I remember the owner of a candy store had a stack of comics on top of a freezer in the back of his store that I never bothered to look through because I thought they’d be some of the kiddie books that didn’t interest me. To my surprise there were all the Byrne x men run, annuals, some silver age stuff, etc. I asked the store owner what the prices were and he grabs one, looks at the cover price and says ”50 cents”. I say, “each?” and he says, “yeah, or just give me $5 and take them all. My son gives them to me after he reads them and tells me to sell them and they’ve just been piling up there for the last few years”. There were about 60 books in the stack, many of the early marvel squarebound stuff in excellent condition for where they’d been sitting with the occasional store cat laying by them, licking his fur. I thought I struck gold because I could sell them to my friends for $1 a piece, not knowing anything about the over street price guide back then