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[01TheDude]

2 hours ago, rsouxlja7 said:

So here's a story of my most recent purchase/annoyance. People contact me and it might be months before we end up meeting. This girl lived an hour away but could never meet because she didn't have a vehicle. She sent these photos: 

 

You'll note the Superboy 68, Fantastic Four 67, and the key Thor being the be best books of the bunch.

I kept her info and usually sent a message once per month to check back. A week ago she's finally able to meet me 30 mins away. She also found more comics and proceeded to send pics of around 50 Walt Disney, Looney Tunes, and other cartoon books. We set up the meet. 

It's a young girl, around 25, she shows up with her mom driving her. As soon as she opened the car's trunk and I saw a very small box with the cartoon comics on top I just knew she didn't bring any of the comics she sent the first time and I was right.

She said she gave a few comics to her nephew but definitely not as many as I said were missing. Her mom looks at her dumbfounded and is like "you forgot them?" At this point I was pretty annoyed but they offered to let me follow them to their house and get them, another 30 mins away. I already came this far and I'm a fiend for comics so I agreed.

She comes out of her house with another bag of comics and says this is absolutely all of them. I bought every non-cartoon comic. Here's what I ended up with:

 

So the girl either lost the Superboy 68 and the other good books or the nephew snatched them. Oh well, on to the next deal.

That started out reading like a Penthouse forum letter with the mom/daughter enticing you back to their home....

[rsouxlja7]

8 minutes ago, 01TheDude said:

That started out reading like a Penthouse forum letter with the mom/daughter enticing you back to their home....

Haha well the daughter did have really big fake boobs... Mom wasn't too bad looking either. 

[GeeksAreMyPeeps]

On 3/4/2017 at 4:53 PM, WeR138 said:

Not a flea market, but $8.00 at a local comic store. 

 

Nice! I have no pics of the slabs yet (shipping back to me now), but I got these from a dollar bin at a con a few years ago:

 

 

[Senormac]

3 hours ago, rsouxlja7 said:

Here's what I ended up with:

 

So the girl either lost the Superboy 68 and the other good books or the nephew snatched them. Oh well, on to the next deal.

[WeR138]

A few weeks ago, I got a call from someone who knows I'm into comics.  Someone they know was selling a few, so I said I would go check them out.

It didn't sound promising (I got a 90's drek vibe from the description), it was starting to get late, I was in the middle of some sorting, and I almost didn't go.

Out of a stack of beaters, I walked away with these.  They're definitely rough, but the 181 has the MVS.  I had none of these in my collection, so I'm pretty happy.

 

 

[ADAMANTIUM]

I assume that the IH 180 has the MVS too?

Awesome hall though  

[WeR138]

12 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

I assume that the IH 180 has the MVS too?

Awesome hall though  

Actually, it and a lot of the others that weren't worth posting had them cut out.  Very lucky for me.

[Aweandlorder]

16 hours ago, WeR138 said:

A few weeks ago, I got a call from someone who knows I'm into comics.  Someone they know was selling a few, so I said I would go check them out.

It didn't sound promising (I got a 90's drek vibe from the description), it was starting to get late, I was in the middle of some sorting, and I almost didn't go.

Out of a stack of beaters, I walked away with these.  They're definitely rough, but the 181 has the MVS.  I had none of these in my collection, so I'm pretty happy.

 

 

Dude. That's like a flush. Wow. 

Never had a collection that had all grails in one collection without having other books of great value alongside. Usually it would either be one (or 2 in the case of IH) or an entire collection with nothing but keys and grails. Congrats!

[Robot Man]

16 hours ago, WeR138 said:

A few weeks ago, I got a call from someone who knows I'm into comics.  Someone they know was selling a few, so I said I would go check them out.

It didn't sound promising (I got a 90's drek vibe from the description), it was starting to get late, I was in the middle of some sorting, and I almost didn't go.

Out of a stack of beaters, I walked away with these.  They're definitely rough, but the 181 has the MVS.  I had none of these in my collection, so I'm pretty happy.

 

 

Real nice "beaters"...

[WeR138]

It was a very strange mess of books that I walked in on.  There was 90's garbage, some other common bronze books that were in terrible shape, and these.  

The photo before uploading is a lot clearer and shows the extent of wear much better.  The top right of the 129 has extensive bug chew and they all have less than stellar page quality.

 

 

 

[ADAMANTIUM]

2 minutes ago, WeR138 said:

It was a very strange mess of books that I walked in on.  There was 90's garbage, some other common bronze books that were in terrible shape, and these.  

