Unca Scrooge

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

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. 

5 minutes ago, Barth said:

I was ready to take the Batman 337 and then it was selected right before my pick!

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. 

I’ll take CAMPER49’s Batman #337 CGC 9.6 Don Rosa Collection. Figured that would fit with my board name. 

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. 

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.

X-Men 51 

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. 

I'm in.

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!

Purchases from the last few weeks, all either from Craigslist or Baltimore. The page is Reilly Brown from Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet #1.

It's been a super dry 2015 for me. Complete opposite of 2014.

 

Today, the literal and figurative weather was a bit moister.

 

Anyone know how to tell if the Turtles are soft head when they are MOC?

All MOC and unpunched from 1988.

 

 

 

 

 

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

I grew up in Southern Indiana.

The closest comic store was in Louisville, KY.

 

It is still there and is called The Great Escape.

 

Its dark, smells like old paper, and is basically heaven to a 10 year old boy who loves comics.

 

It was like I was transported into a different world when I walked through those doors.

Man, I loved it. It was special every time my parents would take me. Priceless memories, for sure.

 

I got some great raw books there back in the day. Way before I cared about numbers like 9.8. All I knew is that the copy of ASM #300, or NM #87, was a little slice of happiness, and I couldn't have been more excited, and proud, to add them to my collection.

 

They had/have a huge wall of new weeklies, and a lot of back issues.

The box I always loved to look through was the $20.00 and up short boxes. Oh, to be able to own all of those back then, haha!

 

They also had a wall behind the counter of the more expensive issues.

 

I also scored a Captain America Annual #8 poster (vs Wolverine. And I still own it too!), and it was the coolest thing ever to me back then.

 

Thanks for this thread. It brought back some very happy memories...

 

 

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.

I grew up in Southern Indiana.

The closest comic store was in Louisville, KY.

 

It is still there and is called The Great Escape.

 

Its dark, smells like old paper, and is basically heaven to a 10 year old boy who loves comics.

 

It was like I was transported into a different world when I walked through those doors.

Man, I loved it. It was special every time my parents would take me. Priceless memories, for sure.

 

I got some great raw books there back in the day. Way before I cared about numbers like 9.8. All I knew is that the copy of ASM #300, or NM #87, was a little slice of happiness, and I couldn't have been more excited, and proud, to add them to my collection.

 

They had/have a huge wall of new weeklies, and a lot of back issues.

The box I always loved to look through was the $20.00 and up short boxes. Oh, to be able to own all of those back then, haha!

 

They also had a wall behind the counter of the more expensive issues.

 

I also scored a Captain America Annual #8 poster (vs Wolverine. And I still own it too!), and it was the coolest thing ever to me back then.

 

Thanks for this thread. It brought back some very happy memories...

 

 

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.

Went to a book donation center that benefits the local library today. Digging through the long boxes of moderns and 90s drek paid off. Walked away with this for 50 cents:

 

 

Amazing find. You gotta wonder how in the world a book like this ends up in a 50c bin

 

Not your average high print run drek.

I'm 99% sure no one at this place even looks through the comics when they come in and I doubt they'd know what to look for regardless. All of the longboxes there are on a low shelf and you have to crouch down to look through them. I stop by once every six months or so and they usually have about 5-6 boxes that don't seem to change much.

Went to a book donation center that benefits the local library today. Digging through the long boxes of moderns and 90s drek paid off. Walked away with this for 50 cents:

 

 

Cool find. Did you buy anything else? Since it was for charity, and all?

Yeah, picked up a good bit more but nothing else of note. A bunch of Christopher Priest's Black Panther run and about 10 children's books that the wife got for her friend's baby shower.

Went to a book donation center that benefits the local library today. Digging through the long boxes of moderns and 90s drek paid off. Walked away with this for 50 cents:

I, too, just got my RAK from Shadow Images!

 

Awesome! Thanks!

 

X-Factor 100. That was the first comic I ever remember getting. I demanded my parents buy me the crimson chromium cover while on a family ski trip.

