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srezvan

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Went to two yard sales that advertised comics. First one had a few short boxes. Picked up these 5 comics. Second yard sale had a ton of comics. No prices marked. Every comic was researched online for retail price. I don't have patience for those kinds of sales anymore, so I just picked up the novels and X-Men board game (complete). The Spider-Man novels in the slipcase are especially nice.

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Wall-Crawler

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21 hours ago, srezvan said:

Went to two yard sales that advertised comics. First one had a few short boxes. Picked up these 5 comics. Second yard sale had a ton of comics. No prices marked. Every comic was researched online for retail price. I don't have patience for those kinds of sales anymore, so I just picked up the novels and X-Men board game (complete). The Spider-Man novels in the slipcase are especially nice.

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LOVE those Spidey books!

 

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17 minutes ago, Wolverinex said:

NOICE!  did they know the value of those?  Also, did you know they were selling comics or did you just happen to find them randomly?

Just found them randomly. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut 

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Spent Saturday digging, didn't turn up much. Started at an auction that advertised 5-8000 comics from a private collector. Turned out to be about 30 boxes of 90's and early 00's common books, nothing of much interest, but figured I'd buy a few boxes if I could get them at about $25 each. They did them as choice, per box. First winner paid $100 for a single box, so I must have missed something in there. Second winner picked two at around $60 each. Third winner paid $40+ and picked up 20 boxes, didn't even look to see what was in them. They're now up on Craigslist for 60 cents per book if you buy 100 books. Good luck with that!

I was also interested in some Star Wars figs that also sold for more than I felt they were worth.

So, I ended up leaving the auction with only a handful of cherry Queen LP's for the personal collection.

Hopped in the car and drove 90 mins to a comic swap meet. It was put on by the folks that run Lexington Comic and Toy Con, but was advertised as comics and toys only, for the con-goers who don't care about retired wrestlers and former power rangers.

it was a fun little show, but not sure how successful it was for them. There were about 40-50 vendors, but not a ton of comics. Average attendance for LCTC is over 25,000, but I overheard someone say they'd only had about 300 attendees for this show. I hope it catches on, as I'd go back.

I stuck to the dollar boxes and picked up a few books. Nothing jaw dropping, but enough stuff to make the trip worthwhile.

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18 hours ago, www.alexgross.com said:

did they know what they had? pretty amazing haul you got there--

 

Thanks! Oh for sure he knew. Some items we were actually too far apart on, some outside my collecting sphere, but these three were too good to pass up! I'm only the third owner on the Xmen and the date stamp is great :cloud9:

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