westerberg14

slow summer for garage sales - but at least found these at two for $1 price on Friday.

On 8/10/2017 at 9:09 AM, Montezuma said:

A lot of Lev Gleason

 

What does a lone shoe on a highway mean?  

Found this at a garage sale for $1 today.  

31 minutes ago, spiderman12 said:

update – so I spoke with him for a little bit he's basically selling off most of his Comics and does not want to use eBay because of bad past experiences and shipping. All the books were complete and ranged in grade from good to fine. We settled on a price of $800. He said he is listing more books next week. 

Nice!  Seems like a fair deal for both of you.  Maybe he'll let you take a look at the future books he's selling before he lists them on craigslist?

3 hours ago, FineCollector said:

In the "I didn't think I wanted one until it appeared under my nose" category... 

what's the story for finding this book?  That would be odd to run into at the random garage sale...

1 hour ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Sweet  Glad that it worked out !!

I had a thing like that went to the LCS last weekend and 2 minutes on my way I passed a garage sale, I stopped but they said no comics, nice to hear miracles like this DO happen  

luck of the draw - takes a lot of misses until you finally get a hit!

Went to a garage sale at the 9am opening time they advertised.  Only the wife was there, wasn't sure where her husband's five boxes of comics were - but he'd be there at 1pm if i wanted to come back.  I considered not coming back - but it was only 20 minutes away and she was having a beer at 9am - so i figured it could be interesting.  Got back to find it was only three short boxes of books for $1 each.  I was so excited when I saw the Nyx run, I forgot to flip back for the Deadpool/Cable #1.  Overall - was well worth the return trip! 

I use comicspriceguide.com as a starting point for quick search of books by issue or title.  Gives a good reference that is easily searchable from your phone once you set up the free account.  If i'm looking to buy or sell something specific then i would use ebay or other sites referenced to get a better feel for current market.

9 hours ago, Bighaley21 said:

Three long boxes of silver and golden age books bought from a local guy.. I'll let this one picture speak for itself..

 

hopefully you'll share more of the story, but that picture is great!

On 4/14/2017 at 10:30 AM, punksdropdirtysrh said:

Less than a week! I've been fiddling with the C2e2 app and it's pretty neat. Like how easy it is to make a personal schedule of panels and signings. I need all the help I can get to keep my head in the game.

Im planning on cosplaying (and spending $100's on books too!) but I'm worried the main piece I ordered from etsy won't arrive by Friday. It shipped today out of Italy. Anyone think it's possible for it to make it to Iowa in a week? 

update on the shipment?  sucks to be waiting for something right before a show...

I found this at an estate sale a month or so ago.  Not in the greatest shape, but glad to be in the club!

Sharing this for anyone in the area - looks like some great original art available at this sale.  Wonder what the story behind the sale is - bio mentions 50 year collection that is being sold.  Seems like an online house would return more to the original owner.  Might be opportunity for someone from the board to pick up some great stuff!  i did a search on board for the location listed (Wantagh) and didn't see anything, so hopefully this isn't already part of another thread.

https://www.estatesales.net/NY/Wantagh/11793/1469607?highlight=Comic+comic

Finale was fun - could have been a lot worse, but about what we've come to expect from this show at this point.  Here's some of my observations, assuming i used the spoiler function correctly...

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  • what was with the lame special effects on the roof fall?  That's such an iconic moment from the book, but on the show it's just a flutter of activity behind a group of trees with a scream?  
  • Not that this show is known for it's great writing - but Negan actually said "That widow is alive, guns a-blazing!" when he saw Maggie.  that's too ridiculous even for this show.  
  • The Negan confrontation with Rick and Carl was solid - but Negan threatened to take both of Rick's hands?  was he going to kill Carl and then cut off Rick's hands, so he could be a figurehead leader, but not actually do anything?  The references to rick losing a hand were fun at first, but i think it's time to move on from that.
  • What was the deal the garbage people worked out?  they wanted 12 of something - people, which are valuable?  The turn by the group was great, but the deal wasn't clear.
  • When the shooting starts, Carl and Daryl both take their first shots at people's legs/feet.  This All Out War might be more like and A-Team episode.  Since it seems like no character who's actually spoken on the show died in the fire fight, it's a war of red shirts so far.
  • Sasha's whole flashback / memory sequence is only of Abraham?  She was with him for a month or two as a couple, but not a single thought of Tyreese - her brother she was very close with and who spent more time with her in the zombie apocalypse.
  • the moving truck in the comic Busta Move, but on the show it was Trusta Move?  

