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jsilverjanet

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Went to a yard sale where the homeowner had 4 long boxes of '80-90s dreks. Took over 40 comics picked out. He had one box full of Image stuff... passed, no thanks!

A good day to go out, see what I got for about one dollar each.

 

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NIce!!!

 

When ever I find nice books in the middle of drek I do take a Youngblood 1 or Bloodshot/Ninjak as tribute to the comic gods who helped me in my quest

 

 

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Nice! Those Valiant Nintendo books are tough to find, yes?

 

Peace,

 

Chip

 

I'm not sure how hard these Nintendo books are to find hm . But I did had read some posts in the forums here, how they say about these books so difficult to find. Since I was there at the yard sale and they were there... I thought I'd take them and list them later tonight. Here are more photos...

 

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And these I found - surprised that was Alex Ross's 1st published work.

 

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Some shell-heads green dudes - #1 and 3 (they are third and fourth printings), gonna give them to a friend who is a big turtle fan.

 

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Went to a yard sale where the homeowner had 4 long boxes of '80-90s dreks. Took over 40 comics picked out. He had one box full of Image stuff... passed, no thanks!

A good day to go out, see what I got for about one dollar each.

 

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NIce!!!

 

When ever I find nice books in the middle of drek I do take a Youngblood 1 or Bloodshot/Ninjak as tribute to the comic gods who helped me in my quest

 

 

I've got to remember that for next time

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Nice! Those Valiant Nintendo books are tough to find, yes?

 

Peace,

 

Chip

 

Some are tougher than others; there's 4 TPBS: "Mario's Special Powers" is one of them, that are the rarest ones out there.

 

The no price variant of this is a pretty tough book too. Almost impossible to find in NM

 

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The problem with those early Valiant books is that, while they are very tough to find and some can garner a decent price, there aren't that many collectors out there.

 

But pretty cool nonetheless.

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When ever I find nice books in the middle of drek I do take a Youngblood 1 or Bloodshot/Ninjak as tribute to the comic gods who helped me in my quest

 

 

Nice touch. I like it.

 

+1 - yeah, nice touch. Maybe I should take few ones of Image dreks and donate to a local children hospital or charity. Or ... offer to the comic gods by sacrifice in burning? (:

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NIce!!!

 

When ever I find nice books in the middle of drek I do take a Youngblood 1 or Bloodshot/Ninjak as tribute to the comic gods who helped me in my quest

 

 

Tell me about it... althought I did find the Wolverine mini series for a buck each once, right among the Image drek. dude thought he had pulled them.

 

I went to my local Books a Million today, and they had 5 long boxes of dollar comics. All 90's stuff, only think I saw that I thought about getting was 1-8 of Irredeemable, but I passed.

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Thrift sale today $5

 

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These people for some reason get all the stuff (cd's, games, dvd's) that are donated and simultaneously rejected by a local Christian "Thrift store/restart your life for volunteer work and get free room and board as long as you go to our church" Hope Gospel Mission.

 

I know these people get some nice games, and sell the crud. Cool people anyhow. Now I know never to bother looking at that store again. unless I want to buy a two dollar spoon or a mossy couch.

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jsilverjanet

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When ever I find nice books in the middle of drek I do take a Youngblood 1 or Bloodshot/Ninjak as tribute to the comic gods who helped me in my quest

 

 

Nice touch. I like it.

 

+1 - yeah, nice touch. Maybe I should take few ones of Image dreks and donate to a local children hospital or charity. Or ... offer to the comic gods by sacrifice in burning? (:

 

Unfortunately I believe chromium covers are flame resistant lol

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Bout to go to a swap meet soon. Hope I can pick up at least a few comics like you lucky gents always do.

 

Be sure to pick one or two derks for the *cough* comic gods ;) . Wishing you all the luck!! (thumbs u

 

Luck Lady, please sent your luck to spideyfan78ct! :foryou:

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Nice! Those Valiant Nintendo books are tough to find, yes?

 

Peace,

 

Chip

 

Some are tougher than others; there's 4 TPBS: "Mario's Special Powers" is one of them, that are the rarest ones out there.

 

The no price variant of this is a pretty tough book too. Almost impossible to find in NM

 

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True, but you can make that argument for all those books. Anyways, the TPB books come up the least often on ebay, and I try to grab as many of them cheap whenever I can.

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Home stretch now with bagging and boarding -

 

The whole thing was supposed to be 300 books to start - 700 so far - looks like 50 more std size - then probably 50 or so of the magazine sized Conan lot. So 800...

 

 

The FF section had some cool older books - not real lookers - but I will take them.

 

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Big lot of hulks including this

 

 

 

 

 

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The last thing he threw in - I have never seen them until now - he had three 1971 Marvel Third Eye blacklight posters

 

 

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Does anyone know about the posters? - I see a couple on ebay, but not a lot of info,

The posters have great color - the were rolled up and in a tube for what looks to be many years. I have not looked in depth - but the surfaces are clean - a couple scratches here and there (you have to be close up to see). Some spotty foxing on the back - but does not appear to bleed through. All complete - no tearing.

 

 

 

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jsilverjanet

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If anyone knows of boardies in the Milwaukee area let me know. There's an estate sale tomorrow with a bunch of good books (JLA 1, FF 48, etc) and figured I would give them a heads up.

 

http://www.estatesales.net/estate-sales/WI/Janesville/53546/699336?highlight=archie

 

FYI - I went to this estate sale. I actually knew about this way before this post, as Rcheli had asked if I wanted to go. I decided based on the books that I would head up there the night before to avoid a long drive very early in the morning.

 

Rcheli couldn't make it so it was just me and the CEO

 

Wife and I both got there, and I started the sign up sheet so I was #1 on the list to go in.

 

Got our numbers at 8:30 like the website mentioned, then went straight for the comics at 9:00am. Grabbed the box, while my wife went to go pay.

 

That's where things went to...

 

 

 

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it seems the person running the estate sale got several calls about the big books and a buyer who wanted to buy "4 books" so she decided it was best to combine all the keys in the pictures and sell them as an auction.

 

nowhere was this mentioned in the ad, and it took me and the other person there buying the comics by complete surprise.

 

I asked if there was a buy it now for the books, she said no but I was welcome to throw an offer. The current offer was $1450.

 

I looked at the books, the JLA 1 had water stains, some of the other books had foxing.

 

The FF48 was a VG at best (lost of spine tear, tearing at the staples)

 

In summation, not worth the $1450 bid price IMHO

 

I looked at the books in the box (that I had taken), split them with the other collector who was there buying books (he was very happy) and left.

 

I was upset that we wasted all that time trying to buy books that were unavailable for purchase but did walk away with some books

 

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W16227

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thx - I figured they (the posters) were the sleepers of the haul - just the age and the surface quality

 

my assumption - they are rolled up now - professional mounting would not hurt the value? - like "the great frame up"

 

someone asked - there were around 40 of the magazine sized "savage sword of Conan" series - in decent shape 6.0 to 8.0 - maybe better if

 

ranged form 80-200 with a run from 100-126 in there.

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