Bragging rights - your best deal of late?

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Mon May 09, 2005 4:45 pm

Knightt_333 wrote:
mrwoogieman wrote:Picked up some Acclaim issues, and a few Valiants too, for .65 each. Nothing too crazy, like first issue variants and GOAT and some others. Also got some Broadway issues at half cover, $1.25 each.

WARNING, I may put them into a board sale and charge MORE than I paid. Or as I call it, catch and release!
Nice snag, Woog !! Almost as good as my 81 issue snag in Vegas at $.05 cents a piece. Yep, my I always said I need more Acclaim... or was that Harada ? LOL

Still it started my Acclaim collection off nicely even when I HAD decided not to get into Acclaim.

That's the way to do it alright. Find a friendly shop with back issues and make a deal. I ended up going back to the same store for three different trips going through this guy's back issues in his basement. In addition to the usual good stuff, I found a CEAR for $0.65.

Nice snag on the Fatale tpb too!

SolarFan777 · Post by **SolarFan777** » Mon May 09, 2005 4:48 pm

jedimarley wrote:
hulk181man wrote:
jedimarley wrote:
hulk181man wrote:Ok, I was trying to curtail my book spending this month, but this was too good to pass up. Sometimes it's worth asking for pictures....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 6524578353
You suck!

( )
I like to think of it as good karma for that tip I gave you and Kevin.
Some tip!
I drive a hour and a half to find that the store is closed on sunday!

At least you'll know where you're going next time.

BTW I stopped by there late Sat. after work and snagged a Magnus #2 w/ coupon for a $1.

See... theres still good books out there Jedi!

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:22 pm

mrwoogieman wrote:I ended up going back to the same store for three different trips going through this guy's back issues in his basement. In addition to the usual good stuff, I found a CEAR for $0.65.

Now that's a score!

jedimarley · Post by **jedimarley** » Mon May 09, 2005 5:25 pm

SolarFan777 wrote:
jedimarley wrote:
hulk181man wrote:
jedimarley wrote:
hulk181man wrote:Ok, I was trying to curtail my book spending this month, but this was too good to pass up. Sometimes it's worth asking for pictures....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 6524578353
You suck!

( )
I like to think of it as good karma for that tip I gave you and Kevin.
Some tip!
I drive a hour and a half to find that the store is closed on sunday!

At least you'll know where you're going next time.

BTW I stopped by there late Sat. after work and snagged a Magnus #2 w/ coupon for a $1.
See... theres still good books out there Jedi!

davidb · Post by **davidb** » Mon May 09, 2005 6:29 pm

Best recent deal? Easily this - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1. Not the greatest picture, but the #5 and #12 were in absolutely beautiful shape. Well worth what I paid.

David B.

400yrs · Post by **400yrs** » Mon May 09, 2005 7:07 pm

davidb wrote:Best recent deal? Easily this - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1. Not the greatest picture, but the #5 and #12 were in absolutely beautiful shape. Well worth what I paid.

David B.

Nice carpet, too! I'll give you 25 for the books and 500 for the carpet!

Mr.V · Post by **Mr.V** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:35 pm

I was for sure that someone was gonna out snipe me on this one

:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

Not a bad price considering one of these issues(

????

) sold for $36.99 recently.

Mr. V

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:39 pm

Unity 2000 1,2&3 for 99 cents. Yeah, I'd say you got a deal.

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:02 am

Went to a guy's garage last night and rummaged through about 20 long boxes of modern garbage, almost all of the good stuff was gone. But he also had a couple of boxes of hardcover books and some other stuff that hadn't been picked over. Here's what I got:

5 pulps from 1935-1954, decent condition around VG
Seduction of the Innocent 2nd Ed. with dust jacket! (1954)
Encyclopedia of Super-Heroes - oversized hardcover
Sex in the Comics - oversized hc
Marvel 50 years of comics - oversized hc
Batman Arkham Asylum hc
Batman Dracula Red Rain hc
Akira 1-10 epic issues NM
5 Marvel Giant-Size issues, all VG/F and better
Watchmen tpb - 1st print
Grendel devil's legacy tpb
Star Wars 100-107, missing 105 VF/NM or so
Magnus v. Predator 1 - signed by Lee Weeks /5000
Harbinger tpb - signed by Shooter /2000 with cert

I think that's all. Total price was $100!

greg · Post by **greg** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:30 am

mrwoogieman wrote:Seduction of the Innocent 2nd Ed. with dust jacket! (1954)

Vault-Keeper · Post by **Vault-Keeper** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:44 am

greg wrote:
mrwoogieman wrote:Seduction of the Innocent 2nd Ed. with dust jacket! (1954)

I used to have a 1st edition with the elusive page #400---the banned publishers page!

