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[comicalgems]

I sold a beat up Hot Stuff 12 center for $6 at my wife's yard sale Sunday.

 

Now ya call it beat up

 

"gently used" or "vintage" were probably the key selling words. Double

[snitzer]

I'm guessing this is part of the "Toon" magazine series. I still have a number of "Cartoons" in my collection. I think Surftoons was another in the series. Great stuff and yeah, the magazine guys will know more - try that thread. No OSPG on these titles I believe.

 

I found this in the Craig's List pile. Magazine size. I've never heard of it, can't find it in Overstreet. Any info?

 

[DiceX]

My goal is to put together a full set of everything ever published and marketed by Mad Magazine.

I found a guy on Craigslist that was selling his collection of Mad, and this afternoon I went to check them out.

He had a full run of the regular series from issue #40 to present, about 3/4 of the Super Specials/More Trash/etc., a lot of the larger books, and about 3/4 of a mag box full of foreign issues including a #1 from the UK (I think).

 

Needless to say, they're now in my living room. I just started going through them before I came to work. There's a lot of stuff and will probably take me a week to get it all organized.

 

 

[Shark]

My goal is to put together a full set of everything ever published and marketed by Mad Magazine.

I found a guy on Craigslist that was selling his collection of Mad, and this afternoon I went to check them out.

He had a full run of the regular series from issue #40 to present, about 3/4 of the Super Specials/More Trash/etc., a lot of the larger books, and about 3/4 of a mag box full of foreign issues including a #1 from the UK (I think).

 

Needless to say, they're now in my living room. I just started going through them before I came to work. There's a lot of stuff and will probably take me a week to get it all organized.

 

 

Once you do your inventory, let me know if you need any of the specials. I have dupes of some of them. (thumbs u

[DiceX]

My goal is to put together a full set of everything ever published and marketed by Mad Magazine.

I found a guy on Craigslist that was selling his collection of Mad, and this afternoon I went to check them out.

He had a full run of the regular series from issue #40 to present, about 3/4 of the Super Specials/More Trash/etc., a lot of the larger books, and about 3/4 of a mag box full of foreign issues including a #1 from the UK (I think).

 

Needless to say, they're now in my living room. I just started going through them before I came to work. There's a lot of stuff and will probably take me a week to get it all organized.

 

 

Once you do your inventory, let me know if you need any of the specials. I have dupes of some of them. (thumbs u

 

I made it through the Super Specials but left my list at home. I know the only one missing the insert was #25, and that will complete the run through around #60. Most of what's missing is above #100, but there's several in the 60-100 range as well.

 

Thanks for the note. I'll send you a list of what's missing when I get home tonight.

 

 

[capt hook]

Any body get anything good this weekend. I passed by many a garage sale, but, sadly I had no time to explore.

[DR.X]

I frequent a huge flea-market in Cedar Lake on Sunday's. Last Sunday I was talking to a dealer who had some Sci-Fi mags on his table. He asked me " Are you interested in comics". Yeah what do you have. He took me around to the back where there were some storage sheds. Opened up the shed and Whamo. It looked like Mason Jar boxes packed with books up to the ceiling. Lots of them. I told him " this is going to take some time to go through." No problem he said, take your time. Says he bought them from a strorage locker aution.

Now this property is run by a couple who have a house in the front. It just so happened the guy I was talking to was the owner. So its 90 degrees out as I start to look through box after box. I'm sweating ing bullets and he's watching me asking me all kinds of questions.

Each box had about fifty books. All unbagged. All with badly torn covers, pieces missing, chunks out. They were mostly 12 and 15 centers with a few 10 centers here and there. Just terrible shape. I got down to the bottom box on one row and found a few decent Astonish and Suspense that were salvagable. I started making a small pile and he continued to talk. O.K, I have been in there sweating for over and hour looking through box after box when his wife zoooms up in a golf cart. She runs the flea market every weekend and drives this cart around to make sure everythings in order.

She looks like Jabba the Hut with long red hair and red lipstick bouncing around in the golf cart. Anyway, she pulls up and starts chewing this guys azz out nine ways to Sunday. " You gonna stay back here all day". W-T-F is going on. Now I'm trying to stay out of it.

" He has to buy everything or nothing, no cherry picking". I told her the guy said they were his books. He then started stuttering saying " Well everything thats mine is hers to. I told him if you wanted to sell the whole shot why didnt you just say something instead of me wasting my ing morning looking through ripped up krap. She slammed the shed door shut and off she went. I'm lucky I made it out alive.

