Comics You Didn't Know Existed Until You Found Them... 1 1

[Tri-Color Brian]

Let's show your favorite books you found by "accident" while searching boxes of comics in a store or at a show and immediately had to have...These would be books you had never seen before and did not search out.  Here's a few of my accidental finds:

Edited February 27, 2017 by tricolorbrian

[Tri-Color Brian]

Oh...this topic is really taking off...

[Ricksneatstuff]

Fight 37 is awesome.  

I "found" this in a JimJum thread. Thought it was cool so picked it up  

 

[Readcomix]

Found this in an LCS

[Readcomix]

Found this tucked away in a guy's estate collection that I purchased in its entirety

[OtherEric]

Ordered this from Metropolis about 8 years ago, I figured the listing was a typo for Adventures of Peter Wheat #43. There wasn't even a scan, but the book was cheap.   Overstreet still only lists Peter Wheat News to #30, and back then the GCD did the same.  So I, quite literally, did not know the book existed until I had it in my hand, and was happily surprised to discover an unlisted book.  Mind you, the title has been driving me crazy- over the last 8 years I've found (and won) exactly 11 complete issue, and 15 with just the comic pages:

 

[Tri-Color Brian]

1 hour ago, OtherEric said:

Ordered this from Metropolis about 8 years ago, I figured the listing was a typo for Adventures of Peter Wheat #43. There wasn't even a scan, but the book was cheap.   Overstreet still only lists Peter Wheat News to #30, and back then the GCD did the same.  So I, quite literally, did not know the book existed until I had it in my hand, and was happily surprised to discover an unlisted book.  Mind you, the title has been driving me crazy- over the last 8 years I've found (and won) exactly 11 complete issue, and 15 with just the comic pages:

 

I guess that's pretty cool, and I've never heard of that title...until now...

[Tri-Color Brian]

1 hour ago, Readcomix said:

Found this tucked away in a guy's estate collection that I purchased in its entirety

What a nice man...giving that little girl an ice cream...

[Tri-Color Brian]

1 hour ago, Readcomix said:

Found this in an LCS

Cool cover.  I bet it was cheap too...LCS' usually don't know about that kind of stuff.  I found a Teenage Romances #33 (with a Baker cover) in an LCS about 10 years ago for $12...

[Tri-Color Brian]

2 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Fight 37 is awesome.  

I "found" this in a JimJum thread. Thought it was cool so picked it up  

 

I bet you sold it too...huh?  Didn't ya?  Huh?

HH Wolfman had that Fight 37 on the wall of his shop in Mesa, AZ.  I'd never seen it before, so naturally I had to buy it.  I can't believe he was selling it...he usually keeps all the good stuff for himself.

Edited February 27, 2017 by tricolorbrian

[Ricksneatstuff]

Fight 37 is awesome.  

I "found" this in a JimJum thread. Thought it was cool so picked it up  

Unfortunately, no takers yet. 

[Tri-Color Brian]

2 hours ago, Ricksneatstuff said:

Fight 37 is awesome.  

I "found" this in a JimJum thread. Thought it was cool so picked it up  

Unfortunately, no takers yet. 

I KNEW it...! 

[comicjack]

This is one

 

 

[comicjack]

Another

 

[porcupine48]

Brian,I want that Blazing #3!Golden Turtle rules!

 

[comicjack]

One more

 

[the blob]

While I am familiar with the TNMT comics (though I didn't buy them when they were coming out in the 80s), I didn't know anything about this until I saw it in the cheap-o box...along with 6 more copies.  I am a little shocked the LCS didn't know what it was either.  Indeed, I shoved them in a box and didn't dig them up until 5 years later when I saw they were worth something!  Every single one, unfortunately, has a big spine tick near the top where the issue stuck out from the other comics in the box because this is taller (and wider) than a regular comic.  Indeed, I think it is even too long for many magazine backing boards.

Edit: OOOPS!  I didn't realize this was in the Gold thread!  I guess this was the Golden Age of TNMT...

Edited February 27, 2017 by the blob

[Readcomix]

6 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

Brian,I want that Blazing #3!Golden Turtle rules!

 

If you like the Green Turtle, wait til you open a Blazing and read Jun-Gal!

[Readcomix]

15 hours ago, tricolorbrian said:

Cool cover.  I bet it was cheap too...LCS' usually don't know about that kind of stuff.  I found a Teenage Romances #33 (with a Baker cover) in an LCS about 10 years ago for $12...

Yep. I traded for it, but he only had $25 on it. And my photo does not do it justice. Other than the lower left crease and very slight roll upper left, the rest of it is flat, bright, and clean.

[porcupine48]

1 hour ago, Readcomix said:

If you like the Green Turtle, wait til you open a Blazing and read Jun-Gal!

I've got issues 1&2