What is the best deal you have ever gotten on a comic?

[nwpassage]

I could get silver-age marvels for .12cents for years.

[The-Collector]

I could get silver-age marvels for .12cents for years.

 

[Shaven Kev-migration]

I got a bunch of low print run later period dark horse aliens vs predator comics out of a 50 cent box and flipped them on ebay around the time the second horrible movie came out. People were going nuts for them. Some of the minis sold for like 60-90 dollars and were probably only worth the 50 cents I paid.

[paperheart]

bought an ASM #129 for 20 cents, waited 30 years, subbed it, came back 9.6, sold it for $1750.

 

this thread needs burntboy.

[Bio-Rupp]

Purchased a Peter Parker Spectacular Spm # 1 my freshman year in high school in 1982 for $1... and sold it two days later for $5.

 

Rich beyond belief I was

[slym2none]

Nothing spectacular here, about the best I can think of is seeing a Marvel Premiere #1 & 2 at a yard sale years ago for $5 each. I think I sold them to my LCS for $60 at the time.

 

 

 

-slym

[ciorac]

without a doubt...

 

Action Comics 1 - 23 in 1996 for $24,000

[techtre2003]

without a doubt...

 

Action Comics 1 - 23 in 1996 for $24,000

 

 

Best I have is Avengers 55 bought for $45. Graded at 9.0 and sold for $675

[comicsnyc22]

Bought a Walking Dead #1 from a close friend that had about 10 copies for $200 bucks. Came back a 9.8 black label.

 

I also just bought an X-men #1 for $500 and it came back a 2.5

[THE_BEYONDER]

without a doubt...

 

Action Comics 1 - 23 in 1996 for $24,000

 

[Mark 1]

I've never really "scored" a great deal at the outset. Mostly i've bought a comic at a fair price and it has a jump in popularity and spikes in price.

 

However, I still think back to the AF15 I bought for $800 back in 1990. It's long gone now.

[Badger]

At a Dallas Fantasy Fair in '92 I traded a Magnus #12 for an Amazing Spider-Man #18 in FN+.

 

Bought a Captain America Comics #16 for $1,000 off of ebay and it came back blue 5.0.

 

 

[Gotham Kid]

I could get silver-age marvels for .12cents for years.

 

[143ksk]

bought an ASM #129 for 20 cents, waited 30 years, subbed it, came back 9.6, sold it for $1750.

 

this thread needs burntboy.

 

I have a very similar story, but it's a GS X-Men #1

[IchigosSoul]

I found about 15 Y the Last Man's and about 12 old Marvel GI Joe's in the quarter bin when I was home earlier this month, and Y's are about VF+ and the GI Joes are worth it for the read.

[conditionfreak]

Bought a FF #1 coverless, at a second hand store. I asked how much the two comic books the seller had on the table were, and he said .25 cents each. They were a coverless FF #1 and a Bugs Bunny comic from the 80's. He only had the two comics.

 

I gave him a dollar and said to keep the change.

 

I wasn't sure it was an original FF #1 until I got home and started checking. I thought it might have been a reprint at first. But I learned it was in fact the original.

 

This is of course, not counting the books I bought off the shelf in the early 60's for cover price or less. Like ASM #1.

[ChiSoxFan]

without a doubt...

 

Action Comics 1 - 23 in 1996 for $24,000

 

I remember that! I got a chance to hold that #1 in hand after you picked it up -- that was something I'll always look back on and be glad I got a chance to see those books.

[gsolol]

I bought an X-men 97 CGC 9.8 with White Pages off of Ebay for $500 about 6 months ago.

[jayhawker]

Back in 1988 someone had comics listed for sale in the newspaper. He had about 1400( silver and bronze) books almost all marvel and wanted 50 cents a piece. I asked him what he would take for everything and he said 50 cents a piece, no bulk deal. I bought more then half. When I was about to leave he told me he had a few more in back. He comes out with Spider-man 2, 3 and 9. I asked how much and he said he would have to get a dollar a piece for these. Some of the other books were Journey into Mystery 112(cgc 8.5), 3 copies Amazing Spider-man 122( 1 came back cgc 9.4), 121, Fantastic Four 49, 52.

[Boboset]

I've had really good luck in the last few months.

Bought a lower grade TTA 13 for $50 sold it for $900. Purchased both Marvel Collectable Classics: Spider-Man issues for ten bucks a pop, sent to CGC and received 9.8s on both.

 

My best though is from a few years ago. I bought an advertised VF- ebay TTA44 for $300, sent it to Joey for a squish and it came back 8.5.