   

   

Had good luck at an estate sale this week.  Found about a dozen Walking Dead books that I need, including 1st Ezekiel.  A bunch of Y the Last Man, which i don't ever seem to find.  Was happy to get X-men 21 (although in low grade condition) for only $15, and averaged less than $2 a book on everything else.  This sale advertised having over 25,000 books including ASM 129 and other key books.  The sale started at 4pm on Thursday.  I got there at 1pm and was the 31st name on the list to enter the sale.  The first names were there at 10pm the night before!  Some books were over priced, while others seemed to slip through with low prices.  I didn't hear what the big books went for, but since none of them survived until I got in - the price must have been right for someone.

On 3/15/2017 at 2:06 PM, westerberg14 said:

thanks @ADAMANTIUM - i'm sure i'll get smoked by 40 points this round

make that 57 pts 

2 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Congratulations @westerberg14 Hope you win  

thanks @ADAMANTIUM - i'm sure i'll get smoked by 40 points this round

i had replied to the message thread from seeding round without a response, and tried to check back in yesterday but figured you were swamped with submissions.  Was busy since midday yesterday and just checked back in this morning to see i have a zero score - would have advanced with 60+ if i did the math right

On 3/4/2017 at 9:58 AM, telerites said:

And presenting from DC, the original family-friendly comic publisher, The Codpiece

 

 

thanks for this - adding Doom Patrol 70 to my list of books to keep an eye out for.

On 2/21/2017 at 0:00 PM, HarrisonJohn said:

Great choice - i was surprised it took until the 6th page to find Xmen 251.  This has always been one of my favorite covers - maybe all those Catholic masses i sat through as a kid with nothing to look at but the big crucifix had something to do with it.

6 hours ago, marmat said:

I was very surprised to find this. I was also very happy to pay the $2 price tag 

 

Awesome!  what type of uninformed seller did you find this with?

16 hours ago, ThatPovGuy said:

It doesn't sound like Marvel to me...kind of the opposite. Marvel is dealing with the aftermath of villain consequences. POWERLESS (the DC one) is dealing with preventing villain consequences. And also with keeping Bruce Wayne's cousin (Alan Tudyk as Van Wayne) in line.

 

I am finding it pretty danged amusing. Fluffy? Yes. But danged amusing!

I'm liking this show so far.  Not as good as The Office or some other workplace settings sitcoms, but add in the proximity to superhero stuff, and that's enough for me.  My wife enjoys it too - so that's a plus.  The intro with the comic book covers is worth a look for anyone who's a comic fan.  

1 hour ago, jsilverjanet said:

Is the detective 359 complete?

I didn't want to open the bag at the sale to check - so I still need to do that when i get home.  Hopefully there are no pages missing.  The cover seemed to be attached with no splits on the spine from what I could see.

15 hours ago, FineCollector said:

Pray tell, if Nova 1 was stickered at $4, and Detective 359 was $35, what did they have that was so horribly overpriced?

The one that stood out to me was an Adventure Comics 425` for $80 - not sure where they got that price from.  All of the Iron Man issues they had between 50-100 were $25 or more, despite being mid-grade condition at best.  Most of the pricing seemed to be based on mint prices from an old Overstreet guide, but didn't take into consideration the condition of the book.  Lots of early 90s Image / Lady Death type stuff at over $20 a book as well.  Gotta love flipping through a bunch of Brigade and Prophet books!

Lucked out to find these at an estate sale today.  Most of the books were well overpriced, but got these four for $40 total.  I wasn't going to push the price any more, figured that was enough negotiation.  They had a run of early Iron Man that skipped from 54 to 60 - was really hoping to for 55 to show up somewhere, but I'm not complaining.  

Car part swap meet? How did you bring home comics from that? Those look nice!