I got stuck in the traffic jam on 95 up from DC and got there at 2:15. On-site was closed which sucked given that that's what I went to the show for. Oh well, got some books signed and had a good time anyway. I gotta say though, I totally agree on limiting the submissions to on-site. When I take 6 books to get done and they can't handle it due to people submitting whole long boxes it's a bit frustrating.

If anyone knows of boardies in the Milwaukee area let me know. There's an estate sale tomorrow with a bunch of good books (JLA 1, FF 48, etc) and figured I would give them a heads up.

 

http://www.estatesales.net/estate-sales/WI/Janesville/53546/699336?highlight=archie

 

FYI - I went to this estate sale. I actually knew about this way before this post, as Rcheli had asked if I wanted to go. I decided based on the books that I would head up there the night before to avoid a long drive very early in the morning.

 

Rcheli couldn't make it so it was just me and the CEO

 

Wife and I both got there, and I started the sign up sheet so I was #1 on the list to go in.

 

Got our numbers at 8:30 like the website mentioned, then went straight for the comics at 9:00am. Grabbed the box, while my wife went to go pay.

 

That's where things went to...

 

 

 

 

it seems the person running the estate sale got several calls about the big books and a buyer who wanted to buy "4 books" so she decided it was best to combine all the keys in the pictures and sell them as an auction.

 

nowhere was this mentioned in the ad, and it took me and the other person there buying the comics by complete surprise.

 

I asked if there was a buy it now for the books, she said no but I was welcome to throw an offer. The current offer was $1450.

 

I looked at the books, the JLA 1 had water stains, some of the other books had foxing.

 

The FF48 was a VG at best (lost of spine tear, tearing at the staples)

 

In summation, not worth the $1450 bid price IMHO

 

I looked at the books in the box (that I had taken), split them with the other collector who was there buying books (he was very happy) and left.

 

I was upset that we wasted all that time trying to buy books that were unavailable for purchase but did walk away with some books

 

 

 

 

 

I hate it when that kinda happens. I went to a yard sale two weeks ago where a guy was selling his collection and had posted the list of what he had beforehand. When I got there a lot of stuff from the list was missing. I asked and he told me two guys had emailed the night before and demanded he pull aside a chunk of the list and reserve it for them. He ending up selling an Ulitmate Spider-Man 1, the whole 2000s Harley Quinn series, and a load of Deadpools all for .50 cents a book. The seller and his wife were super nice and said the emailers were really aggressive and not knowing what to do they just held the books for them.

If anyone knows of boardies in the Milwaukee area let me know. There's an estate sale tomorrow with a bunch of good books (JLA 1, FF 48, etc) and figured I would give them a heads up.

RAK (3 options for 3 takers)

 

I took a RAK from eborres last week and was finally able to get my pictures together for my offer. Up for anyone to take are 3 different prints from a Bettie Page art portfolio I picked up and split up between friends. Choose one print and I'll also throw in one of the posters from the recent Guardians preview screenings.

 

Option A - Ron Randall print (claimed by techvoodoo)

 

Option B - Aaron Lopresti print (claimed by neopacket)

 

Option C - Greg Laws print

 

Guardians poster:

Option C still available. Anyone's welcome to it, whether you've claimed 10 RAKs or none.

After seeing that Duke sketch earlier, I wanna see a Kav sketch of a mean looking Clint Eastwood and John Wayne swipe of Green Lantern 52

 

That sounds interesting.....or maybe Clint telling Hulk GET OFF MY LAWN

 

Haha, the prints aren't moving so maybe I should send them to Kav and have him add his derrière improvements to Bettie

 

Really? i would have thought Option B would have been long gone, its a great piece.

 

It could be yours

 

Well Heck, if no one else wants it Option B. Really can't believe it's still here.

It's all yours.

After seeing that Duke sketch earlier, I wanna see a Kav sketch of a mean looking Clint Eastwood and John Wayne swipe of Green Lantern 52

 

That sounds interesting.....or maybe Clint telling Hulk GET OFF MY LAWN

 

Haha, the prints aren't moving so maybe I should send them to Kav and have him add his derrière improvements to Bettie

 

Really? i would have thought Option B would have been long gone, its a great piece.

It could be yours