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On 9/27/2022 at 7:17 PM, Robot Man said:

I of course, got a couple Treasure Hunts. But what was truly amazing is I got THREE yes THREE Super Treasure Hunts! I have only found 3 in two years looking. Almost always none. As near as I can tell, they got 5 boxes and I scored the best of them. My best day EVER. Kind of like finding a box of GA at the flea market. (No, not even close) but amazing. I’m stoked and my daughter who has only found one will be wetting her pants.

For those of you who don’t know, it is that little “TH” on the sides and the special paint. There is usually one in every 10-12 boxes. What are the odds of finding 3 in 5 boxes? Maybe I should go buy a lottery ticket today! 

On 11/6/2022 at 9:34 PM, Robot Man said:

Major score today! Wandered into Target with my wife this morning and decided to check the Hot Wheels isle. My eyes popped out when I saw 5 new Q cases on the cart! I was the only one there. I have rarely been first on a new shipment and NEVER this many.

I carefully picked the first box of one of each all the cars my daughter wanted. Then I went through the rest. Last box had this beautiful Super Treasure Hunt Camaro!

Just as I was finishing another guy showed up. He was a nice guy so I gave him one of the Mustang TH cars.

Good thing I was first because he was cleaning out multiples of all the hot cars.

Sure was fun!

You've done great this year! Better then me,sadly this is the first year in over 20+ years I didn't find a super for the year.to be fair I've found other brand chases but those supers...

Lol somebody had to do it. At least those Target reds are good.i'd dump them now while they're worth 20+ a piece or trade them for a super.

And just so you don't feel too bad,I haven't found a super this year.

On 5/4/2022 at 12:20 AM, Robot Man said:

Fun score today. Just happened to walk into my local Target and the nice young lady was hanging a fresh box. Got the second set of Target limited edition red editions. They come out every couple of months with usually two sets per box. Not every box has them either. They are always gone when I get there.

And if that wasn’t good enough, I got my second Super Treasure Hunt!

I bought a bunch and the girl said I could just have the empty box. 

Hate to break it to you,but that's the mainline.the super has gold 4 spokes and rubber tires of course.the red is close on the super vs mainline but not seethru(spectraflame) a good way to tell if you have a super is to look behind the car on the card and look for a gold flamed logo.

Added a pic of the super kafer next to the mainline also note the card art of the car has different wheels.and also somewhere on the car there will be a 'TH' logo for treasure hunt.

O!O thats incredible! First punisher for $3? Was this the same estate sale littledoom went also? You guys cleaned up.

So no more adult only sections. There were lots of comics listed there.i got lots of good deals,mostly for vigil books.

I'd imagine you can still sell if you block nudity from being seen on the covers.

Still,no more porn on ebay at all now.that has to be a big blow monetarily.

Can they try to make ebay any worse?

Okay so one for the serious response side.

Back around 2012 I sold off a large portion of my vintage hot wheels redline collection. To those that think hot wheels and especially vintage 60s and 70s ones have no value,your missing out.i still have a bunch,still look for them and still sell them.

I made somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000.wont devuldge the exact amount but will say.i pretty much bought every single marvel mega key and long runs of all titles and tons of other comics.about 50+ short boxes.

I feel my collection for what I have in is probably 4x more.i did flip the FF1 already.but am still happy with what I got for it.ive been done pretty much as the few missing big books like AF15 mainly are just not gonna happen.

More pics.if interested make an offer.

Have an ungraded copy here.my estimate is about a 4.0. Yes its in a mylite for now.will take out for more pics.

Looking to trade first for slot cars. Thunderjets,afx,tyco,auto world.

Rules.all usual board rules.first sold in thread.paypal for payment.

Price for thread. $895 shipped.

So here's a true story I could use to incorporate a time travel plot.

Our house was built in the 1890s. A lot of it is unchanged.we renovated the very back room to a large living family space area.during the process,within the walls we found many arcade and hubbley tin trucks,motorcycles and an airplane.we also found many liquior bottles.this was done during prohibition.

So to the point.i would go around to all the local newsstands.purchase 10 AC1s also get some paper bags.put all 10 in paper bags as safe as i could,maybe even make a cardboard backer.now here's where I can go with 2 scenarios. Either sneak into that back room which may or may not even be locked back then and drop my books behind the wall. Or I could also hide them under one of my front porches.yes there are 2 on my house.unchanged since probably the early 1900s.the area is dry and raised under them.

So yeah I have 10 nm copies of AC 1.

Faust! 14&15 are crazy rare and far more $$ than 1. Yeah nobody cares 

Is this supposed to be marvel or dc only?

Maybe deadworld 10 too

Don't think I can put defenders on this list?

How bout the defenders? Anything besides the 10 cover? The whole run has always been cheap. As a young reader in the 80s it was one of my first titles I looked forward to each month.

Never asked here but figure some of you have had to come across slot cars. I'm looking for 60-90s aurora thunderjet,Afx,tyco. Fyi these are the size of hot wheels cars.

I have a large marvel collection with practically all keys(silver to copper and tons of 90s 2000s stopped in 2011)at my disposal,probably not break up my ASM run,unless its a extra but willing to let other titles keys go for the right cars.i have dc as well but pretty marvel centric.i have around 60 short boxes.i'm still a comic collector just trying this out before I sell any.

Pm me pics of what you have.

Oh yeah,all raw only have spidey slabs.

I think this is the perfect opportunity for an ebay alternative to start up. 

Remember seeing the venom 25 yesterday,swore I saw 2 but just got back with 1. Copy is beat maybe a 6.0 the other 2 were champions 13 lenticular and uncanny xmen 14 2nd. May get a spidey or FF pack for a try on a nother lenticular. 

8 hours ago, oldrover said:

Why are the hot girls always possessed by the devil?  (jk in case my wife reads this  )

Vanity

Yes they're short boxes and hold just as many as if they were standing.the only thing is yes you have room at one end.i do stand a few books.

I had a similar issue with my short box storage where traditional standing the comics resulted in the entire box of books started to curl forward on every book.it was from the weight of other short boxes on top.

My solution,instead of pressing 100s of dollar run books,was to change my storage style.i now lay my books down flat.alternating the spine on every issue.i use bags and boards so the flattening result may be different without boards.its been probably 8 years since I switched to this long term storage plan.for the record I do occasionally check the books and all have remained flat and solid.and the books with the curling and waves went away after about a year or so.

Everyone says Hugh's getting too old to play wolverine...i say it would be a perfect time to introduce old man Logan to the MCU. Someone's gonna have to play him.

Anyone interested? $800 shipped? Well below current.. guess thanos is dead and I didn't even see endgame.

$900 shipped?

PERKS4ME $3 off. Not the greatest and I don't know when it ends but it works.

$999.99 shipped