 

DRX

Edited July 19, 2010 by DRX

[hulksmashdave]

I frequent a huge flea-market in Cedar Lake on Sunday's. Last Sunday I was talking to a dealer who had some Sci-Fi mags on his table. He asked me " Are you interested in comics". Yeah what do you have. He took me around to the back where there were some storage sheds. Opened up the shed and Whamo. It looked like Mason Jar boxes packed with books up to the ceiling. Lots of them. I told him " this is going to take some time to go through." No problem he said, take your time. Says he bought them from a strorage locker aution.

Now this property is run by a couple who have a house in the front. It just so happened the guy I was talking to was the owner. So its 90 degrees out as I start to look through box after box. I'm sweating ing bullets and he's watching me asking me all kinds of questions.

Each box had about fifty books. All unbagged. All with badly torn covers, pieces missing, chunks out. They were mostly 12 and 15 centers with a few 10 centers here and there. Just terrible shape. I got down to the bottom box on one row and found a few decent Astonish and Suspense that were salvagable. I started making a small pile and he continued to talk. O.K, I have been in there sweating for over and hour looking through box after box when his wife zoooms up in a golf cart. She runs the flea market every weekend and drives this cart around to make sure everythings in order.

She looks like Jabba the Hut with long red hair and red lipstick bouncing around in the golf cart. Anyway, she pulls up and starts chewing this guys azz out nine ways to Sunday. " You gonna stay back here all day". W-T-F is going on. Now I'm trying to stay out of it.

" He has to buy everything or nothing, no cherry picking". I told her the guy said they were his books. He then started stuttering saying " Well everything thats mine is hers to. I told him if you wanted to sell the whole shot why didnt you just say something instead of me wasting my ing morning looking through ripped up krap. She slammed the shed door shut and off she went. I'm lucky I made it out alive.

 

DRX

 

Did you at least get to keep the Astonish/Suspenses?

[mrwoogieman]

Two "rescues from the wild" this past weekend.

 

From the first guy, I got three Cavewoman issues, first Macross issue from Comico, couple GI Joe issues. Those were .50 each.

 

From the second guy, I got three Uncannys in the 160s that looked real nice for a buck each, and an oversized Simpsons trade that had a $14.95 cover price for $1.

 

(thumbs u

[DR.X]

I frequent a huge flea-market in Cedar Lake on Sunday's. Last Sunday I was talking to a dealer who had some Sci-Fi mags on his table. He asked me " Are you interested in comics". Yeah what do you have. He took me around to the back where there were some storage sheds. Opened up the shed and Whamo. It looked like Mason Jar boxes packed with books up to the ceiling. Lots of them. I told him " this is going to take some time to go through." No problem he said, take your time. Says he bought them from a strorage locker aution.

Now this property is run by a couple who have a house in the front. It just so happened the guy I was talking to was the owner. So its 90 degrees out as I start to look through box after box. I'm sweating ing bullets and he's watching me asking me all kinds of questions.

Each box had about fifty books. All unbagged. All with badly torn covers, pieces missing, chunks out. They were mostly 12 and 15 centers with a few 10 centers here and there. Just terrible shape. I got down to the bottom box on one row and found a few decent Astonish and Suspense that were salvagable. I started making a small pile and he continued to talk. O.K, I have been in there sweating for over and hour looking through box after box when his wife zoooms up in a golf cart. She runs the flea market every weekend and drives this cart around to make sure everythings in order.

She looks like Jabba the Hut with long red hair and red lipstick bouncing around in the golf cart. Anyway, she pulls up and starts chewing this guys azz out nine ways to Sunday. " You gonna stay back here all day". W-T-F is going on. Now I'm trying to stay out of it.

" He has to buy everything or nothing, no cherry picking". I told her the guy said they were his books. He then started stuttering saying " Well everything thats mine is hers to. I told him if you wanted to sell the whole shot why didnt you just say something instead of me wasting my ing morning looking through ripped up krap. She slammed the shed door shut and off she went. I'm lucky I made it out alive.

 

DRX

 

Did you at least get to keep the Astonish/Suspenses?

 

Nothing, I was escorted off the property.

