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Unca Scrooge

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  1. Batman Annual 1 VF+ $4.25 Captain America 275 VG $1.25 or free with purchase of any four other Marvel comics Captain America 275 NM-/NM $5. Deadpool COrps 1 VF $3.50 Firestorm 24 Newsstand VF- $6 Harley Quinn: Our Worlds at War 1 VF $7 Hawkeye vs Deadpool 0 NM+ $8.50 JSA Secret Files and Origins 1 NM $5 Magnus 5/Rai 1 VF+ $2 Magnus 5/Rai 1 NM $4 or both (no cards or inserts) for $5 Rise of Apocalypse 1 VF-/VF $2 or free with purchase of any 4 indie comics New Teen Titans 16 NM-/NM $ 3.50 each (2 available) or both for $6 Xmen 92 #1 SDCC PX Exclusive NM $3
  2. And for those interested, here’s the damage. So thankful it was all exterior and didn’t go into the basement where all my books are stored.
  3. I finally got home tonight from holiday travel and had a chance to open my gift from @toro. He knocked it out of the park and pretty much covered my entire wish list! Duck books? Check. Dave Stevens and Adam Hughes? Done. And a Panther POP! to top it all off. Ernie, you were incredibly generous and made coming home to a busted exterior water pipe much more cheery than it could have been. Thankfully we didn’t have any damage inside the house and I’ll have some great reading when the contractor is fixing everything tomorrow!
  4. Sorry Barth, I was actually juggling the Batman and the GA/SA lot you chose, but the chance to own something from Rosa’s collection swayed me that way.
  5. I’ll take CAMPER49’s Batman #337 CGC 9.6 Don Rosa Collection. Figured that would fit with my board name.
  6. Left town for the holidays today and won’t be back until the 2nd. Hadn’t got a package yet, but my neighbors will grab it for me whenever it shows up. Figured I’d throw that out so whoever had me doesnt worry when I don’t show up in the reveal thread right away.
  7. Perry recently pressed some books for me and did an amazing job. His most impressive feat was the work he did on my wavy, 9.0-ish Nyx #3. I just submitted it this past weekend for on-site grading at Baltimore and it came back a 9.6. Perry was great to work with and I'd highly recommend his services to anyone interested in getting some nice grade bumps for their books.
  8. Road trip to WV this weekend. Was able to find an antique store each time we had to pull off the freeway for the wife to feed our two month old. No major finds but got some cool books for cheap.
  9. I got my Vertigo Mystery Box from Jacey the other day but have been sick so just got around to taking pics. Jacey was super generous and stuffed the box full of stuff. Lots of good reading ahead!
  10. Purchases from the last few weeks, all either from Craigslist or Baltimore. The page is Reilly Brown from Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet #1.
  11. Please tell me you are planning on selling some Turtles….. I was thinking the same thing. Still have fond memories of playing with my Leonardo figure and the Turtle Van
  12. Too funny, I was jumping in this thread to mention The Great Escape myself! I started buying comics off the rack at a convenience store at the end of the street when I was a kid. In time my best friend told me about a store that JUST sold comics. Eventually his folks took us both there and my mind was blown. The posters on the walls, the smell of the newsprint, and the bins full of 25, 35 and 50 cent books! I was in heaven. After that I was able to talk my folks into taking me out there every other month or so. This was back when I could recycle aluminum cans and gather my meager allowance, head into the store with $5-$10, and walk out with armloads of stuff. I eventually ended up working there when I got out of high school, when I was about 19. A lot of fond memories of that brief year and a half as well. But when I go in there now, as a nearly 40-year old man, I still see the place through the eyes of 10-year-old me. Awesome! Love that place! Do you all remember the commercials they used to run on the local Louisville channels? Pretty sure it was Great Escape but whatever store it was the commercials showed off new stuff that they had got in and always had some guy dressed up in costume. Also, if memory serves me right there was another store in Frankfort which I think might have been another Great Escape. Truth be told though, I was a child of the 90's and I basically associated any comic store in the area with Great Escape since it's the only name I knew. Hmm, when I was there I know they used to run late-night ads that usually involved a flying saucer (like, very primitive CG animation) that would visit the store or something like that. I don't remember any costumes, though it's certainly possible. I DO remember that local chain Book and Music Exchange used to do lots of ads with people in weird wigs and costumes and such. Book and Music Exchange, that was it. They had some crazy commercials. Going along with the first ever comic stories I still remember mine vividly. Family went on a ski trip to Paoli Peaks in Indiana and my parents bought me the red foil version of X-Factor #100 from the grocery store in the middle of Paoli. Long story short that issue (death of Multiple Man) was way over my head as a 6-7 year old. However, I find myself buying it out of .50 cent bins due to nostalgia a lot.
  13. Too funny, I was jumping in this thread to mention The Great Escape myself! I started buying comics off the rack at a convenience store at the end of the street when I was a kid. In time my best friend told me about a store that JUST sold comics. Eventually his folks took us both there and my mind was blown. The posters on the walls, the smell of the newsprint, and the bins full of 25, 35 and 50 cent books! I was in heaven. After that I was able to talk my folks into taking me out there every other month or so. This was back when I could recycle aluminum cans and gather my meager allowance, head into the store with $5-$10, and walk out with armloads of stuff. I eventually ended up working there when I got out of high school, when I was about 19. A lot of fond memories of that brief year and a half as well. But when I go in there now, as a nearly 40-year old man, I still see the place through the eyes of 10-year-old me. Awesome! Love that place! Do you all remember the commercials they used to run on the local Louisville channels? Pretty sure it was Great Escape but whatever store it was the commercials showed off new stuff that they had got in and always had some guy dressed up in costume. Also, if memory serves me right there was another store in Frankfort which I think might have been another Great Escape. Truth be told though, I was a child of the 90's and I basically associated any comic store in the area with Great Escape since it's the only name I knew.