APDallas Posted January 27, 2021 Share Posted January 27, 2021 NO ON-LINE BUYS! NO LCS BUYS! Only flea market, estate sales or private buys from non-collectors! Show me the HUNT and your SPOILS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APDallas Posted January 28, 2021 Author Share Posted January 28, 2021 Great finds! I love the hunt! Gives me hope that there are still treasures to be found out there in the wild! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninanina Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Okay, I have a story. Can't remember exactly when...sometime in the late '70s or early '80's...I walked into a Grocery Store in a small town I can't remember where. There was a spinner rack filled with older comics. I found about 5 or 6 copies of Werewolf by Night 6 which came out in the early '70's. Here's the thing...they were all cover price. So, I bought all 6. Figured I couldn't go wrong with a Spider Woman appearance on the cover. Filed them away and still have them. I'm going by memory but I'm thinking they were all in the 9.0 range. They kind of had the look of comics he had out years ago, didn't sell them and then just decided to put them out. Considering these were all on a spinner wrack, I was truly amazed at the condition. Been collecting for 40 years and this was the only time I ever tripped over a find. electricprune 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 I found a all star comics 58 at the used bookstore last year, I was a nice read and glad to have hope for more that that store. It's only 2 blocks away, but even being so close, I dont go all the time, as turnover there is seldom. Hard to go through the same old stock, but deep down I'll think about it and say, i just have to go buy and look. Right now they have some early 100's iron man, and I've found other stuff there 1st published art of mcfarlane but that's copper. Still it's just nice to see BA at places like this, i have a feeling that its rare ish to see, and it fills me with joy! Morganmi and FoggyNelson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffro. Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 8 hours ago, ninanina said: I found about 5 or 6 copies of Werewolf by Night 6 which came out in the early '70's. Here's the thing...they were all cover price. So, I bought all 6. Figured I couldn't go wrong with a Spider Woman appearance on the cover. Werewolf By Night 6 with Spider Woman on the cover??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silversurfer275 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Jeffro. said: Werewolf By Night 6 with Spider Woman on the cover??? he probably means spiderwomen 6 could be wrong though mysterymachine, steveinthecity, aardvark88 and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
namisgr Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 On 1/26/2021 at 11:47 PM, APDallas said: NO ON-LINE BUYS! NO LCS BUYS! Only flea market, estate sales or private buys from non-collectors! Show me the HUNT and your SPOILS! HOW ABOUT COMIC BOOKS BOUGHT off THE RACK when THEY WERE FIRST PUBLISHED? littledoom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark88 Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 My buddy circa 1970 bought some silver age Marvel keys for literally pennies in a suburb of Toronto, ON, Canada. He found an Asian grocery store that also sold used comics and mags at the back. They just got in a collection of early Marvels that they took a felt pen to and began marking down the cover price from 12c to 6c since they were all used comics. He scooped ASM #1 x 2 copies, DD #1, ToS 58, 59 before they were marked on cover. He refused to pay the lofty price of 6c for the FF #1 since it was defaced on front cover with the 6c mark. Hey, 6c was a lot of money to a little kid in 1970. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninanina Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 On 1/29/2021 at 6:47 AM, silversurfer275 said: he probably means spiderwomen 6 could be wrong though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninanina Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) Sorry, it's obviously Spiderwoman 6 with Werewolf by night on the cover. I did say I was going by memory and it was a long long time ago. And, found this one in the early 80's. Edited February 1, 2021 by ninanina mysterymachine and ADAMANTIUM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whetteon Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) I walked into a flee market and found marvel team-up #141 in nm- with a $2 sticker on the bag about a year ago. Was pretty amazing to see. No one else ever cared in that entire store. Lol Edited March 7, 2021 by whetteon B2D327 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B2D327 Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 (edited) I remember the owner of a candy store had a stack of comics on top of a freezer in the back of his store that I never bothered to look through because I thought they’d be some of the kiddie books that didn’t interest me. To my surprise there were all the Byrne x men run, annuals, some silver age stuff, etc. I asked the store owner what the prices were and he grabs one, looks at the cover price and says ”50 cents”. I say, “each?” and he says, “yeah, or just give me $5 and take them all. My son gives them to me after he reads them and tells me to sell them and they’ve just been piling up there for the last few years”. There were about 60 books in the stack, many of the early marvel squarebound stuff in excellent condition for where they’d been sitting with the occasional store cat laying by them, licking his fur. I thought I struck gold because I could sell them to my friends for $1 a piece, not knowing anything about the over street price guide back then Edited March 8, 2021 by B2D327 ADAMANTIUM and whetteon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