 

DRX

[hulksmashdave]

I frequent a huge flea-market in Cedar Lake on Sunday's. Last Sunday I was talking to a dealer who had some Sci-Fi mags on his table. He asked me " Are you interested in comics". Yeah what do you have. He took me around to the back where there were some storage sheds. Opened up the shed and Whamo. It looked like Mason Jar boxes packed with books up to the ceiling. Lots of them. I told him " this is going to take some time to go through." No problem he said, take your time. Says he bought them from a strorage locker aution.

Now this property is run by a couple who have a house in the front. It just so happened the guy I was talking to was the owner. So its 90 degrees out as I start to look through box after box. I'm sweating ing bullets and he's watching me asking me all kinds of questions.

Each box had about fifty books. All unbagged. All with badly torn covers, pieces missing, chunks out. They were mostly 12 and 15 centers with a few 10 centers here and there. Just terrible shape. I got down to the bottom box on one row and found a few decent Astonish and Suspense that were salvagable. I started making a small pile and he continued to talk. O.K, I have been in there sweating for over and hour looking through box after box when his wife zoooms up in a golf cart. She runs the flea market every weekend and drives this cart around to make sure everythings in order.

She looks like Jabba the Hut with long red hair and red lipstick bouncing around in the golf cart. Anyway, she pulls up and starts chewing this guys azz out nine ways to Sunday. " You gonna stay back here all day". W-T-F is going on. Now I'm trying to stay out of it.

" He has to buy everything or nothing, no cherry picking". I told her the guy said they were his books. He then started stuttering saying " Well everything thats mine is hers to. I told him if you wanted to sell the whole shot why didnt you just say something instead of me wasting my ing morning looking through ripped up krap. She slammed the shed door shut and off she went. I'm lucky I made it out alive.

 

DRX

 

Did you at least get to keep the Astonish/Suspenses?

 

Nothing, I was escorted off the property.

 

DRX

 

Be careful or you will end up in carbonite.

[CatskillMike]

I frequent a huge flea-market in Cedar Lake on Sunday's. Last Sunday I was talking to a dealer who had some Sci-Fi mags on his table. He asked me " Are you interested in comics". Yeah what do you have. He took me around to the back where there were some storage sheds. Opened up the shed and Whamo. It looked like Mason Jar boxes packed with books up to the ceiling. Lots of them. I told him " this is going to take some time to go through." No problem he said, take your time. Says he bought them from a strorage locker aution.

Now this property is run by a couple who have a house in the front. It just so happened the guy I was talking to was the owner. So its 90 degrees out as I start to look through box after box. I'm sweating ing bullets and he's watching me asking me all kinds of questions.

Each box had about fifty books. All unbagged. All with badly torn covers, pieces missing, chunks out. They were mostly 12 and 15 centers with a few 10 centers here and there. Just terrible shape. I got down to the bottom box on one row and found a few decent Astonish and Suspense that were salvagable. I started making a small pile and he continued to talk. O.K, I have been in there sweating for over and hour looking through box after box when his wife zoooms up in a golf cart. She runs the flea market every weekend and drives this cart around to make sure everythings in order.

She looks like Jabba the Hut with long red hair and red lipstick bouncing around in the golf cart. Anyway, she pulls up and starts chewing this guys azz out nine ways to Sunday. " You gonna stay back here all day". W-T-F is going on. Now I'm trying to stay out of it.

" He has to buy everything or nothing, no cherry picking". I told her the guy said they were his books. He then started stuttering saying " Well everything thats mine is hers to. I told him if you wanted to sell the whole shot why didnt you just say something instead of me wasting my ing morning looking through ripped up krap. She slammed the shed door shut and off she went. I'm lucky I made it out alive.

 

DRX

 

Was the banjo player there from Deliverance?

 

Edited July 19, 2010 by CatskillMike

[Beau]

 

Did you at least get to keep the Astonish/Suspenses?

 

Nothing, I was escorted off the property.

 

DRX

 

At least she didn't try to feed you to the Rancor. You should have known your Jedi mind tricks wouldn't work on her!

[sakaridis]

I frequent a huge flea-market in Cedar Lake on Sunday's. Last Sunday I was talking to a dealer who had some Sci-Fi mags on his table. He asked me " Are you interested in comics". Yeah what do you have. He took me around to the back where there were some storage sheds. Opened up the shed and Whamo. It looked like Mason Jar boxes packed with books up to the ceiling. Lots of them. I told him " this is going to take some time to go through." No problem he said, take your time. Says he bought them from a strorage locker aution.

