^[7][10] He is also a songwriter, but is unsigned.^[5] In his teenage years, he modeled for advertisements for Famous Footwear and Gap.^[11]

Acting career[link]

Overstreet began to pursue his passion of performing after his high school graduation in 2007. After two unsuccessful years, Overstreet started his acting career on the web series Private, as Josh Hollis.^[12] He was also featured in an episode of iCarly iSpeed Date (for a few minutes) and the unaired pilot of No Ordinary Family.^[10][13] His first film role was that of Teenage Boy in the 2009 thriller The Hole, and he starred in the 2011 film A Warrior's Heart as Dupree, alongside Ashley Greene and Kellan Lutz.^[13]

Overstreet plays the character of Sam Evans, a transfer student and athlete, on the television show Glee.^[10][14][15] He landed the role after auditioning with Commodores' "Easy" and Gavin DeGraw's "I Don't Want to Be".^[5] He later sang "Billionaire" by Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars as a studio test, and eventually sang this in the season premiere "Audition", along with "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" by Poison.^[5][16] He played the role of Rocky in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show-themed episode "The Rocky Horror Glee Show".^[17]

On April 21, 2011, the video for Hot Chelle Rae's "Tonight Tonight‬" was released on YouTube and featured a series of cameos of Overstreet alternately making out with a girl (whom he stole from the lead singer) on an office copier, DJing at a club, then playing guitar and mugging for the crowd with his brother, bandmember Nash.^[18]

On July 1, 2011, TVLine's Michael Ausiello broke the news that Overstreet's contract option to become a series regular on Glee had not been picked up for season 3, but that he could possibly come back as an occasional guest star.^[19] In reaction to the announcement, fans launched a campaign to promote Overstreet's cover of "Billionaire" and various tags related to the actor, most notably "#dontcutthechord",^[20] began trending on Twitter. The song made its way into the iTunes Top 5 "Glee" charts during the campaign.^[21]

At the 2011 Comic-Con event, Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk reported that they had offered Overstreet a ten-episode deal with a possibility to become a series regular at mid-season, but that Overstreet had declined the option.^[22][23] Overstreet later stated to Ausiello during an interview that he had decided to leave the show to focus on his music career, explaining, "They offered me the chance to come back for a few episodes, but there was nothing guaranteed so I decided to dive into the music thing."^[24]

It was reported on October 18, 2011, and confirmed by series co-creator Ryan Murphy six days later, that Overstreet would be returning to Glee as a recurring character starting with the season's eighth episode.^[25] That episode, "Hold On to Sixteen", which featured Overstreet's character Sam, aired on December 6, 2011.

Filmography[link]

Discography[link]

Overstreet's cover of "Billionaire" was released as a single and charted at #15 in Ireland, #24 in Canada, #28 in the United States, and #34 in Australia.^{[26][27][28][29]} His cover of "Lucky" was also released as a single.^[30] Overstreet is also featured in Hot Chelle Rae's "Tonight Tonight" music video, appearing with his brother, bandmember Nash Overstreet.

On December 13, 2011, one of Overstreet's solo tracks, entitled "Beautiful Girl", was leaked onto the internet.^[31]

Tours

• Glee Live! In Concert! as Sam Evans (2011)

Awards[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Chord Overstreet

• Chord Overstreet at the Internet Movie Database

Cory Monteith
Monteith at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Cory Allan Michael Monteith (1982-05-11) May 11, 1982 (age 30) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Occupation	Actor, Musician
Years active	2004–present

Cory Allan Michael Monteith^[1] (born May 11, 1982)^[2] is a Canadian actor and musician, best known for his role of Finn Hudson on the Fox television series Glee.

Early life[link]

Monteith was born in Calgary, Alberta and raised in Victoria, British Columbia.^[3] His parents divorced when he was seven, and he was raised by his mother.^[4][5] By 13, Monteith, once a promising student, who, at age 5, could read at a fourth-grade level, dropped out of school. Monteith estimates that by the time he quit school for good at age 16, he had attended 12 different schools, including alternative programs for troubled teens. He went drinking with his friends and had a drug addiction. Monteith went to rehab at 19 after his family gave him an ultimatum: either he gets clean or they would report him to the police and press charges for stealing a significant amount of money to fuel his addiction. Looking back, he stated, "I finally said, 'I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.'"^[6]

He has worked various jobs, such as a Wal-Mart people greeter, taxi driver, school bus driver, and roofer.^[7]

He received his high school diploma in 2011 from an alternative school he attended in Victoria, British Columbia.^[6]

Monteith is a huge fan of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks.^[8]

Career[link]

Acting[link]

Monteith began his acting career in Vancouver, British Columbia. He played minor roles in Final Destination 3, Whisper, and Deck the Halls. He had a recurring role in Kyle XY.^[9] He also made guest appearances in such Canadian-filmed television serials as Smallville, Supernatural, Flash Gordon, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate SG-1.^[7]

Monteith at Venice High School for a Glee location shoot in December 2011^[10]

In 2005 he appeared in Killer Bash about a tormented geek's soul that was taking revenge on his murderer's children by taking over a girl's twin body. The following year he made a brief appearance in Urban Legend: a Bloody Mary. In 2007, he starred in the MTV series Kaya.^[11]

In 2009, Monteith was cast in the Fox series Glee, playing Finn Hudson, the male lead of the glee club and the quarterback of McKinley High School.^[9] For his audition tape, he drummed on Tupperware using pencils. The first time he sang in front of an audience was at his in-person audition, at which he sang "Honesty" by Billy Joel.

