kaculler

Good luck. Copies are bound to turn up sooner or later. Hopefully.

I found that copy in a $3 bin at a comic shop in Pittsburgh a few years ago. It's the only one that I've seen. A friend of mine uploaded the pic to comics.org. I'd like to upgrade it, but who knows if I'll ever find another. Maybe there will be a 'warehouse find' someday and copies will flood ebay. I still need #10,13,14,26,29,40 to complete the set.

This one arrived in the mail today. The only higher number on my list for Pep is #62. My second highest on the want list is now #53.

Four Color #98 just arrived today. 157 more issues to go.

These just arrived

My first comic shop was Classic Movie and Comic Center in Farmington, MI back in 1977. The main floor was filled with movie posters, movie stills and other memorabilia. If you went down a twisting staircase (decorated with artwork by Terry Austin), you came to the comic section. They had tons of comics along with paperbacks and sports cards. They used to call me and my brother whenever they got a collection of Richie Rich comics and we would go up there to try and fill some gaps in our collection. They moved to Livonia, MI in 1981 which was nice because it was a lot closer to my house. I started working there in 1986 and kept working there throughout high school, college and after I started teaching full time, though it was mainly just Saturdays at that point. The store closed in 2005, but I have a lot of good memories from the store.

It was a decent enough convention and parking isn't bad, especially on Sunday when street parking is free, It was only so-so for me, though. I was mostly looking for 1940s-60s Harveys and Dells plus some 1960s/70s Gold Key books. I also picked up a few 1950s/60s DC books. Overall, I came home with around 50 comics. Baltimore was a better show for me this year and I thought was a better show than Heroes Con overall. I bought around 80 comics there. Each of these kind of pale in comparison to my typical Wizard World Chicago show where I tend to buy 200-300 comics. Wizard World Chicago gets a bad rap at times, but it has been good for finding comics, though it has been slipping a bit the last couple of years. My want list has been dwindling in recent years due to all of my purchases so that probably contributed to the smaller amount of books purchased at Heroes and Baltimore. I skipped Wizard World Chicago this year for the first time in 20 years because of my visits to Heroes, Baltimore and C2E2. C2E2 is not worth a trip if you are looking for older comics, unless maybe if you are looking for some high priced wall books. There wasn't much of a dealer section there.

My oldest would be Superman #8, which just arrived yesterday and replacing Superman #12 as my oldest slabbed book. Pep #24 comes in just behind these two.

I went to Heroes Con back in June and called a few of the comic shops, but there wasn't much to be found. I think that they keep their show stock separate from their store stock. Maybe if you contact some of them in advance with specific books you're looking for you might have some luck, but just stopping in for a visit while you're down there won't be very fruitful, I suspect.

I finished off the Four Color Little Lulu issues.

This just arrived

Here a few 10 centers that don't show up too often. I doubt if there are many who collect the title. Reddy Goose #2, 6 and 10

New arrivals

Two recent purchases

A few more.

Some of my purchases in Baltimore over the weekend.

I picked up Casper #19 in Baltimore over the weekend so I have 6 issues left on my want list to finish the series.

I finished off my Green Lantern run in Baltimore over the weekend.

This was at Bill's booth. He's a pretty nice guy and usually has some interesting things. He had a couple of boxes of European Disney comics, Cheerios premiums and other giveaways plus lots of regular comics from all ages. I see him at Detroit shows and at other places pretty regularly.

There are definitely a lot of comic books there. I spent the last two days buying a fair number of comics - Green Lantern #1 to finish that set, golden age and silver age Harveys, Dells and other DCs as well. I've had better luck at Wizard World Chicago most years in terms of finding comics I need and getting good deals, but this is a good show.

New arrivals

This one arrived today.

Recent arrivals

Thanks. Now I just need to find a nice Action 252 at a decent price. I need 15 issues to have Action complete back to #200 and 252 is the highest number on that list (and obviously the most expensive).