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The staff at Sunday's meeting said the dates for 2020 did not change from this years so the same weekend which translates into Aug 20-23 as TheWatcher posted

2020 date will be the same weekend in Aug as this year.....

Just over a week away! We'll be set up in booths 907, 909, 1006, & 1008.....Mark Scott Comics. We will have lots of great $2, 5, 10 & 20 boxes, discounted Silver & Gold comics, toys, comic magazines, posters, pulps & paperbacks....everything but the kitchen sink! Stop by for some great deals!

Got a call today about some old comics.....within an hour picked up this little 40 book Fawcett lot....happy with the transaction!

I used to love to go to this show when it was in Dayton and then Columbus OH but Pittsburgh is just too far for me to travel so unless it changes back to a former location unfortunately probably won't make it to this show again.

Lots of new pick-ups since the last Jim & Dan show in June....will have all these and more at the Aug 11th show....

Great 1 day show.....if you are in the area it is worth the trip! link: http://www.jimdancomics.com/Comic_Toy_Show_Dayton.htm We will be there with great $2, $5, $10 and $20 boxes....Lots of Toys....Gold, Silver & Bronze Age comics....pulps....lots of magazines....cheap tpb's and more. Come see us (Mark Scott Comics)...we will have a whole island right in front of the entrance....can't miss us!

Don't think any big Vans have that feature.....otherwise I do recommend a Transit for hauling a big load of comics or whatever. Loads like this.....no problem!

A Ford Transit Van will haul 100 long boxes.....and a smooth ride to boot!

I should have made a poll....who wants to pay $20 to clean out someone's trash! (Truthfully though on another day if I hadn't already had a full van and it would have been earlier in the day I might have taken that $20 plunge....) However, in one of the flats I bought in the main auction ring had this little surprise....a Creation Con program from 1979....not valuable but what makes it cool to me is that this was the first Comic Con I ever went to. I actually still have my original booklet signed by the guest of honor Jim Shooter! My Dad took me to that convention....only one he ever went to....but it ment the world to me that he would drive a couple of hours to Chicago so that I could get my geek on when geek wasn't cool....he's been gone a long time now but I still Love you Pops!

Wouldn't be the first or last time I made a bad call.....it is possible and even probable that there were a couple hidden gems in that steaming pile.....however my time is worth way more to me than to haul someone else's garbage way. I was more than happy to pass up that room and the 4 other rooms they sold for nothing....good luck to the couple people that bought them. Hope they find some good stuff to make it worth their time!

A cool binder of 30 superhero first day issue stamped envelopes was one of the items I won a the hoarder house auction yesterday....here are a few examples....

This room cost $20 at an auction today.....I was tempted just for the tubs alone....but in the end I passed as it would have taken me hours to go through the stuff and I didn't want to be in that house that long!

Another small batch purchased.....

Very Nice!

Not as nice condition but a small group shot of a few others picked up at the same time as the Horrific...

A recent pick up.....Decent shape copy in a great title....

Many years ago at the Motor City Con Jim Shooter bought the big Marvel Try Out Book from us.....his stories about how people used it to get jobs at Marvel were classic.... Rob Liefeld bought a book off our back board last year's WW Chicago.... The guy who plays Constantine on TV (Matt Ryan) bought a Hellblazer comic from us at WW Columbus last year and at the same show John Barrowman from Torchwood & Arrow bought a small stack of books from us. Sold stuff to many other professionals through the years like Steranko, Waid and so on.....

Owned this one for a week now....still just as cool as a week ago!

One to drool over.....

It was an estate auction so I had to bid against a couple guys to get them. There were other comics but mostly trash....I got the ones I wanted! Averaged around $100 each so while not a steal it was a decent enough price....

Estate auction today.....came home with these.

And....

Pre-code at its best!...happy to have these ....

I waited till I got back to my booth for the gloating to occur....everyone there was like "whatever" so it was anti-climatic for me....lol Of course I am sure that years ago I probably had them in my $1 boxes so what goes around comes around.....