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Robot Man

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Found my first comics at a local flee market.

Only bought 3 issues but happy with them.

1st two were $3.00 a pop the last was more but rare as all get out

 

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AND THE BIG WINNER --- 2nd print baby :acclaim:

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"flee market"? I have fled from a flea market before usually in dismay from not finding anything. Looks like YOU got lucky. Congrats!

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Not a recent find but fun story for this thread. I collected silver age for 10 years when growing up. Than for many years stopped collecting but 4 years ago I started to get back into swap meets and collecting in total. It's 6am, pitch black at swap meet. Guy has 2 long boxes of comics. They are newer comics and he wanted 50 cents a comic. I watched walking dead, great show. I see he has some walking dead comics and figured I would buy and give them to my friend because he was into the series much more than I. After negotiating, I bought something like 50 bookstores $20. I remember them coming out to 40 cents a book.

 

I had the worst bag that books spilled out atleast twice. At one point left the books with a stranger which almost got stolen. Get back and my buddy said, you might want to look up the books. He told me to keep em.I ended up with 19, 28 and close to 40 first prints of early walking dreads. Bad part I put a nick in 19... Yea I regret that because it was near mint besides that. Sold the books to buy other books, now I know a world more once I got back into the world of modern comics, but thought that story was worth sharing... Even if I sound like an

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CJ said:

 

AND THE BIG WINNER --- 2nd print baby :acclaim:

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I have no idea how much that's worth (and please don't tell me because I had my second print bound into a hardcover volume with about 20 other issues), but The Tempest is one of my top five favourite ever comics. Shakespeare writing "By my so potent art. But this rough magic. I here abjure... " after his contract with Morpheus is ended is just magic. When he's good Gaiman is amazing.

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Robot Man

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A fellow Austinite!

 

Haha- yep! Austin is gorgeous, though tougher for me to find deals out here in my opinion than so cal (where i lived before)

 

It ain't that easy here anymore either. Funny that I have never found any WD books " in the wild" here either. Great story.

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