Bargain Bin Diving!

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

And 15 minutes after I posted that I found out a store in Brooklyn was doing all of their $1 bin books at 4/$1 today, so I wandered over and left with 80 books for $20.

The Adventurers #1 (Peter Hsu art)

Alien Encounters #1 (Eclipse)

Books Of Magic #1, 2, 3 (the mini series)

Conan The Barbarian #63, 80, 81, 88, 99, 110, 115, 136, 197, 265 (original Marvel run)

Conan The Barbarian #10, 11 (new Marvel series)

Age Of Conan: Valeria #4

Conan The King #28 (Kaluta cover)

Conan The Cimmerian #2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12 (Dark Horse series, Linsner covers, Corben interiors on some)

Creatures On The Loose #32 (Man-Wolf vs. Kraven!)

Crystar The Crystal Warrior #8 (the Danzig belt buckle cover!)

Daredevil #172, 190, 192, 201, 203, 212 (a few of those are Miller issues)

Eradicators #4 (I always buy Silverwolf issues I don't have even though most of them suck)

The Fantastic World Of Arik Khan #2, 3 (dunno what this is but I like weird bronze age era indies so I grabbed'em)

Ghostly Tales #103 (Charlton Horror is rad)

House Of Mystery #249, 260, 317 (Kaluta covers)

House Of Secrets #144

Incredible Hulk #368 (the Sam Keith fill in issue)

Marvel Two In One #99 (The Thing and Rom!)

Offerings Book 2 (Cry For Dawn, cool art)

Savage Sword Of Conan #10, 11 (the new Marvel series)

Secrets Of The Haunted House #4

Showcase Presents The New Doom Patrol #94

Silver Surfer #9, 11, 62,73, Annual #5 (Ron Lim art on some issues)

Silver Surfer #2, 14, 15 (Allred art)

Silver Surfer Black #4, 5 (the art in this series is a trip)

Star Reach #8 (P. Craig Russell art)

Starslayer #8 (Grell art)

Super DC Giant: Challengers Of The Unknown #S-25 (64 pages of vintage Kirby)

Supernatural Thrillers #4 (Jekyll & Hyde)

Saga Of The Swamp Thing #6, 11, 12, 128

Swamp Thing #20 (Vaughn run)

Swamp Thing #32 (new 52 series)

DC Giant #65 (Kaluta art)

Tomb Of Dracula #41 (the #1 Fear Magazine!)

Uncanny Tales From The Grave #12

Witching Hour #67, 76 (great covers)

Worlds Unknown #2, 3 (rad monsters, Buckler art)

Also an issue each of Dell's Tom & Jerry and Spike Tyke series for Alison, haha.

[Scott Intellectual Carrot Find all posts View Profile Close Scott]

That's a helluva load!

[Newt Cox Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Newt Cox]

Damn that is a nice haul Ian.

I use to find stuff like that for a quarter back in the start of the 90s boom.

Too many shops now have bargin bins full of nothing but 90s glut stuff.

[paul h. woly boly Find all posts View Profile Close paul h.]

Sweet.

[Andrew Monroe Pallid Hands Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew Monroe]

Great haul, Ian! I went to my LCBS Saturday, all hyped to do some bargain box diving only to discover he has gotten rid of them. He told me he's not going to have cheap boxes anymore. I have no idea why, he couldn't really give me a reason. He's got plenty of room, it's a huge shop. I guess I won't be going there much anymore. The other shop across town has some (or did), I'll have to check them soon.

[Gary Banks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gary Banks]

Ian, ya did great. I'm jealous.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

I had to dig through a lot of junk to find that stuff, but it was fun.

[Gary Banks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gary Banks]

Due to the Pandemic we hadn't been to a Books-A-Million since March. They have a heavily discounted tpb section and as a member you get 10% off and if you have coupons, you can get up to an additional 25% off. Picked up the following:
Superman Kryptonite Nevermore $3.68
Marvel Knights Punisher Complete Ennis Collection v3 $7.38
Punisher Return To Big Nothing $9
Amazing Spiderman Hunted $7.33
Complete Black Panther By Hudlin v1 $7.33

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

So I took last week off but today I was back at it again. Here's what I grabbed for $1 a piece...

