I frequent a huge flea-market in Cedar Lake on Sunday's. Last Sunday I was talking to a dealer who had some Sci-Fi mags on his table. He asked me " Are you interested in comics". Yeah what do you have. He took me around to the back where there were some storage sheds. Opened up the shed and Whamo. It looked like Mason Jar boxes packed with books up to the ceiling. Lots of them. I told him " this is going to take some time to go through." No problem he said, take your time. Says he bought them from a strorage locker aution.
Now this property is run by a couple who have a house in the front. It just so happened the guy I was talking to was the owner. So its 90 degrees out as I start to look through box after box. I'm sweating ing bullets and he's watching me asking me all kinds of questions.
Each box had about fifty books. All unbagged. All with badly torn covers, pieces missing, chunks out. They were mostly 12 and 15 centers with a few 10 centers here and there. Just terrible shape. I got down to the bottom box on one row and found a few decent Astonish and Suspense that were salvagable. I started making a small pile and he continued to talk. O.K, I have been in there sweating for over and hour looking through box after box when his wife zoooms up in a golf cart. She runs the flea market every weekend and drives this cart around to make sure everythings in order.
She looks like Jabba the Hut with long red hair and red lipstick bouncing around in the golf cart. Anyway, she pulls up and starts chewing this guys azz out nine ways to Sunday. " You gonna stay back here all day". W-T-F is going on. Now I'm trying to stay out of it.
" He has to buy everything or nothing, no cherry picking". I told her the guy said they were his books. He then started stuttering saying " Well everything thats mine is hers to. I told him if you wanted to sell the whole shot why didnt you just say something instead of me wasting my ing morning looking through ripped up krap. She slammed the shed door shut and off she went. I'm lucky I made it out alive.
DRX