Unfortunately it is long gone....traded it to Bonnett's in Dayton...

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:51 am

greg wrote:
mrwoogieman wrote:Seduction of the Innocent 2nd Ed. with dust jacket! (1954)

I was explaining the importance of the book to the guy selling it to me, he didn't seem to know anything about it. How do you accumulate 14,000 comics in your garage and not know about SOTI's historical impact? but yet still have a copy?

Whatever, I'm going back out to his place tomorrow and getting the other 50 or so pulps I left behind last night. I think I'll offer him $200 for the rest of them, and since I already insulted him by offering $100 for the whole box, he may just bite!

Maybe I'll snag some more tpbs and hardcovers too since he's practically giving the stuff away. For a buck or two each, it's hard not to make money on those.

Vault-Keeper · Post by **Vault-Keeper** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:56 am

mrwoogieman wrote:
greg wrote:
mrwoogieman wrote:Seduction of the Innocent 2nd Ed. with dust jacket! (1954)

I was explaining the importance of the book to the guy selling it to me, he didn't seem to know anything about it. How do you accumulate 14,000 comics in your garage and not know about SOTI's historical impact? but yet still have a copy?

Whatever, I'm going back out to his place tomorrow and getting the other 50 or so pulps I left behind last night. I think I'll offer him $200 for the rest of them, and since I already insulted him by offering $100 for the whole box, he may just bite!

Maybe I'll snag some more tpbs and hardcovers too since he's practically giving the stuff away. For a buck or two each, it's hard not to make money on those.

Great haul, Woo!

What are the titles of the pulps? I look for various ones...--Steve

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:03 am

Here's what I recall, but the five I got are at home right now so I can't check until later

Amazing Stories
Startling Stories
Fantastic Science
Ten Detective Stories

That's all I can recall. He had multiple issues of these titles and others. Ten or so of those half-sized pulps too, not sure of the titles on the little ones.

djm928 · Post by **djm928** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:21 pm

I guess I better start going to some yard sales... unbelievable haul Woo!

I had a few good snags from a video store going out of business: He said that the books in the box were all cover price!
Amazing Spider-Man 45, 57 and 61: 12 cents each plus tax. I felt kind of bad so I also picked up some of the wolverines in his box as well: #8 & 10. It was hard to contain my excitement as I handed over the $3 and change.

X-O HoboJoe · Post by **X-O HoboJoe** » Thu May 12, 2005 2:52 pm

djm928 wrote:I guess I better start going to some yard sales... unbelievable haul Woo!

I had a few good snags from a video store going out of business: He said that the books in the box were all cover price!
Amazing Spider-Man 45, 57 and 61: 12 cents each plus tax. I felt kind of bad so I also picked up some of the wolverines in his box as well: #8 & 10. It was hard to contain my excitement as I handed over the $3 and change.

Good God! Who know's what I woulda done?

"Uh, sir, did you just *SQUEE* your pants?"

"Oh no, that's just a leak in my Whizzanator."

"Huh. Did you fill it with soft soap?"

mrwoogieman · Post by **mrwoogieman** » Thu May 12, 2005 3:11 pm

djm928 wrote:I guess I better start going to some yard sales... unbelievable haul Woo!

I had a few good snags from a video store going out of business: He said that the books in the box were all cover price!
Amazing Spider-Man 45, 57 and 61: 12 cents each plus tax. I felt kind of bad so I also picked up some of the wolverines in his box as well: #8 & 10. It was hard to contain my excitement as I handed over the $3 and change.

Thanks! Nice pick up yourself there. Unfortunately, I just called the guy back and someone else picked up the rest of his pulps last night. Oh well, I still got a nice deal.

