Bargain Bin Diving!

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Over the last few months I have sold close to 4 long boxes full of various 70s thru 90s runs. Most of this stuff is in my eyes "reader" copies. But people are paying me way more than I expected for stuff. Kinda feels like the early to mid 90s bubble.

It really does, and like that bubble, this one will have to burst too, I think?

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Grabbed a few other books yesterday.

R. Crumb's Comics And Stories (with an early Fritz The Cat story), 2nd print.
Monster Of Frankenstein #2 (great Mike Ploog art)
The Demon #1 (great Kirby art)

Those were more than $1 each, but I did also get some great $1 books as well.

New Mutants #1, 19
Bone #17
Captain America Annual #8 (great Mike Zeck cover)
Gambit #1
Conan The Barbarian #250
Silver Surfer #17, 31, 42, 61, 65, 66, 126, 127, 129, 130
Rom #2, 3, 8
Red Sonja Vol. 1 #2 (Frank Thorne art)

And a few issues of Amazing Heroes

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It really does, and like that bubble, this one will have to burst too, I think?

I figure the bubble has maybe 2 more years. Sadly that last time the comic bubble popped comics almost died.

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So my regular hook up in the Bronx was closed this weekend, he sells outside and it poured yesterday. A friend of mine turned me on to a place out in Long Island that does mostly online sales but opens their warehouse to the public a few times a month, so I made the hour long drive out there yesterday because I had nothing else to do.

Grabbed a few $1 scores...

Lone Wolf & Cub #9, 32
Princess Leia #1
Weird Science-Fantasy (Gemstone) #2
Weird Fantasy (Gemstone) #19
Venom #30, 33 (Cates run)
Warlock And The Infinity Watch #1
Warlock Chronicles #1
Taskmaster #1
Prez #1
Midnight Tales #18 (Charlton Horror)
Ghostly Tales #88 (Charlton Horror with some Ditko art and cover)
Detective Comics #27 (New 52 version, obviously, Frank Miller Catwoman cover)
Swamp Thing #144, 160, 161, 162
Moon Knight #11 (Lemire series)
Miracleman #2 (Eclipse series)
Conan The Barbarian #22 (latest series - Zub!)
Phoenix Song Echo #1
Dceased Dead Planet #2, 4
Jack The Lantern Free Comic Book Day #1 (Vigil art)
Eclipse Monthly #8
Basketfull Of Heads #1, 4
Crime Destroyer #2
Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #7 (Vigil drawing Green Lantern is weird!)

...and some $3 bin scores....

The Demon #16
Alien Encounters #6 (this is the issue that has the story in it that inspired John Carpenter's They Live)

...and some $5 scores.

Monster-Sized Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina (reprints 6, 7 and 8)
Gore Shriek Vol. 2 #1
Charlton Premiere #1
Elvira Mistress Of The Dark #1 (Claypool Comics)

All in all it was worth going to. This guy had a lot of great 80s/early 90s indie horror books, which I'm always into, and a lot of bronze age Charlton horror as well as the DC/Marvel stuff you expect. I went in with a $50 budget but could have spent a lot more had I left myself, haha.

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Picked this up yesterday, it was not in the dollar bin, haha.

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So this weekend, in addition to the local place I go to pretty much every Sat. morning, a store on the other side of Queens is going to have 50 long boxes of $1 books out in their parking lot to go through.

Then on Sunday, there's a spot in Long Island that is going to have a mini-con with 4-5 vendors set up in the morning, then the Queens Comic Swap (which is actually in Brooklyn) that afternoon. A friend and I are going to hit both of those.

I think this means I'm going to buy a lot of comics this weekend.

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Arleen and I went to Huntsville today and got hung up in a 15 mile back up on I-565. After spending an hour in this hell, we got off and took different roads that were all heavily congested due to the fiasco. To my delight, we passed an Ollie's and I didn't think we had any in the state. On the way back we stopped and I picked up the following:

Black Hood-The Lonely Crusade $3
Batman Adventures vol 4 $7
New 52 Future's End v3 $6
Superman Doomsday (2016) $4
DC Meets Hanna-Barbera v1 $4
The Punisher Cloonan v1 $4
DC Archive Thunder Agents v5 $9

They had "grab bags" of comics for $7, but I didn't give them too much of a look. Just happy to find the place!

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So this weekend, in addition to the local place I go to pretty much every Sat. morning, a store on the other side of Queens is going to have 50 long boxes of $1 books out in their parking lot to go through.

This was totally worth doing. While everyone else was digging through scores of recent X-Men, Batman, Spider-man stuff, I grabbed a big fat stack of about 60 issues of Heavy Metal from the 70s through to the mid-90s at 3 for $1!! - not all in the best of shape, but you can't argue with that price. I'm only going to keep the ones that have artists whose work I collect in them (got some Corben, Wrightson, Jeff Jones, Charles Burns, Guido Crepax and Milo Manara issues for the personal collection) due to space issues but I couldn't just leave them there.

