Adventures in the Dollar Box 9 9

[Qalyar]

7 hours ago, manetteska said:

Finally got out to a small local show. Though I know I should be flipping the big keys for big money, I spent nearly all of my time in the cheap boxes. 

$1 each. 

2 for $1. 

Some nice stuff there. Xombi hardly ever shows up in these boxes in my experience. That Rising Stars Preview is a nice book, too, although the series doesn't have quite the following it used to. 

And because I like commenting on the weird stuff... I doubt that L.A. Raptor 1 is worth much. But it's a pretty interesting little Jurassic Park-esque B&W indie. Can do a lot worse with a buck. A #2 does exist, if you decide you just need to hunt down more of it.

[manetteska]

14 hours ago, Qalyar said:

Some nice stuff there. Xombi hardly ever shows up in these boxes in my experience. That Rising Stars Preview is a nice book, too, although the series doesn't have quite the following it used to. 

And because I like commenting on the weird stuff... I doubt that L.A. Raptor 1 is worth much. But it's a pretty interesting little Jurassic Park-esque B&W indie. Can do a lot worse with a buck. A #2 does exist, if you decide you just need to hunt down more of it.

There were a ton of boxes with zero organization -- that's why they were $0.50 each. I would find a glut of West Coast Avengers and then it would switch to Death of Superman, etc. I still pull Rising Stars Preview/0/1 whenever they are cheap, just in case.

I had the same thought on LA Raptor -- no idea what it is but the cover was too good to pass up. There probably is a #2 somewhere in that mess, but is it worth my time to look for it?... Existential questions.

[the blob]

On 3/1/2021 at 8:49 PM, Qalyar said:

Some nice stuff there. Xombi hardly ever shows up in these boxes in my experience. That Rising Stars Preview is a nice book, too, although the series doesn't have quite the following it used to. 

And because I like commenting on the weird stuff... I doubt that L.A. Raptor 1 is worth much. But it's a pretty interesting little Jurassic Park-esque B&W indie. Can do a lot worse with a buck. A #2 does exist, if you decide you just need to hunt down more of it.

 i find it mind boggling that dealers at a local show are unloading decent stuff at $1 a pop in this ebay climate. 

apparently some west coast avengers book is getting hot because of falcon winter soldier. i know i have at least 3 copies. in the back of my garage where my "yardsale" comics are sitting because i considered bringing them back into the house a couple of months ago. unfortunately, i have since piled so much junk in my garage since then (basically everything in my yard to avoid it getting covered in snow) it will take me an hour to get to them. are 3 $15 books worth it? will the book still be hot when I have to get that stuff out into the backyard in a month anyway?

 

[manetteska]

5 hours ago, the blob said:

On 3/1/2021 at 7:49 PM, Qalyar said:

Some nice stuff there. Xombi hardly ever shows up in these boxes in my experience. That Rising Stars Preview is a nice book, too, although the series doesn't have quite the following it used to. 

And because I like commenting on the weird stuff... I doubt that L.A. Raptor 1 is worth much. But it's a pretty interesting little Jurassic Park-esque B&W indie. Can do a lot worse with a buck. A #2 does exist, if you decide you just need to hunt down more of it.

 i find it mind boggling that dealers at a local show are unloading decent stuff at $1 a pop in this ebay climate. 

apparently some west coast avengers book is getting hot because of falcon winter soldier. i know i have at least 3 copies. in the back of my garage where my "yardsale" comics are sitting because i considered bringing them back into the house a couple of months ago. unfortunately, i have since piled so much junk in my garage since then (basically everything in my yard to avoid it getting covered in snow) it will take me an hour to get to them. are 3 $15 books worth it? will the book still be hot when I have to get that stuff out into the backyard in a month anyway?

I may be reading this wrong, but it sounds like you also had decent stuff (i.e. the West Coast Avengers issues) in your yardsale (discount) bins as well.

[IbukiLord]

[OtherEric]

5 hours ago, IbukiLord said:

You win some, you lose some...

