Anyone remember these?

[Tempus Fugit]

When I was a kid in the early to mid 70's we really did not have a lot of LCS's. I got all my comics at five and dimes, and drug stores.

 

However, I recall that most book stores had a prepackaged box with "Comics for Collectors" printed all over it in bright colors. All were premarked with prices and in 1 mil (I think) poly bags.

 

I recall that most were .15 covers (overstocks?). I also remember they were loaded with Silver Surfers for $3.00 ea. which at the the time was a pretty crazy price.

 

I also remember that no matter which book store you were in the contents were always similar. Anyone elese remember these, or some of the other common books found within?

[Silvers24]

during the 90's my mom would go to aldi's and such (can't spell the food store) and she'd find comics packaged in like idk 5 or so at a time for cheap and she'd buy me them.

 

Altho this was at a time when i'd look at them, but didn't care for them.

 

[dupont2005]

Never saw those, but my grandma did get me "comic collector kits" back in the 80's. One came with a book on how to collect, a price guide, some sort of goofy comic boxes with Marvel characters all over them and like 30 current comics. I wish I remembered which comics I got in that pack. I'm sure I still have them but they are in the boxes somewhere. Probably super rare reprints or something. She also got me comic packs from Sam's Club or something. They were shrink-wrapped packs of like 40 Marvels. Mostly x-titles if I remember correctly. I know it's where I was intrroduced to New Mutants. These were all currents though. At that time I think 15 cent covers were still ithe quarter bins.

[joe_collector]

Never saw those, but my grandma did get me "comic collector kits" back in the 80's. One came with a book on how to collect, a price guide, some sort of goofy comic boxes with Marvel characters all over them and like 30 current comics. I wish I remembered which comics I got in that pack. I'm sure I still have them but they are in the boxes somewhere.

 

I remember getting one of those as a gift around 1981 or so and it was a real blast - I still have the mini-guide and had used the comic box to store some old crepe up until a few years ago.

 

I can remember some of the books I got, mostly DC Brave & Bold or DC Comics Presents, but they were all high-grade and I still have them somewhere. I don't remember getting a single top-tier book in the entire pack though and it was about 90% DC.

[shadroch]

Never saw those, but my grandma did get me "comic collector kits" back in the 80's. One came with a book on how to collect, a price guide, some sort of goofy comic boxes with Marvel characters all over them and like 30 current comics. I wish I remembered which comics I got in that pack. I'm sure I still have them but they are in the boxes somewhere.

 

I remember getting one of those as a gift around 1981 or so and it was a real blast - I still have the mini-guide and had used the comic box to store some old crepe up until a few years ago.

 

I can remember some of the books I got, mostly DC Brave & Bold or DC Comics Presents, but they were all high-grade and I still have them somewhere. I don't remember getting a single top-tier book in the entire pack though and it was about 90% DC.

 

If I'm thinking of the same thing, these were sent out to distributors with the cheesy price guide and boxes and the distributors filled them with whatever leftovers they had. I think it was a Heroes World product.

I'm not familiar with the OPs product, although there was a thread a few years ago by a seller who was offering some sealed boxes that he claimed were factory fresh, but most here thought were repackaged remainders. As I recall, Brent from Quality ended up buying one pack and was fairly pleased with the content.

[joe_collector]

If I'm thinking of the same thing, these were sent out to distributors with the cheesy price guide and boxes and the distributors filled them with whatever leftovers they had.

 

Yep, and I looked up a few of the B&B/DC Presents books I remember getting and they were all in the 1979-1980 range, so it was definitely 1980-81 when I got this.

 

Here's one I still have and while probably worthless it's a dead NM+:

 

[dupont2005]

 

If I'm thinking of the same thing, these were sent out to distributors with the cheesy price guide and boxes and the distributors filled them with whatever leftovers they had. I think it was a Heroes World product.

I'm not familiar with the OPs product, although there was a thread a few years ago by a seller who was offering some sealed boxes that he claimed were factory fresh, but most here thought were repackaged remainders. As I recall, Brent from Quality ended up buying one pack and was fairly pleased with the content.

I remember that. They were Spawn collectors sets. Looked really cool. I wanted one

[dupont2005]

Never saw those, but my grandma did get me "comic collector kits" back in the 80's. One came with a book on how to collect, a price guide, some sort of goofy comic boxes with Marvel characters all over them and like 30 current comics. I wish I remembered which comics I got in that pack. I'm sure I still have them but they are in the boxes somewhere.

 

I remember getting one of those as a gift around 1981 or so and it was a real blast - I still have the mini-guide and had used the comic box to store some old crepe up until a few years ago.

 

I can remember some of the books I got, mostly DC Brave & Bold or DC Comics Presents, but they were all high-grade and I still have them somewhere. I don't remember getting a single top-tier book in the entire pack though and it was about 90% DC.

That must be how I got odd issues of JLE, The Flash, and Forever People in my collection