The 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.

In 2010, historian and Overstreet Advisor Jon McClure introduced the term “Type 1A” to describe this type of cover price variant in The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #40 article “A History of Publisher Experimentation and Variant Comic Books.” 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, MyComicShop.com President Conan Saunders, CaptCan Comics proprietor Jayden Mitchell, Overstreet Advisor and GPAnalysis writer Dr. Greg Holland, and Toronto-based CPV researcher Salvatore Miceli.

The CPV Price Guide version 9 features new original articles including a fresh look at CPV population data on the CGC Census, plus an exploration of Archie “Phase Three” CPVs. GPAnalysis contributed their CPV sales data for a newly updated article by Holland analyzes the recent marketplace sales of CGC-graded CPVs.  “With upgraded guide tags this year, the v9 edition makes it easier to explore CPV creators and characters, plus we’ve also introduced new tools and features to help collectors keep track of their CPV collections as well as explore new collecting ideas among Canadian Price Variant newsstand comics,” Nobel said.

The CPV Price Guide has been released online at cpvpriceguide.com.