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littledoom

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  1. On 11/3/2023 at 6:34 AM, Sobender said:

    So thanks to my girlfriend I stumbled upon what would be most comic collectors dream find at an estate sale the weekend before Halloween.  (She found the listing and noticed comic books, so she gets major points for that!) I enjoy the whole story but I’ll sum it up for everyone. 
     There was a line to look at the comic books and they were only allowing one person at a time to look at the books, I was the 7-10th person in line and watched as every book I showed up for disappeared, it felt like torture! Lol 

    I noticed everyone passing on a stack of coverless books labeled “poor shape” for $10, none of them looked to see what was in that pile. So when it was my turn I just bought the pile cause there could be good reader copies in there, and boy was I right!

    Didn't look at the stack of books until I got home and was blown away with what I found, it took me a good hour or two of verifying to confirm my find..

    Here is what I found for $10:                     Amazing Spider-Man #1 Coverless.          
    Tales of Suspense #39 Coverless.                             Tales of Suspense #40 Coverless & missing 1st page fold.                                   Strange Tales #111 Coverless.               Fantastic Four #11 Detached cover.      
    Fantastic Four #12 Detached cover, missing back cover                                Fantastic Four #13 Coverless 😳🤯

    So by luck I found the best books at the estate sale by a long shot! 

    Here are some pictures of what I got, all coverless, FF, and a couple other books were in that $10 “poor shape” stack, the rest were $5 each.. IMG_4160.thumb.jpeg.074fbbc54b9ca29e424efffd3509d0d8.jpegIMG_4266.thumb.jpeg.7c187db231ec7c09323e96d10401fd74.jpeg72013593351__26F5859B-9FE6-4963-B529-871DA26DDFAC.thumb.jpeg.d46f7861481e1cdbb12440fee6351b4c.jpegIMG_4167.thumb.jpeg.563bd047f583ca81ec25de1309ef8cec.jpegIMG_4166.thumb.jpeg.20325792c3a09ac06549e8aa878848e5.jpegIMG_4165.thumb.jpeg.56a890c045afd3b09340c73af2156a37.jpegIMG_4168.thumb.jpeg.4889bacb8023ee2151ae436ac93bd9f7.jpeg254B8599-67EC-4C20-8C27-5669FFC1B450.thumb.jpeg.baa51dc1afffe176d5c2e217bb4f0848.jpeg72014454842__B7DAA04F-6711-42EE-BAC9-6979ADAE9997.thumb.jpeg.6189b9121ff8f75cf1c706652e6ca7c3.jpeg

    Congratulations on a dream find score! The best I've seen in years by a long stretch! I once found a Daredevil #1 coverless for $5 that everyone passed at an estate sale a handful of years ago. It was on top of a coverless pile of comics. Makes me wonder what else those other comic buyers found at your estate sale.

  2. On 10/29/2023 at 6:10 PM, Michael Browning said:

    Here’s one that I have never found in the wild and probably never will. Chuck #2 Convention Exclusive. After many years of searching everywhere, I bought my copy on eBay and paid a huge price for it - almost as much as I did for the original art. The only copy I’d ever seen before the one I bought recently was one on Amazon for $1,000 and I sure wasn’t paying that.

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    Hey I'm so glad you posted about this. You bought my copy. Thanks for you purchase. I'm glad I sold it to you. Key Collector shortly thereafter updated this sale to their site. I had no idea about a $1,000 copy on Amazon. It's one of those rarities where it's worth what someone is willing to pay for it. I got it earlier this year around June from a guy who got it for free at SDCC 2008. I thought I would never see him again but he messaged me this weekend and sure enough I found another copy (he kept one for himself). The copy I got on Saturday however is not as nice as the one you bought as it has a top corner bend crease.