Now this property is run by a couple who have a house in the front. It just so happened the guy I was talking to was the owner. So its 90 degrees out as I start to look through box after box. I'm sweating ing bullets and he's watching me asking me all kinds of questions.

Each box had about fifty books. All unbagged. All with badly torn covers, pieces missing, chunks out. They were mostly 12 and 15 centers with a few 10 centers here and there. Just terrible shape. I got down to the bottom box on one row and found a few decent Astonish and Suspense that were salvagable. I started making a small pile and he continued to talk. O.K, I have been in there sweating for over and hour looking through box after box when his wife zoooms up in a golf cart. She runs the flea market every weekend and drives this cart around to make sure everythings in order.

She looks like Jabba the Hut with long red hair and red lipstick bouncing around in the golf cart. Anyway, she pulls up and starts chewing this guys azz out nine ways to Sunday. " You gonna stay back here all day". W-T-F is going on. Now I'm trying to stay out of it.

" He has to buy everything or nothing, no cherry picking". I told her the guy said they were his books. He then started stuttering saying " Well everything thats mine is hers to. I told him if you wanted to sell the whole shot why didnt you just say something instead of me wasting my ing morning looking through ripped up krap. She slammed the shed door shut and off she went. I'm lucky I made it out alive.

 

DRX

 

Did you at least get to keep the Astonish/Suspenses?

 

Nothing, I was escorted off the property.

 

DRX

You should've beaten the out of them and buried their bodies in the damn books.

 

Or at the very least, you should've told them to off in a variety of colorful and memorable ways (thumbs u

[DR.X]

 

Did you at least get to keep the Astonish/Suspenses?

 

Nothing, I was escorted off the property.

 

DRX

 

At least she didn't try to feed you to the Rancor. You should have known your Jedi mind tricks wouldn't work on her!

 

I'd rather take a chance on the Rancor than dealing with her. As I was going back to my truck the only thought in my mind was " would Dice X hit it."

 

DRX

[DR.X]

Be careful or you will end up in carbonite.

 

At least with carbonite I may wake up. With her the odds would be zero. I should have snapped a pic on my cell phone but the mods would have yanked the whole thread immediately and banned me for life'

 

 

DRX

[jools&jim]

 

I ran across these somewhat hard-to-find hardcover DC treasuries (co-published by DC and Lyle Stuart) while making the antique store/junkshop rounds this weekend:

 

 

I've seen these at shows every now and again (usually with a high price tag), but very rarely in "the wild", so it was a neat and unexpected find.

 

I still have my original copy of the Sensation #1 reprint (minus the dust jacket) -- I think I paid a dollar for it in 1976 from a little mom-and-pop bookstore in Camp Hill, PA. And here's a shot of what these would have cost you at Walden Books (which is apparently where this batch originated from) back when they were blowing them out, too:

 

[comicwiz]

I ran across these somewhat hard-to-find hardcover DC treasuries (co-published by DC and Lyle Stuart) while making the antique store/junkshop rounds this weekend:

 

 

I've seen these at shows every now and again (usually with a high price tag), but very rarely in "the wild", so it was a neat and unexpected find.

 

I still have my original copy of the Sensation #1 reprint (minus the dust jacket) -- I think I paid a dollar for it in 1976 from a little mom-and-pop bookstore in Camp Hill, PA. And here's a shot of what these would have cost you at Walden Books (which is apparently where this batch originated from) back when they were blowing them out, too:

 

 

Cool stuff! I never knew they made HC editions. Nice find!

[DR.X]

I run across of few of those now and then. The don't pop up that often but are cool. Glad someone found something over the weekend.

 

DRX

Edited July 20, 2010 by DRX

[comicwiz]

Here is an excerpt from an ad for a garage sale that happened last Saturday:

 

COMIC BOOKS ( 70's to curr) and some CGC and some classics ( ie Justice League # 2, X-Men #100)

 

So I got up early and was the first to arrive. I missed out on a few garage sales just this past month because early birds hauled everything away so I really wanted to avoid this from happening again. Anyhow, there were about 10 long boxes and I decided to stick with BA Spidey's and walked away with some of the nicer grades. All in all, I'm glad I went. The mistake he made (likely due to familiarity with modern) was pricing the late 80's and 90's stuff too high, and his early stuff on the low side. Some of the notable issues were an ASM 100 and 238, and 8 other 20/25/30 cent ASM's issues that I can't recall by memory, but were in too nice a shape to pass up. I also picked up an old childhood fav of mine - Fun and Games #1