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This was totally worth doing. While everyone else was digging through scores of recent X-Men, Batman, Spider-man stuff, I grabbed a big fat stack of about 60 issues of Heavy Metal from the 70s through to the mid-90s at 3 for $1!! - not all in the best of shape, but you can't argue with that price. I'm only going to keep the ones that have artists whose work I collect in them (got some Corben, Wrightson, Jeff Jones, Charles Burns, Guido Crepax and Milo Manara issues for the personal collection) due to space issues but I couldn't just leave them there.

You lucky, lucky b....!

Too right, they must be liberated.

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Some pick ups from yesterday's portion of the 'buying too many comics' weekend.

Revolver #1 (Ditko)
The Bladesmen #1 (Vigil, Steven Hughes)
Batman The Last Knight On Earth #1, 2, 3
Dragonforce #11, 12 (Keown)
Immortal Hulk #22, 24, 25
Full Metal Fiction #5, 6
Infinity Inc. #16 (McFarlane, 1st Mr. Bones)
Hellboy In Mexico #1 (Corben)
The Original Swamp Thing Saga #2 (Wrightson)
Judge Dredd #34 (Bolland)
Three-Dimensional Destroy!!! (Scott McLeod)
Ghostly Tales #153
The Original Ghost Rider Rides Again #1
X-Men Adventures #1
Jonah Hex #31 (Corben)
King Thor #1
X-Factor #1
War Machine #1
Venom Lethal Protector #2
Marvel Team-Up #144 (Moon Knight)
Echo Of Futurepast #4, 5 (Neal Adams, Mike Golden)
Last Of The Viking Heroes Special #1 (Frazetta cover)
Web Of Spiderman #90 (hologram cover)
Eerie #7 (Toth, Wrightson - this was the more recent DH series, not the original Warren run)
Hellraiser #12
Batman #406, 407 (Miller Year One)
Superman #18 (1st Doomsday)
All Star Batman #1
Nottingham #1 (3rd print)
Micronauts #5
Godzilla #8
Man-Thing #9
Rom #18
Sword of The Atom #1-4 (Gil Kane)\
Planet Sized X-Men #1
Catwoman #1

All were either $0.25/$0.50 or $1.00 each so I was pretty happy.

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Nice haul!

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Some pick ups from yesterday's portion of the 'buying too many comics' weekend.

Revolver #1 (Ditko)
The Bladesmen #1 (Vigil, Steven Hughes)
Batman The Last Knight On Earth #1, 2, 3
Dragonforce #11, 12 (Keown)
Immortal Hulk #22, 24, 25
Full Metal Fiction #5, 6
Infinity Inc. #16 (McFarlane, 1st Mr. Bones)
Hellboy In Mexico #1 (Corben)
The Original Swamp Thing Saga #2 (Wrightson)
Judge Dredd #34 (Bolland)
Three-Dimensional Destroy!!! (Scott McLeod)
Ghostly Tales #153
The Original Ghost Rider Rides Again #1
X-Men Adventures #1
Jonah Hex #31 (Corben)
King Thor #1
X-Factor #1
War Machine #1
Venom Lethal Protector #2
Marvel Team-Up #144 (Moon Knight)
Echo Of Futurepast #4, 5 (Neal Adams, Mike Golden)
Last Of The Viking Heroes Special #1 (Frazetta cover)
Web Of Spiderman #90 (hologram cover)
Eerie #7 (Toth, Wrightson - this was the more recent DH series, not the original Warren run)
Hellraiser #12
Batman #406, 407 (Miller Year One)
Superman #18 (1st Doomsday)
All Star Batman #1
Nottingham #1 (3rd print)
Micronauts #5
Godzilla #8
Man-Thing #9
Rom #18
Sword of The Atom #1-4 (Gil Kane)\
Planet Sized X-Men #1
Catwoman #1

All were either $0.25/$0.50 or $1.00 each so I was pretty happy.

My older brother had the original, giant-sized edition of DESTROY!, and it was one of the funniest comics I have ever read. Great art, and great writing.

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My older brother had the original, giant-sized edition of DESTROY!, and it was one of the funniest comics I have ever read. Great art, and great writing.

It's a seriously fun read and I was stoked to find it. The giant-sized version is pretty pricey when you can find it now.

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Hahah, sounds like you had a heck of a day rummaging. Great stuff.

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Arleen and I went to Huntsville today and got hung up in a 15 mile back up on I-565. After spending an hour in this hell, we got off and took different roads that were all heavily congested due to the fiasco. To my delight, we passed an Ollie's and I didn't think we had any in the state. On the way back we stopped and I picked up the following:

Black Hood-The Lonely Crusade $3
Batman Adventures vol 4 $7
New 52 Future's End v3 $6
Superman Doomsday (2016) $4
DC Meets Hanna-Barbera v1 $4
The Punisher Cloonan v1 $4
DC Archive Thunder Agents v5 $9

They had "grab bags" of comics for $7, but I didn't give them too much of a look. Just happy to find the place!

Ollies gets some pretty good stuff in ridiculously cheap. Cool that you found one. The grab bags i've seen at my store don't really seem to be worth it though.