The photo before uploading is a lot clearer and shows the extent of wear much better.  The top right of the 129 has extensive bug chew and they all have less than stellar page quality.

 

 

 

Still Awesome though  especially sense you said that you didn't own them at the time 

a complete IH 181 would make me smile,  and I don't own a GSXM 1  

[1950's war comics]

20 hours ago, WeR138 said:

A few weeks ago, I got a call from someone who knows I'm into comics.  Someone they know was selling a few, so I said I would go check them out.

It didn't sound promising (I got a 90's drek vibe from the description), it was starting to get late, I was in the middle of some sorting, and I almost didn't go.

Out of a stack of beaters, I walked away with these.  They're definitely rough, but the 181 has the MVS.  I had none of these in my collection, so I'm pretty happy.

 

 

FANTASTIC FIND 

[FineCollector]

In the "I didn't think I wanted one until it appeared under my nose" category... 

[westerberg14]

3 hours ago, FineCollector said:

In the "I didn't think I wanted one until it appeared under my nose" category... 

what's the story for finding this book?  That would be odd to run into at the random garage sale...

[FineCollector]

40 minutes ago, westerberg14 said:

what's the story for finding this book?  That would be odd to run into at the random garage sale...

This was an online auction run by the local auction house.  They don't know anything about comics, but they were selling a pile of Spire Christian books, and I saw Ms. Hansi sticking out from the bottom of stack.  Thankfully this one was in the middle of the pile, so it held up well.  The next best book was Johnny Cash, so I'm glad the gamble paid off.

Also in the lot was a Twist-A-Ciser in box, which is essentially a wooden square which you stand on, and it pivots.  I have no idea what to do with it, but it's gotta be the shake-weight of that era.

[Brock]

51 minutes ago, FineCollector said:

This was an online auction run by the local auction house.  They don't know anything about comics, but they were selling a pile of Spire Christian books, and I saw Ms. Hansi sticking out from the bottom of stack.  Thankfully this one was in the middle of the pile, so it held up well.  The next best book was Johnny Cash, so I'm glad the gamble paid off.

Also in the lot was a Twist-A-Ciser in box, which is essentially a wooden square which you stand on, and it pivots.  I have no idea what to do with it, but it's gotta be the shake-weight of that era.

I had a Hansi and a Twist-a-ciser growing up. I guess when my Mom threw out my comics, she went to Gatineau...

[F For Fake]

14 hours ago, FineCollector said:

In the "I didn't think I wanted one until it appeared under my nose" category... 

Yeah, I ran across one of these at a show once and was tempted, but at the end of the day decided it didn't fit my collection. Interesting book for sure!

[F For Fake]

Another Saturday, another $1 sale! Per usual there's nothing earth shattering, but several solid $5-$10 books, and many that I am keeping for myself.

What set these books apart was that they appeared to be a single collection, and they are in super nice shape. Pretty much everything I pulled looks 9.6 or better, with only a couple of exceptions. That was especially nice when it came to the DCU variants.

So, a little bit of everything I like: some shiny 90's drek, some sharp copper Bats, some DCU variants, and lots of $1 spec books that I like to horde. The Venom stuff always sells for me, and those late Darkhawks are a major pain to find in grade. Also got some Bat and Wildcats newsstands for the personal collection, trying to piece together newsstand sets $1 at a time. Slow going, but fun!

 

[Aweandlorder]

2 hours ago, F For Fake said:

Another Saturday, another $1 sale! Per usual there's nothing earth shattering, but several solid $5-$10 books, and many that I am keeping for myself.

What set these books apart was that they appeared to be a single collection, and they are in super nice shape. Pretty much everything I pulled looks 9.6 or better, with only a couple of exceptions. That was especially nice when it came to the DCU variants.

So, a little bit of everything I like: some shiny 90's drek, some sharp copper Bats, some DCU variants, and lots of $1 spec books that I like to horde. The Venom stuff always sells for me, and those late Darkhawks are a major pain to find in grade. Also got some Bat and Wildcats newsstands for the personal collection, trying to piece together newsstand sets $1 at a time. Slow going, but fun!

 

Congrats on the DCUs! Ill take a DCU over a newsstand any day of the week. But then again... I also like combo packs

[F For Fake]

1 hour ago, Aweandlorder said:

Congrats on the DCUs! Ill take a DCU over a newsstand any day of the week. But then again... I also like combo packs

I like all of them, in moderation!