Adventures in the Dollar Box 9 9

[fastballspecial]

On 3/4/2024 at 2:05 PM, littledoom said:

Flea market pick ups

Ive only seen that Gambit Legends copy one time very tough find. It reprints X-men 4 right?

[littledoom]

On 3/19/2024 at 4:36 PM, fastballspecial said:

Ive only seen that Gambit Legends copy one time very tough find. It reprints X-men 4 right?

Yes, you are correct! I used to have one from back in the day. It was a comic pack with the Gambit Marvel Legends Toybiz figurine

[Brock]

Dollar bin diving this week, though they're not all moderns...

[William-James88]

Here’s what I fished out of dollar bins yesterday

I didnt know that green lantern cover existed

 

[Mr. Spider-Woman]

I've read every Honor Harrington novel, many two or three times. So I had to grab these when I found them in a $1 bin. Then I had to go and buy the rest of this miniseries and the other Honor Harrington miniseries, too.

 

Edited March 24 by Mr. Spider-Woman

[Jesse-Lee]

Technically not dollar bin diving, but I bought a random 600-book collection for $200 Saturday. Nothing Earth-shattering in there (a lot of Batman and Bat-related run fillers but no keys, a lot of various Spidey titles, Captain Americas, Daredevils, etc.) - but there were a few decent books and a nice handful of modern newsies. Even a couple beat up silver age books. Still very well worth it at a $0.30 per book average - what I don't keep for my PC Batman run will go up for sale at upcoming shows.

 

First app of Ben Reilly as Scarlet Spider:

 

Web-man!

 

The Thanos-copter!

 

Hasbro Variant:

 

First Darth Hayze cover:

 

First Bride/Lady Frankenstein:

 

Secret Wars 1 2nd print virgin wraparound:

 

Silver age:

 

Newsstands:

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 3/25/2024 at 11:15 AM, Jesse-Lee said:

Technically not dollar bin diving, but I bought a random 600-book collection for $200 Saturday. Nothing Earth-shattering in there (a lot of Batman and Bat-related run fillers but no keys, a lot of various Spidey titles, Captain Americas, Daredevils, etc.) - but there were a few decent books and a nice handful of modern newsies. Even a couple beat up silver age books. Still very well worth it at a $0.30 per book average - what I don't keep for my PC Batman run will go up for sale at upcoming shows.

 

First app of Ben Reilly as Scarlet Spider:

 

Web-man!

 

The Thanos-copter!

 

Hasbro Variant:

 

First Darth Hayze cover:

 

First Bride/Lady Frankenstein:

 

Secret Wars 1 2nd print virgin wraparound:

 

Silver age:

 

Newsstands:

[Qalyar]

On 3/25/2024 at 11:15 AM, Jesse-Lee said:

Technically not dollar bin diving, but I bought a random 600-book collection for $200 Saturday. Nothing Earth-shattering in there (a lot of Batman and Bat-related run fillers but no keys, a lot of various Spidey titles, Captain Americas, Daredevils, etc.) - but there were a few decent books and a nice handful of modern newsies. Even a couple beat up silver age books. Still very well worth it at a $0.30 per book average - what I don't keep for my PC Batman run will go up for sale at upcoming shows.

 

First app of Ben Reilly as Scarlet Spider:

 

Web-man!

 

The Thanos-copter!

 

Hasbro Variant:

 

First Darth Hayze cover:

 

First Bride/Lady Frankenstein:

 

Secret Wars 1 2nd print virgin wraparound:

 

Silver age:

 

Newsstands:

You, um, got your money's worth out of that purchase.

Do make sure you do a page check on that Spidey Super Stories 39. That issue's in the period that had "Spidey Stamps", the kid brother to the MVS.

[BuraddoRun]

So besides the Transformers Hasbro Exclusive Cover and the By The Horns Ashcan, these weren't actually $1. They were half of cover price, courtesy of HPB.

 

[ADAMANTIUM]

After all the frivolity, I thought I'd try 😂 

 

Came up with an origin

[Qalyar]

On 4/10/2024 at 1:07 AM, BuraddoRun said:

So besides the Transformers Hasbro Exclusive Cover and the By The Horns Ashcan, these weren't actually $1. They were half of cover price, courtesy of HPB.

 

By the Horns was a pretty good little series, and that ashcan isn't super common. I'd consider that book a "hold". Frankly, Markisan Naso has had a couple good titles (Voracious, and this one). At some point, someone might notice...

Much of the rest of that pickup is just silly for half cover out of a random HPB box.

[William-James88]

On 8/26/2023 at 3:24 PM, ADAMANTIUM said:

@BuraddoRun

Not quite as high dollar as you but.

 

 

Incredible find for that Superboy, congrats!

[William-James88]

More dollar bin finds (mix of $1 and $2 comics, these 34 came out to $54)

Includes first bishop, first tri sentinel,first circuit breaker, first Monet, first Omega Red, first Jim Lee comic interior art and first Jim Lee cover art.

 

[BuraddoRun]

Found a stash of these Saturday (1st pic), then went back Sunday to spend more time digging and found a bunch more (remaining pics). All at HPB for half of cover, so $2.50  a pop. I never bought any of these combo packs polybagged when they were new, but someone mentioned somewhere how the bags disintegrate, and I gotta say, yeah, they definitely do! The Nite Owl book was bagged and boarded but still had the polybag inside, and when I rebagged it, plastic fell everywhere and made a huge mess. Every time I tried to pick up a piece of plastic, it would fall apart into even tinier pieces. So annoying! I'm thankful literally only that 1 book still had its original polybag. The rest looked like they were debagged shortly after they were originally purchased. So Protip: if you have some of these still polybagged, take them somewhere like your garage, or outside (though that's bad for the environment), or a Dexter-like kill room or something and extract your comics carefully so you can re bag-and-board them. That plastic is nasty stuff!

 

[fastballspecial]

On 4/15/2024 at 3:46 AM, BuraddoRun said:

Found a stash of these Saturday (1st pic), then went back Sunday to spend more time digging and found a bunch more (remaining pics). All at HPB for half of cover, so $2.50  a pop. I never bought any of these combo packs polybagged when they were new, but someone mentioned somewhere how the bags disintegrate, and I gotta say, yeah, they definitely do! The Nite Owl book was bagged and boarded but still had the polybag inside, and when I rebagged it, plastic fell everywhere and made a huge mess. Every time I tried to pick up a piece of plastic, it would fall apart into even tinier pieces. So annoying! I'm thankful literally only that 1 book still had its original polybag. The rest looked like they were debagged shortly after they were originally purchased. So Protip: if you have some of these still polybagged, take them somewhere like your garage, or outside (though that's bad for the environment), or a Dexter-like kill room or something and extract your comics carefully so you can re bag-and-board them. That plastic is nasty stuff!

 

Yeah the bags are absolute junk. Here we got sealed books from the 90s that still hold up well, but these
bags actually fall apart right in your hands. 

[BuraddoRun]

Pic 1 is modern, half of cover price buys. The rest came in $7 grab bags. They each had 20-25 comics in them, so these were 28 - 35 cents each. I bought 4 grab bags, and these are the highlights from them, though there was other fun stuff. Most are in F or higher condition, but that GI Joe 24 is pretty beat (though complete).