100 Swamp Thing Giant #1
100 Swamp Thing Giant #2
Silver Surfer (2nd Allred run) #10
Doctor Strange (70s run) #25
Swamp Thing (New 52 series) Annual #3
Monsters Unleashed (Midtown Comics Art Adams variant) #1
Secrets Of Sinister House 80-page Giant #1
Space Riders vol. 1 #1 (fuck yeah)
Turnbuckle Titans Presents Nikolai Volkoff #2

All modern stuff except for that Doctor Strange, but happy to have those issues at $1 a pop.

And I paid $2 a piece for these:

Machine Man #1 and #2 (BWS series)
The Black Hood #1, 2, 3 (Alex Toth art)
The Weird #1, 2, 3, 4 (not Wrightson's best art but I remember enjoying it as a kid so I grabbed it - used to have a set signed by him but lost it somewhere or sold it maybe)

[Newt Cox Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Newt Cox]

That Turnbuckle Titans issue is decent. Kinda crap art but decent story.

[Gary Banks Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Gary Banks]

The Swamp Thing(s) & Sinister House are definitely worth the one dollar price tag.

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

That Turnbuckle Titans issue is decent. Kinda crap art but decent story.

I didn't realize when I bought it there are 2 more to track down.

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A few pick ups yesterday...

Mighty Crusaders #2 (Red Circle, Rich Buckler art)
Six From Sirius #1 (Doug Moench, Paul Gulacy are a great team)
Aztec Ace #1 (Eclipse, remember this from when I was a kid but never read it)
Swamp Thing #1 (DC $1 comics edition)
Amazing High Adventure #1 (John Severin art)
Mr. Monster's 3-D High Octane Horror #1 (because it's rad)
Silver Surfer #45, 62, 63 (the 80s/90s series)
Conan The Barbarian #5, 6, 7, 8, 13 (the current Marvel series)
House Of Secrets #92 (facsimile edition)
Miracleman #1, 2 (the Marvel Gaiman/Buckingham series)
Swamp Thing #117 (a Nancy Collins issue, these are generally really good, plus art by Tom Mandrake and Shawn McManus)
Conan Age Of Valeria #1, 2 (almost completed the run)
Conan The Slayer #1, 6 (Cullen Bunn Conan stories are good!)

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Hit two stores today...

From the dollar bins!

Night Force #1 - because Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan.
The Shadow #6 - want to complete the Sienkiewicz run.
Weird War Tales #68 - great Joe Kubert cover.
Daredevil #148 - cause it was $1.
Conan The Cimmerian #1 - Truman and Corben art.
Swamp Thing #55 - Moore and Bissette.
Robo Hunter #1 - Looked fun, never read it.
Mystery In Space - Vertigo one shot, Kaluta story.
Conan The Barbarian #1 - the recent Marvel series.
Savage Sword Of Conan #12 - the recent Marvel series.
Aliens: Resistance #3 - because Aliens are rad.
Samurai #1 - I have a soft spot for some of these old Aircel titles.
3-D Laser Eraser And Pressbutton - I like 3-D comics.
Rom #25 - Double sized issue!
Primal #1 - Clive Barker story.

Then a friend gave me...

The Question: The Death of Vic Sage #1-4 - Cowyn and Sienkiewicz art, looks really cool.
Detective Comics #440 and #441 - low grade reader copies but there's some great stuff in here, some Toth art and Simonson Manhunter stories.

I also grabbed a few more non-dollar bin books!

Doorway To Nightmare #1 - 1st Madame Xanadu, great Kaluta cover.
Dark Horse Presents #24 - 1st Aliens story.
The Warlord #1 - nice Grell art and it was cheap.
Swamp Thing #49 - first Justice League Dark appearance for $3!
Beyond The Grave #1 - neat Charlton horror book.

All in all, a good day.

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Some more $1 bin scores...

Aliens Vol. 1 #5
Aliens Rogue #1
Dark Horse Comics #5
Redneck #2-6, 12, 17
Silver Surfer (Allred run) #2, 6, 13
Silver Surfer (Allred run v2.0) #11,
Silver Surfer (Vol. 3 80s/90s run) #8, 135
The Prisoner #1
Ghost Rider (2006 series) #6, 7 (Corben art!)