Bragging rights - your best deal of late?

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 6:39 pm

Just won a copy of Fantagraphics' "I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets", the first in a two volume set of books collecting the weird, eccentric, and sometimes very disturbing Golden Age stories of Fletcher Hanks.

Hard to believe this stuff was being published around the same time as Superman's earliest adventures.

Got it for 99-cents plus $4.00 shipping!

robb77 · Post by **robb77** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 9:22 pm

nice

arghh! · Post by **arghh!** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:11 pm

Today at a little show I picked up 2 unity reds, an Eternal Warrior 1 gold embossed, Archer and Armstrong 0 gold, Rai 9 gold, and Magnus 0 w/o card for 60 bucks. Not like my nickel finds but still decent and I needed all of them too except the reds. I have three now because I am off in the head!

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:18 pm

Mike J · Post by **Mike J** » Sun Aug 01, 2010 10:50 pm

arghh! wrote:Today at a little show I picked up 2 unity reds, an Eternal Warrior 1 gold embossed, Archer and Armstrong 0 gold, Rai 9 gold, and Magnus 0 w/o card for 60 bucks. Not like my nickel finds but still decent and I needed all of them too except the reds. I have three now because I am off in the head!

Sweet deal. It's always cool to find books like these in dollar bins, but for $60 that's a steal as well.

sonicdan · Post by **sonicdan** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:35 pm

I found this in the bin at my local Hastings Entertaiment store today.
A lot of these stores have been getting random assortment of back issues.
I've been looking for a no cover price variant of this book for years!

DAN
<img src=http://sonicdan.com/comics/TurokLostLandnoprice.jpg width=600></img>

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:38 pm

Congrats sonicdan.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:50 pm

Neat find, Dan.

sonicdan · Post by **sonicdan** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 2:55 pm

Thanks guys!
I also picked up this one:
<img src=http://sonicdan.com/comics/YLastMan2.jpg width=500></img>

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 3:49 pm

are early issues of Y getting rare ???

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:21 pm

Great find Dan!

greg · Post by **greg** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:27 pm

sonicdan wrote:I found this in the bin at my local Hastings Entertaiment store today.
A lot of these stores have been getting random assortment of back issues.
I've been looking for a no cover price variant of this book for years!

DAN
<img src=http://sonicdan.com/comics/TurokLostLandnoprice.jpg width=600></img>

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:35 pm

sonicdan wrote:Thanks guys!
I also picked up this one:
<img src=http://sonicdan.com/comics/YLastMan2.jpg width=500></img>

Wow... $2?!?!? I don't care if it isn't NM+++, that's a steal!

-slym

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:35 pm

superman-prime wrote:are early issues of Y getting rare ???

IMHO, they have been rare... I don't think the series picked up and caught on with everyone until close to #10.

-slym

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:47 pm

slym2none wrote:
superman-prime wrote:are early issues of Y getting rare ???
IMHO, they have been rare... I don't think the series picked up and caught on with everyone until close to #10.

-slym

Im pretty sure # 2 is still the killer to grab.

I sold a copy for £23 before # 6 was out and saw a copy go for that in the last few months after all this time.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 4:56 pm

Draco wrote:
slym2none wrote:
superman-prime wrote:are early issues of Y getting rare ???
IMHO, they have been rare... I don't think the series picked up and caught on with everyone until close to #10.

-slym
Im pretty sure # 2 is still the killer to grab.

I sold a copy for £23 before # 6 was out and saw a copy go for that in the last few months after all this time.

#s 2 & 3 of any series like this are always the tough ones... #1 are expected to sell some, but who knows with 2 & 3, and with orders being put in 3 months in advance, orders are always low.

-slym (isn't telling Draco anything he doesn't already know)

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Thu Aug 05, 2010 10:01 pm

Hastings is f'ing based in Amarillo - why do none of the good books end up there?

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:39 am

I've found some decent books here as well... the person handling the pricing must have no rhyme or reason or intelligence.

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:42 am

thanks ill buy tehm next time i see them is it just the first 10 or so ?

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 3:49 am

I miss treasure hunting

Great snag dan!

ian_house · Post by **ian_house** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 5:24 am

superman-prime wrote:thanks ill buy tehm next time i see them is it just the first 10 or so ?

Nah only up to about 4 or 5. From 6 they are reasonably common I think.

Chiclo · Post by **Chiclo** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 9:36 am

Knightt wrote:I've found some decent books here as well... the person handling the pricing must have no rhyme or reason or intelligence.

I have talked to the (regional?) guy here. I caught him in the store one day and bent his ear a little while about selling back issues.

Their business model is totally broken. They insist that if they give in store credit for comics when they acquire them then when they sell the comics they are working on a 100% profit margin.

StarBrand · Post by **StarBrand** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 12:48 pm

Picked up some late Crossgen issues for about 1.00 ea.

iggy101us · Post by **iggy101us** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:26 pm

Chiclo wrote:
Knightt wrote:I've found some decent books here as well... the person handling the pricing must have no rhyme or reason or intelligence.
I have talked to the (regional?) guy here. I caught him in the store one day and bent his ear a little while about selling back issues.

Their business model is totally broken. They insist that if they give in store credit for comics when they acquire them then when they sell the comics they are working on a 100% profit margin.

Knightt · Post by **Knightt** » Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:34 pm

Chiclo wrote:
Knightt wrote:I've found some decent books here as well... the person handling the pricing must have no rhyme or reason or intelligence.
I have talked to the (regional?) guy here. I caught him in the store one day and bent his ear a little while about selling back issues.

Their business model is totally broken. They insist that if they give in store credit for comics when they acquire them then when they sell the comics they are working on a 100% profit margin.

Yeah that works for me....