In April 2010, Monteith was cast in the romantic comedy movie Monte Carlo.^[12] In May 2010, the cast of Glee went on a two week live tour with stops in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago and New York City.^[13] The cast performed hits from the show and several skits between songs. The following May, the cast went on a second, longer tour with mostly new songs and all-new skits, performing for four weeks in the U.S. and Canada, and eleven days in England and Ireland.^[14][15]

On August 8, 2010, he co-hosted the Teen Choice Awards.^[16] Monteith hosted the Gemini Awards in Toronto on November 13, 2010.^[17]

In December 2010, it was announced that Monteith would be starring in and co-producing a new untitled workplace-caper comedy for Fox 2000.^[18] In January 2011, he shot the film Sisters&Brothers with Dustin Milligan, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2011.^[19][20]

In 2011, he filmed a PSA for Straight But Not Narrow, an online PSA organization aimed at changing the minds of young, straight guys and girls in their attitude and viewpoint towards the LGBT community.^[21]

In 2012, he co-hosted the GLAAD Media Awards in New York City with co-star Naya Rivera.^[22]

Music[link]

Monteith plays drums for the Indie rock band Bonnie Dune based in Los Angeles. Members include lead singer Justin Wilczynski (who co-starred with Monteith on the short-lived MTV series, Kaya), guitarist Seth Roberts (who is the singer of the band Lakes), and bassist Joshua Kerr.

Filmography[link]

Monteith at the GLAAD Awards on April 17, 2010

Awards[link]

Awards won[link]

• Hollywood Style Awards 2010
  • Male Future Style Icon Award
• SAG Awards 2010
  • Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
• 2011 Teen Choice Awards
  • Choice TV: Actor Comedy

Nominations[link]

• SAG Awards 2011
  • Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
• Teen Choice Awards 2009
  • Choice TV: Actor Breakout Star Male
• Teen Choice Awards 2010
  • Choice TV: Comedy Actor
  • Choice Smile^[3]
• 2011 Teen Choice Awards
  • Summer: Movie Star – Male
• 2012 People's Choice Awards
  • Favorite TV Comedy Actor

Discography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cory Monteith

• Cory Monteith at the Internet Movie Database
• Cory Monteith on Twitter

Paul Lester Overstreet (born March 17, 1955) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He recorded 10 studio albums between 1982 and 2005, and charted 16 singles on the Billboard country charts, including two #1 hits. He has also written singles for several other country acts, including #1 hits for Randy Travis, Blake Shelton, and Keith Whitley, as well as hits for The Judds and Kenny Chesney.

Life and career[link]

Overstreet was born in Newton, Mississippi, the son of Mary Hatten and William Overstreet.^[2] Prior to his solo success, he was one third of the trio S-K-O, in which he recorded one studio album before departing and being replaced with Craig Bickhardt. In addition, Overstreet's sons Nash and Chord are also involved in the entertainment business. Nash is the lead guitarist for the pop band Hot Chelle Rae, while Chord is best known for his role of Sam Evans on the television program Glee.

Songwriter[link]

During his songwriting career, primarily in the Country genre, Overstreet has written or co-written 27 Top Ten songs. During this time, he has won two Grammy Awards and also won ACM and CMA Song of the Year Awards (1987 and 1988). Overstreet was named the BMI Songwriter of the Year five straight years, from 1987–1991, an achievement on music row that has not been achieved before or since.

He is well-known for co-writing the songs, "Love Can Build a Bridge" by the Judds (1990), and "Forever and Ever, Amen" by Randy Travis. Other well-known hits of recent years he is known for are "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" by Kenny Chesney and "Some Beach" by Blake Shelton, which was a Number One hit in 2004.

Paul Overstreet is best known for writing country songs such as "Forever and Ever, Amen"^[3] and "On the Other Hand", both of which were Number Ones for Randy Travis. He also co-wrote "When You Say Nothing at All" which was a Number One hit at the end of 1988 for Keith Whitley, and later a Top Five hit in 1995 for Alison Krauss, and revived later in 1999 by Ronan Keating of Boyzone.

In 1995, he also collaborated with Don Moen to perform and write a song with Don Moen called "God Is Good All the Time," from Don Moen's album Rivers of Joy.

Singer[link]

Overstreet was first signed as a singer in 1982. His debut single, "Beautiful Baby", peaked at #76 on the country charts that year, and was the first single from his self-titled debut album. After co-writing Tanya Tucker's 1987 single "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" with Don Schlitz, Overstreet and fellow singer-songwriter Paul Davis became guest vocalists on the song, which became a Number One hit that year.

