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Thanks for the killer books!

Graded accurately and shipped quickly and secured.

Very happy!!

Ordered a couple of books and they showed up quickly and well packaged.

Couldn't ask for much better!

Thanks!

Just got my books from Sam today. Packaged like a champ!

Great transaction and Sam couldn't have been nicer in helping this newbie with buying books from the forum.

Thanks again!

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Picked these up on a recent business trip to Alabama at a place called 2nd and Charles (??). Awesome store. Basically a nostalgia nut's fantasy land...old comics, video games, records, legos, books, etc.

 

I just found out one of these stores popped up in my area and found some good things for a buck a piece...

Early Deadpool appearances in Nomad and Silver Sable

Last issue of Warlock & The Infinity Watch

Uncanny X-Men Annual #14

Definitely worth checking out if you have one in the area.

Per Comicbookrealm.com, the $4.95 cover is 1st print US and the $5.95 cover is 1st print Canadian. 1st Prints also have no ISBN or UPC code. All the later prints show both the US and CA prices on the cover, plus have an ISBN number on the back cover.

Thanks for the info!

All signs point to the copy that I picked up for $5 last year in gorgeous condition is a first print!! Yea for me!!

If buying a New Mutants Graphic Novel, check the indicia inside for which printing it is.

I think they did like 7 printings or something.

So I can assume if there's no mention of what printing it is, than it would be a first printing?

Yeah I stopped going to yard sales . Too much gas and mileage for 90's drek IF I find anything.

I hear you.

The best thing I've ever found at a yard sale was a SPJO #153 with mustaches and beards for everyone!

My mom also found an Avengers #143 with every conceivable coupon or mail order subscription form cut out of it.

I've definitely had better luck with estate sales than garage sales.

I've been building a Superman Silver Age collection for the last couple of years, and I've noticed that I'm getting a lot more competition recently when a nice string of VF-ish 12 cent books go up on eBay.

Thankfully, most of the keys I already have, so now it's just filling in the in-between issues. Previously, I could snag a nice run of 7.0-8.0 books for VG guide pricing, now it looks like they're creeping up into the fine pricing range.

It's an anecdotal tale, with a sample size of one, but that's been my experience over the last 6-8 months or so.

My wife was at an art show over the weekend, and there was a couple of vendors at an adjacent show that had some comic books for sale.

I found this for $5.

It's beat to heck, but complete with the cover still attached. I've never had the chance to own a copy of this book yet, so I snatched it up. It now proudly has a place in my collection right next to my equally beat to heck, (and equally loved) copy of Avengers #8, with the first appearance of the greatest Avengers villain of all time...Kang!

I have always liked those as well, do you have one of these?

 

I have a copy, but not as in as nice a condition as yours. Sharp copy!

When I first decided to focus my rambling collection hoard, the Superman Flash races were the first set I tried to complete.

My sister at the time worked for a framing company and did a killer job setting these up for display!

I love the stories that these covers tell in a linear fashion with the starting line with Superman #199, all the way to the finish line with World's Finest #199.

New to the boards, so this estate sale find was from right around the holidays.

It was for a resale shop that the original owner had passed away, and the heirs were getting rid of his inventory with an estate sale. I guess his shop started out as a camera shop, but morphed into anything he wanted to sell over the years, which included comics. All in all, over three floors of fun items to look through.

I could see from the pics ahead of time that there were some Famous First Editions in the mix, which I didn't have any of. So that's what I headed out for. Was 43rd in line, and saw a couple of other "comic book guys" in line ahead of me, so was sure that it was going to be slim pickings by the time I got in.

Boy was I wrong...

I did manage to get a complete collection of Famous First Editions in VF/NM to NM condition, as there was a ton of these. Also picked up some other Treasury sized books included the Supes/Spider-Man and Howard the Duck, although their condition was Fine at best. Missed the Superman/Muhammad Ali book by seconds as it was snatched from the table just as I got there.

Also got three copies of Lois Lane #106 (although only one was in decent shape, maybe 6.5), a couple of early Punishers mags (Preview #2 and Super Action #1), a few Batman giant-sized from the late 60's, and a slew of Lois Lane reader copies to fill in holes.

That there, I would have been happy with, but in searching through the 3rd floor after I had been there from over 2 hours I found an untouched box of comics. What was inside made my year!!

I'm a Superman collector, and had been looking to complete my run of Adventure Comics featuring Supergirl. Right there on top was issue #381...and behind it was 382, 383, 384, etc.. I couldn't believe my luck when there was every issue of the Supergirl run (#381-424). They weren't stored in bags and backers, so condition ranged from F to VF, but what a find!!

And to make it even better, there was also complete runs of the Black Orchid and Spectre issues that followed.

I managed to find an empty longbox and had it filled with these comics, plus a Superman marionette puppet and blow up punching bag in their original boxes. When I went to check out, the guy looked at my box and said "how about a $100?"

Sounded good to me!!