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[spreads]

10 hours ago, Bearcatcoach said:

For the 1st time in a couple months was able to (safely) buy a small collection that consisted of 6 long boxes of paperbacks, a mag box of mostly comic book marketplaces, a small box of comics, a couple boxes of hardbacks and a couple other boxes of miscellaneous stuff.....

A few pics of the cooler comic related books....happy days!

Those trades are great, I've never seen many of them before....

[Robot Man]

21 hours ago, Bearcatcoach said:

For the 1st time in a couple months was able to (safely) buy a small collection that consisted of 6 long boxes of paperbacks, a mag box of mostly comic book marketplaces, a small box of comics, a couple boxes of hardbacks and a couple other boxes of miscellaneous stuff.....

A few pics of the cooler comic related books....happy days!

Nice haul!  Marijuana Girl...

[Bearcatcoach]

1 minute ago, Robot Man said:

Nice haul!  Marijuana Girl...

Yeah, That one was cool.  1960 edition.  Couldn't find one on abebooks or ebay for a price check but I like it no matter what!

Can't wait to read the Lady El by Jim Starlin.  I read the Among Madmen years ago and really liked it....

[Robot Man]

On 4/30/2020 at 6:00 AM, spreads said:

Antique stores seem to be the epitome of laziness when it comes to valuing comics.  I found a great score of comics at a place that had 4-5 long boxes priced at $1 each (five copies of SSM 64 in there), but when you only have a few comics to value, you'd think you take a minute and put your coffee down to look up the price of a book.  

Great grab for you!!

Very true. On the rare occasions I see anything decent, prices are real low or real high. This Donald Duck is a linen book not really a comic book. Either way, $10. is a steal. You would think they would know a little better.

I hit an antique store in PA one time that had 3 or 4 Feature Books and a Large Feature Pluto. Lady wanted $5. each. She told me they were coloring books. I wasn't about to argue...

[Robot Man]

Found these in an antique store in Ohio with my wife on one our cross country buying trips a few years ago. Actually, she found them first and called me over. Damn, I love that girl!

[Bearcatcoach]

16 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

Found these in an antique store in Ohio with my wife on one our cross country buying trips a few years ago. Actually, she found them first and called me over. Damn, I love that girl!

Those are wonderful....

[Dark Knight]

All raw books that I picked up at a storage unit where a guy was selling his collectibles back in 2012.  He had about 4 or 5 storage units filled with different stuff like toys, cards, posters, autographed stuff, short and long boxes of comics, etc.  At that time, I was only interested in comics, boy I wish I picked up other stuff in his storage locker.  But anyways, this is what I bought:

6 copies of New Mutants #98 at $12 a piece..  All graded CGC 9.6

2 copies of Batman #200 for $100 each.  One graded out a 9.4 and the other a 9.6.

An original 1997 Batman the Animated Series cell framed and with a COA out of 500 made (just had to buy it)

What a great day that was

Edited May 8, 2020 by Dark Knight

[nochips]

Been working on this deal for a long time......Lots of multipacks...

 

 

Edited May 9, 2020 by nochips

[littledoom]

At the 2017 estate sale where I got the X-Men 94 among other high grade comics for 50 cents each, this was my good friend's haul at that sale.. good times.

 

Edited May 10, 2020 by littledoom

[spreads]

Checked out 12 longs today from a 'storage locker' buy....I don't know whether the seller or someone else stripped a lot of the books of value, but the lot was quite awful.  Listed for $1500, said he would do $1,000.....maybe in a couple days I'll offer less, it was pretty bad - a ton of it will be bulked out. Saw some decent stuff in there, but not a lot given the quantity....

[letsgrumble]

On 5/3/2020 at 10:37 PM, Bearcatcoach said:

For the 1st time in a couple months was able to (safely) buy a small collection that consisted of 6 long boxes of paperbacks, a mag box of mostly comic book marketplaces, a small box of comics, a couple boxes of hardbacks and a couple other boxes of miscellaneous stuff.....

A few pics of the cooler comic related books....happy days!

 

 

I remember buying most of those Marvel paperbacks in the top two rows as a kid and reading them.

It'd be fun to read one of those fine works of literature now.

[serling1978]

On 5/3/2020 at 10:37 PM, Bearcatcoach said:

For the 1st time in a couple months was able to (safely) buy a small collection that consisted of 6 long boxes of paperbacks, a mag box of mostly comic book marketplaces, a small box of comics, a couple boxes of hardbacks and a couple other boxes of miscellaneous stuff.....

A few pics of the cooler comic related books....happy days!

What are those Tales From the Crypt items? Books? 

[Robot Man]

The first one in the row and the 4th one are EC stories reprinted from around 1964 I believe. The two in the middle are text stories I think from the TV show?

[Robot Man]

NOT comics, but...

A fun estate sale find. Literally hundreds if flat sales man sample matchbooks. All flat and have no striker or matches. They came in a few binders inside plastic sheets. Sales guy would show them to potential customers. These are all pre-1941. Every possible product from caskets to elevators! The graphics and colors are amazing. I had fun for months with this stash!

[Michelangelo]

Antique show find from a few years back

Ignore the sticker prices on these. 
got the entire lot for $550 

The JIM 85 graded at 5.0 with off-white pages after a press fixed the spine roll. 
The IM 55 was mid grade 6.0-7.0

X-Men 4 was a GD

FF 45 was a VG

Edited May 14, 2020 by Michelangelo

[tdotcbc84]

4 hours ago, Michelangelo said:

Antique show find from a few years back

Ignore the sticker prices on these. 
got the entire lot for $550

The JIM 85 graded at 5.0 with off-white pages after a press fixed the spine roll. 
The IM 55 was mid grade 6.0-7.0

X-Men 4 was a GD

FF 45 was a VG

Was this in Toronto?

[Michelangelo]

2 hours ago, tdotcbc84 said:

Was this in Toronto?

Not exactly. It was about an hour west of the city

[Comics-n-ERB]

20 hours ago, Robot Man said:

NOT comics, but...

A fun estate sale find. Literally hundreds if flat sales man sample matchbooks. All flat and have no striker or matches. They came in a few binders inside plastic sheets. Sales guy would show them to potential customers. These are all pre-1941. Every possible product from caskets to elevators! The graphics and colors are amazing. I had fun for months with this stash!

These are really cool!  I would of loved to pick this up just for the fun of looking through them.

[Comics-n-ERB]

Okay, I'll play.

Several months ago I found a guy that had some comics he wanted to sell.  (I ended up getting them).  This man was a true hoarder.  Paths through his house, couldn't even get in the kitchen, doors wouldn't open fully; truly the worst cluttered place I had ever been in.  Anyway.........

He also had a near complete collection of Arkham House books.  For those not familiar with Arkham's, they are a specialty publisher of books starting in 1939.  He was missing less than 20 books from 1939-2010.

I was able to talk him into letting them go.  Here they are in my house.  Chronological order.  The last two shelves are stacked two deep.

 

He also had a real nice paperback collection.  Took another trip, but I got that too.

 

[mrwoogieman]

22 hours ago, Robot Man said:

NOT comics, but...

A fun estate sale find. Literally hundreds if flat sales man sample matchbooks. All flat and have no striker or matches. They came in a few binders inside plastic sheets. Sales guy would show them to potential customers. These are all pre-1941. Every possible product from caskets to elevators! The graphics and colors are amazing. I had fun for months with this stash!

It's a tuberculosis ball game?? Hell yes, let's go!