[ADAMANTIUM]

$1 sure why not

 

[THE_BEYONDER]

50 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

$1 sure why not

 

First Terminator

If the new animated series takes off this could get hot

[ADAMANTIUM]

1 minute ago, THE_BEYONDER said:

First Terminator

If the new animated series takes off this could get hot

ya it's kind of a beat 3.5 or 4.0 but still, for $1, and I've seen it there for a while, today it just made sense to pick up  

[the blob]

23 hours ago, manetteska said:

I may be reading this wrong, but it sounds like you also had decent stuff (i.e. the West Coast Avengers issues) in your yardsale (discount) bins as well.

i haven't done a yardsale in 2 or 3 years and some of that is drek I put in there 5 or 6 years ago that never sold. the west coast avengers books were worthless until recently. When I do pull the "garage" boxes out for a sale i flip through them to make sure. i did that a long while ago when I had a bunch of deadpool (1st series!) in there that had suddenly become worthwhile, i think they had been in the year before and nobody bought any of them! the WC avengers book I am thinking of I looked up in like october when I was in the back of my garage to see if it was worth anything, it wasn't, so I left it there. WC avengers were so dead for so long my old shop literally had them in a 10 cent box.

Edited March 6, 2021 by the blob

[OtherEric]

Was looking through a box at home that was largely unsorted dollar bin pickups from the last couple years.  At the time, I grabbed this one purely on the principle of “nice Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez cover, that’s worth a dollar.”  I then threw it in a box and forgot about it:

[the blob]

3 hours ago, OtherEric said:

Was looking through a box at home that was largely unsorted dollar bin pickups from the last couple years.  At the time, I grabbed this one purely on the principle of “nice Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez cover, that’s worth a dollar.”  I then threw it in a box and forgot about it:

I am dumbfounded why I don't have that. I have many from that era.

[littledoom]

Went to a comic sale. These all came out to less than .20cents each. Paid $100 for two longboxes.

 

 

[maidenmate91]

14 minutes ago, littledoom said:

Went to a comic sale. These all came out to less than .20cents each. Paid $100 for two longboxes.

 

 

[Qalyar]

18 minutes ago, littledoom said:

Went to a comic sale. These all came out to less than .20cents each. Paid $100 for two longboxes.

 

 

Nicely done. There's quite a bit in there worth more than a quarter! There's a lot to love, but just want to highlight that Promethea #32 because I'm always jealous of people who find those in the wild for cheap.

[littledoom]

1 minute ago, Qalyar said:

Nicely done. There's quite a bit in there worth more than a quarter! There's a lot to love, but just want to highlight that Promethea #32 because I'm always jealous of people who find those in the wild for cheap.

yeah it's definitely not easy to find. I bought 15 other issues in that series at the sale.

[maidenmate91]

9 hours ago, Qalyar said:

Nicely done. There's quite a bit in there worth more than a quarter! There's a lot to love, but just want to highlight that Promethea #32 because I'm always jealous of people who find those in the wild for cheap.

I'm jealous of the x-men #1 anniversary one shot Jim Lee. 

[littledoom]

3 hours ago, maidenmate91 said:

I'm jealous of the x-men #1 anniversary one shot Jim Lee. 

That's one that I found late at the end of the sale.. first time owing a copy

[AmazingComics413]

First real shopping trip with my wife since covid. I dropped her at a mall while I went to a couple antique shops. Found this book (I’ve been looking to replace after selling my last copy). The store did not have comics out on display, always ask.

After hitting a couple antique shops with a couple scores here and there, my wife texted me and said there was a collectible store at the mall. Blasphemy, I thought to myself. I headed back and the store had an excellent back issue selection, nothing past 2004. The silver was priced wayyyy too high, as were all the Disney/Duck books. The bronze to modern was all priced $1-20. Nothing was alphabetical. Long story short, the owners could not believe I was going to look at every book, and I left with a short box full. Here are a few I’ve had time to scan...

[ADAMANTIUM]

5 hours ago, AmazingComics413 said:

First real shopping trip with my wife since covid. I dropped her at a mall while I went to a couple antique shops. Found this book (I’ve been looking to replace after selling my last copy). The store did not have comics out on display, always ask.

After hitting a couple antique shops with a couple scores here and there, my wife texted me and said there was a collectible store at the mall. Blasphemy, I thought to myself. I headed back and the store had an excellent back issue selection, nothing past 2004. The silver was priced wayyyy too high, as were all the Disney/Duck books. The bronze to modern was all priced $1-20. Nothing was alphabetical. Long story short, the owners could not believe I was going to look at every book, and I left with a short box full. Here are a few I’ve had time to scan...

That is awesome, and now you can spend mutual quality time at the mall!

Glad there was an added place, and also that it wasn't already picked through  

I dig the Rogue and Gambit cover, I've owned several over the years, not sure if I still own it, but odd that "it" can move rather than say X-men 30 with the wedding of Jean and Scott idk, it really is a cool cover though