The Shrine Show was actually really good this month - at least for me!

[CommandD]

Massive displays of porn for sale aside, a number of comic dealers were there and a few of them were really blowing out their seventies and eighties books. I bought about fifty late seventies Marvel books (for 25 cent a book) from one dealer, a little over a hundred books (for a dollar a pop) from another dealer and 600 books ( for a quarter a book) from a third. And the good news is that the last two dealers stuff was unsearched when I got to it. I ended up with, get this, THIRTY Marvel price variants, over one hundred NM #1s from the seventies (DC and Marvel) and lots of seventies minor keys like Howard the Duck 12 and 13 and Logan's Run #6 (first appearances of Kiss, first app. of Thanos respectivly) and lots of "last issues" (like Conan 275.)

 

I also bought a high grade run of 1970s Kid Colt from Eliot Spera and some great DC war books from Michael Dice.

 

Rutger Hauer was there signing autographs as was Jeff Conway from the old TV show "Taxi" (who the announcer misidentified at least once as "Tim Conway.")

 

Back to the porn aspect of the show. I counted at least ten dealers selling either old Playboys, Huster, hardcore DVDs, hardcore porn magazines or other material I consider inappropriate for a "Comic Book and Science Fiction Show."

 

Because of the porn, once again I am glad I didn't bring my children to the show. Not only did I save $8.00 per ticket, but I didn't have to explain "why the man was sticking his thing in the woman's bathing suit area?"

[Flee-Marquette]

Not only did I save $8.00 per ticket, but I didn't have to explain "why the man was sticking his thing in the woman's bathing suit area?"

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[SharpComics.com]

What price variants did you come up with?

[deathlok]

I was gonna go to the show, but a last minute golf game beckoned me.

[Detroit MIke]

Not only did I save $8.00 per ticket, but I didn't have to explain "why the man was sticking his thing in the woman's bathing suit area?"

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[CommandD]

What price variants did you come up with?

 

Avengers, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Conan Dr. Strange, Defenders, Eternals, Ghost Rider, Hulk, Inhumans, Invaders, Iron Man, Kull, Logan's Run, Marvel Premiere, Marvel Spotlight (Issue # variant) Marvel's Greatest Comics, Master of Kung Fu, Red Sonjia and 2001.

[underthebigw]

What price variants did you come up with?

 

Avengers, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Conan Dr. Strange, Defenders, Eternals, Ghost Rider, Hulk, Inhumans, Invaders, Iron Man, Kull, Logan's Run, Marvel Premiere, Marvel Spotlight (Issue # variant) Marvel's Greatest Comics, Master of Kung Fu, Red Sonjia and 2001.

 

Judging from the list, you found 35 centers, and some pretty tough ones. If so, that's an amazing find. All 35 cent issues?

[CommandD]

What price variants did you come up with?

 

Avengers, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Conan Dr. Strange, Defenders, Eternals, Ghost Rider, Hulk, Inhumans, Invaders, Iron Man, Kull, Logan's Run, Marvel Premiere, Marvel Spotlight (Issue # variant) Marvel's Greatest Comics, Master of Kung Fu, Red Sonjia and 2001.

 

Judging from the list, you found 35 centers, and some pretty tough ones. If so, that's an amazing find. All 35 cent issues?

 

Both 30 and 35 centers. What is surprising to me is I believe that the comics all came from a comic book store's stock. The store was in Orange County and I have always been under the impression that price variants were never distributed in the O.C. If this is true, where did the store get them all, why didn't they sell them and why didn't the dealer who purchased the store stock recognize and pull them? A lot of bad luck for other people that led to good luck for me.

[the blob]

Sounds like a great haul, wish I'd find that here but these dealers rarely do less than $1 box here and when it's 50 cents a book it's usually (but not always) a total waste of time looking through the boxes. (And even when it's anything good, maybe I find 5 good books out of 15 long boxes). But I have one nit picky correction:

 

Logan's Run #6 (first app. of Thanos)

 

Off by a few years. It is the first Thanos solo story. He had appeared many times before that issue, mainly in Captain Marvel, but I think in Avengers too.

[Pirate]

Sounds like a great haul, wish I'd find that here but these dealers rarely do less than $1 box here and when it's 50 cents a book it's usually (but not always) a total waste of time looking through the boxes. (And even when it's anything good, maybe I find 5 good books out of 15 long boxes). But I have one nit picky correction:

 

Logan's Run #6 (first app. of Thanos)

 

Off by a few years. It is the first Thanos solo story. He had appeared many times before that issue, mainly in Captain Marvel, but I think in Avengers too.

 

Iron Man #55

[rjpb]

I don't have a problem with old "pin-up" stuff at a comic show - like back issue Playboys and other vintage girlie mags, Bettie Page items, and the like. By today's standards it is all pretty tame (even the bondage stuff) and does have "vintage paper collectible" cross-over appeal, but I agree the hard-core material cheapens the show. At the very least it should be relegated to an adults only area - which is what many comic shops do to separate porno comics from the rest.

 

Explicit comic books are a bit trickier at a show - after all they are comics - dealers should just show some discretion in displaying them.