POST YOUR BEST....

[Ajax]

Post the Best deal you have ever gotten on a silver age comic...Mine would have to be X-men 8 in a 5.5 condition for 20 bucks

 

 

POST AWAY!!!!!

[OldGuy]

Burntboy wins. He got his SA books for cover price. With that in mind, any deal is a bad one.

[squidmo2000]

I usually pay guide or above for all of the silver age CGC books I get on Ebay,but I did get an ASM #100(tail end of silver?) in 8.5 for $67 and #122(bronze age?) in 8.5 for $107..........pretty good deals I think......... I also picked up Tales to Astonish #'s 46,48,54,&58 all in 8.0 for $70-$90 a pop........

[uclapeterg]

Burntboy wins. He got his SA books for cover price. With that in mind, any deal is a bad one.

 

Agreed. BB.

[october]

I don't usually buy silver age, but I did pick up a copy of X-Men 62 in 9.0/9.2 shape for $20.

[Sharkey]

I've told this story before, but for the benefit of the kid here goes

 

("Pleeeez, Grampa, tell us about the Great Comic Find of 1972 again! Pleeeeez!")

 

I was kid going to garage sales because I liked old comics and could find them cheaper than I could buy the new 20-centers at the grocery story. Stumbled on one with the veritable treasure trove of "old" comics (this was early 1970s and these were all early-to-mid 60s comics in the box). They were 10 cents each. I only had a dollar. I picked up Amazing Spider-Man 15, 16, 22, and Annual 1, Fantastic Four 25 and 26, Showcase 34, a couple of early Strange Tales and a Daredevil 12, I believe. Best dollar I ever spent.

[tilleycs]

I got a VG Hulk #109 in a bargain bin for $1.00 a couple of years ago at an LCS. A couple of weekends ago, I got a GD Hulk #102 for $13 at an LCS that was having a big February sale.

 

I've gotten a lot of SA Captain America issues in large lots that I've won on ebay.

[EC Star&Bar]

Two that come to mind:

 

Back around 1978, I bought a copy of Strange Adventures #180, about vg+, for 50 cents at a second-hand shop (first appearance of Animal Man).

 

My best deal in more recent years: In 1999, a good friend who was running a LCS sold me a very high grade, gorgeous copy of Showcase #62 for just $5. (That book is a priority for me to send in for grading -- first appearance Inferior Five.)

[tth2]

Burntboy wins. He got his SA books for cover price. With that in mind, any deal is a bad one.

 

Agreed. BB.

 

Yup, 10 cents=Fantastic Four #1. 'nuff said.

 

To rub salt in the wound, I think he said on one of these posts that he picked up one awesome book for 5 cents!

[Ajax]

Burntboy wins. He got his SA books for cover price. With that in mind, any deal is a bad one.

 

Agreed. BB.

 

Yup, 10 cents=Fantastic Four #1. 'nuff said.

 

To rub salt in the wound, I think he said on one of these posts that he picked up one awesome book for 5 cents!

 

How in the world did he get FF1 for 10 cents!

[micmack]

18 years ago, picked up an x-men 41 for $3.00 at my LCS only because it looked almost brand new, unlike the other silver age stuff that looked ragged and such. I had it graded last year at 9.2

[g-man]

bought a vf ASM #14 for $80 in a CBG ad when i was about 15. Graded it a few years back and it came back cgc 8.5.

 

honorable mention: got 1 IF #14s for $5 each in bins at a show and they came back cgc 9.4s..long gone. Also Michael Jordan rookie card for $12 many years ago. Still got that.

[burntboy]

Burntboy wins. He got his SA books for cover price. With that in mind, any deal is a bad one.

 

Agreed. BB.

 

Yup, 10 cents=Fantastic Four #1. 'nuff said.

 

To rub salt in the wound, I think he said on one of these posts that he picked up one awesome book for 5 cents!

 

How in the world did he get FF1 for 10 cents!

 

back in the fall of 1961 (when FF #1 hit the stands) it was simple. you could buy all the Mint copies you wanted for 10 cents right off the racks........

 

of course, who knew what that would translate into today's values, so most kids bought one copy and loved it to death until it practically fell apart. i was already in "collector-mode" with my DC's so it got put into a cardboard box with the rest and they stood the test of time fairly well.

 

in fact, it will finally be heading south for grading in a week. my expectations aren't too high because, it too, was well-loved..............