Also in 1987, Overstreet founded the trio S-K-O (also known as Schuyler, Knobloch & Overstreet) with Thom Schuyler and Fred Knobloch, both former solo singers. S-K-O charted three singles with Overstreet as a member, including the Number One "Baby's Got a New Baby". After one album the trio was renamed S-K-B when Overstreet left and was replaced by Craig Bickhardt.

In 1988, Overstreet signed to RCA Records as a solo artist. His second solo album, Sowin' Love, accounted for five straight Top 10 hits on the country charts: "Love Helps Those", the title track, "All the Fun", "Seein' My Father in Me" and "Richest Man on Earth." His second album, 1990's Heroes, produced his only solo Number One in its lead-off single "Daddy's Come Around", which was followed by the Top Tens "Heroes" and "Ball and Chain". However, his chart success soon waned, with "If I Could Bottle This Up" peaking at #30 and "Billy Can't Read" falling short of Top 40. A third RCA album, Love Is Strong, produced the #22 "Me and My Baby" and two more singles which missed the charts. Also, the song "There But for the Grace of God Go I" won a Dove Award for Country Recorded Song of the Year at the 24th GMA Dove Awards in 1993. Overstreet did not chart again after "We've Got to Keep on Meeting Like This" in 1996.

Solo discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

Guest singles[link]

Music videos[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• CMT: Paul Overstreet

Dianna Agron
Agron at the Glee Hot Topic Tour, on August 17, 2009
Born	Dianna Elise Agron (1986-04-30) April 30, 1986 (age 26) Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, singer, dancer
Years active	2006–present

Dianna Elise Agron^[1] ( /ˈeɪɡrɒn/;^[2] born April 30, 1986) is an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her portrayal of Quinn Fabray on the television series Glee^[3] and Sarah Hart in I Am Number Four.

Early life[link]

Dianna Agron was born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in San Antonio, Texas and San Francisco, California. She is the daughter of Mary and Ronald S. Agron, a general manager of Hyatt hotels.^[4][5][6] Agron's father's family is originally from Russia, and their original surname, Agronsky, was altered by Ellis Island officials.^[2] Her father was born Jewish and her mother converted to Judaism;^[7] Agron attended Hebrew school and had a bat mitzvah.^[7][8] Agron attended Burlingame Intermediate School and then Burlingame High School in Burlingame, California.^[3] She has been dancing since the age of three,^[9] and began teaching dance as a teenager.^[6]

Career[link]

Agron in NYC, 2011

Agron has appeared on television shows such as Shark, Close to Home, CSI: NY, Numb3rs,^{[citation needed]} and had a recurring role on Veronica Mars. She then appeared as Harper on a 13-episode series of short films called It's a Mall World, directed by Milo Ventimiglia, and airing on MTV, and then on the second season of Heroes as Debbie Marshall, the head cheerleader/captain of the cheer squad at Costa Verde High School. Dianna has also hosted a mini Music Festival for 826LA in Los Angeles called Chickens in Love.^[10]

She was among many young Hollywood stars selected to be in Wal-Mart's Ocean Pacific spring 2010 marketing campaign. The national campaign debuted in fashion, lifestyle and entertainment magazines such as Elle, Teen Vogue, Seventeen and Cosmopolitan, outdoor and online at the official Ocean Pacific website.^{[citation needed]} In addition, the celebrities hosted an Ocean Pacific party in Los Angeles in late April and made personal appearances on behalf of the brand.^[11]

Agron's most notable role to date is as Quinn Fabray, a high school cheerleader, on the Fox series Glee. The show has received high ratings and critical acclaim, including a Screen Actors Guild cast award in 2009^[12] and two Golden Globes for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.^[13][14]

In 2010, Agron directed the music video for "Body" by Thao with the Get Down Stay Down.^[15]

In 2010, Agron played the small role of Natalie, fiancée to main character Ali's love interest Jack, in the movie Burlesque alongside Christina Aguilera, Cher, and Stanley Tucci.

Agron was chosen by People to be part of their Most Beautiful 2010.^[16] She also came 8th in the 2011 Afterellen.com "Hot 100" list.^[17]

Agron appeared alongside Alex Pettyfer and Timothy Olyphant in the 2011 science-fiction action thriller I Am Number Four, directed by D. J. Caruso.

Agron appeared as herself in Punk'd.

The Biography Channel aired a Glee documentary named "Glee: Don't Stop Believing" on April 10, 2012, where Agron was interviewed about her role in the show.

Agron will host GLAAD Media Award on June 2, 2012 in San Francisco. Her co-stars of Glee, Naya Rivera and Cory Monteith hosted them on March 24, 2012 in New York City.

Agron came 13th in the 2012 AfterEllen.com "Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters" list, thanks to her character, Quinn Fabray, on Glee.^[18]

Personal life[link]

Agron at the Glee premiere party, May 11, 2009

Agron is a vegetarian and a supporter of PETA.^[19] Also an avid supporter of gay rights, Agron worked with The Trevor Project in 2012 to raise money in honor of her birthday. She promised to match all donations made to the organization by April 30, 2012.^[20]

Filmography[link]

Awards[link]

Discography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]