 

most of my 5centers purchased at used book stores in Newark, NJ, weren't in the best shape, but there is the occasional exception. this book may be one of them and it's the last issue of Superman before the Silver Age:

 

 

i particularly love Rhino's story here with the 10 books for a buck and he still remembers the titles and issues......

[Silver]

I pulled a ASM 14 and 16 out of a trash dumpster in 1972 when I was 10 years old. While I do not still have them, I do consider that a pretty good deal

[Sharkey]

Burntboy wins. He got his SA books for cover price. With that in mind, any deal is a bad one.

 

Agreed. BB.

 

Yup, 10 cents=Fantastic Four #1. 'nuff said.

 

To rub salt in the wound, I think he said on one of these posts that he picked up one awesome book for 5 cents!

 

How in the world did he get FF1 for 10 cents!

 

 

READ THE POST. He bought the comics at COVER PRICE. The COVER PRICE is 10 cents.

 

You see, these comics were once for sale at newstands for their cover price. Some people actually bought comics back then and kept them, you see. Capice??

 

Dang boy, do we gots ta 'splain EVERYTHING to you?

[namisgr]

I can't compete with Harry on this one (who do we know who can?), but I do have a good collection of Bronze books purchased off the racks. My Hulk 181 (25 cents) came back from CGC as a 9.4, and my GS X-Men 1 (35 cents) as a 9.0. My ASM 120 graded at 9.8 (the only one in my collection, so far), tied for top census grade.

 

Among "second-hand" purchases, the best and worst I've ever done were in the same deal. Shortly after the Pacific Coast pedigree books were listed on Robert Roter's website back in '99 (called the Original Owner books at that time), I purchased a baker's dozen of the raw Silver Age beauties. Best? Copped some incredible 9.4 and 9.6 FFs and JIMs for less than 2X guide. Worst? Passed on run after run of one of the best Silver Age pedigrees of all.

[paperheart]

ASM 14 for $58 at least 20 years ago at a convention in NYC. Had it slabbed last year- 9.2. Another candidate- Batman 234 for $5 from Michael Carbonaro around the same time- that's a 9.6.

[Jeffreykli]

My best deal is the "Berkeley heroin" collection...in short, I bought about 50-60 low grade books off a guy in Berkeley, CA in 1992. I paid $15 for the grocery bag of comics (or an average cost of roughly $.30 each), and most of the comics were Atomic Age/Silver Age war books.

 

I flipped most of the books for $1 each, and sold the better books (which included EC Comics Valor #1 and #2 and probably got $100-$200 out of the collection. I only kept a few books, which are:

 

 

 

[shadroch]

Flash 105 for $2. It was in fair to god condition but a $200 restoration in 1990 brought it back to 9.0 shape.

[Freddy-G.-migration]

You won't believe this but it's all true. When I was about 13 years old, my friend and I collected comics (1969). He bought a lot more comics than I did. Even multiple copies of some issues. Then one day he saw that I had the Simon & Garfunkel album "Bookends". He decided that he had to have that album. He traded all of his comics to me for that one album. That album cost about 3 bucks. The comics filled 3 grocery bags! You know the old style paper bags. Probably about 1000 comics in all. There were double and triple copies of Amazing Spider-Man #50s-up. Silver Surfer. Yes there were 3 or 4 copies of Silver Surfer 1 and 4. 3 copies of Iron Man 1. Hulk 102 and up. Daredevil, Captain America, Fantastic Four, mostly Marvel with a few DC books.

 

Now the bad news. There wasn't room for all those comics inside the house, so a lot of them were kept in a large cardboard box in the basement. One day, there was a hard rain and the basement flooded. When I went to the basement, the books were soaked. I remember picking up a Silver Surfer 1 and peeling the wet cover back. I was in tears. The books were ruined.

 

But not all bad news. I kept all the books that were stored inside the house (about 2000 books) until I sold my collection in 1994 for almost $4,000. Wish I hadn't done that. Since the advent of CGC, that collection would be worth about 10-15 grand easy. I had absolutely mint copies of Amazing Spider-Man 121, 122, 129, Marvel Spotlight 5, etc.

 

Now I've replaced most of my favorite books. But, I'll never forget the best deal I made for comics. My latest best deal story is that I bought 10 copies of Ultimate Spider-Man #1 at cover price and 12 copies of the DF variant at $10 each when it came out in 2000. I've had 4 copies graded. Two of them came back CGC 9.8. Lucky me.