GGSAE · Post by **GGSAE** » Fri May 13, 2005 7:47 am

If this turns out to have the special edition vol.2#1, then I would have stumbled on a deal very similar to hulk.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

I sent the guy a couple emails asking for pics of all the acclaim comics but he just said it was the special edition variant but sent a pic of number one. I tried to tell him that there's 3 covers of that issue but he retorted stating these aren't from the vol.3 series. Needless to say he doesn't know much about these books, which could be why i may get the rare special edition for nothing.

greg · Post by **greg** » Fri May 13, 2005 9:10 am

GGSAE wrote:If this turns out to have the special edition vol.2#1, then I would have stumbled on a deal very similar to hulk.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

I sent the guy a couple emails asking for pics of all the acclaim comics but he just said it was the special edition variant but sent a pic of number one. I tried to tell him that there's 3 covers of that issue but he retorted stating these aren't from the vol.3 series. Needless to say he doesn't know much about these books, which could be why i may get the rare special edition for nothing.

If he's got two copies of Shadoman Vol 2 #1...
then he's probably talking about about regular and painted.
But, we can keep our fingers crossed for ya...

Vault-Keeper · Post by **Vault-Keeper** » Fri May 13, 2005 9:59 am

mrwoogieman wrote:Unfortunately, I just called the guy back and someone else picked up the rest of his pulps last night. Oh well, I still got a nice deal.

I thought it was funny that you picked up any Amazing Stories pulps because I just picked one up from 1948 at a local auction. It was in a box of 30 magician's magazines (TOPS) from the 1940's that I bought for $5. The cover shows Earth being attacked by red spiders from Mars!---Steve

whetteon · Post by **whetteon** » Fri May 13, 2005 1:32 pm

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wait, what are we talking about?

Mr.V · Post by **Mr.V** » Fri May 13, 2005 2:07 pm

Got a call about a collection last week. Looked it over yesterday and picked out 142 books. Notables are as follows:

Barney&Betty Rubble 11 x2 (1st Mike Zeck art)

Captain America 282 (1st Nomad)
Cavewoman 1 x2

Cavewoman 3
Crisis 8
Secret Wars 8
Megaton 2 x2
Megaton 3 x2 (1st Savage Dragon)

X-Factor 6 (1st Apocalypse)
X-Factor 24 (1st Archangel)
Giant Size Chillers Curse of Dracula 1 (1st Lilith)

Giant Size Chillers 1
Giant Size Dracula 2 x2
Ghost Rider 2,6,16
X-Men 108 (1st Byrne X-Men)

X-Men 205 x2 (cool BWS Woverine Cover)
X-Men 342 x2 (variant Rogue cover)
Marvel Spotlight 2 (1st Werewolf by Night)

Star Wars 68 x3 (re-intro Boba Fett)
Star Wars 107 (last issue, low distribution)

Woverine 100
Batman: Black&White (1st Jim Lee Batman)
Animal Mystic 3
Sin City: Silent Night
Yummy Fur 1
Jonah Hex 2-20, 92 x2
Scooby Doo 2 (Charlton)
Tomahawk 128 (Neal Adams cover)
Action Comics Giant 373
Tomb of Dracula 70 (last issue)
HOM 194,199
Secrets of Haunted House 1
Worlds Finest 224, 227 (100 pagers)
Brave&Bold 113 (100 pager)
Shazam 8 (100 pager)
Fantastic Four 172 ($.30 Marvel Price Variant)

And the best find of the day.....WHITMAN PRE-PACK ISSUES!!!!!!

Bugs Bunny 222, 223
Daffy Duck 131

Daisy and Donald 45
Little Lulu 261

Pink Panther 77

Popeye 159
Porky Pig 98 x2

Various conditions. All for the paltry sum of $.50 each. Goodtimes!!!

Mr.V

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Fri May 13, 2005 2:10 pm

what the heck? Someone let you cherry pick their collection and only wanted .50 a book on top of that? Must be nice.....

Mr.V · Post by **Mr.V** » Fri May 13, 2005 2:15 pm

Brother J wrote:what the heck? Someone let you cherry pick their collection and only wanted .50 a book on top of that? Must be nice.....

If I would have had more time, I woulda grabbed another 2-3 longboxes of material

, but I had already been there for 6 hours

and had things to do last night. I talked to the owner about coming back and he said the books will all be there when I get back

. Maybe in the next week or so I'll pay a return visit.

Mr.V

hulk181man · Post by **hulk181man** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:52 pm

GGSAE wrote:If this turns out to have the special edition vol.2#1, then I would have stumbled on a deal very similar to hulk.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... %3AIT&rd=1

I sent the guy a couple emails asking for pics of all the acclaim comics but he just said it was the special edition variant but sent a pic of number one. I tried to tell him that there's 3 covers of that issue but he retorted stating these aren't from the vol.3 series. Needless to say he doesn't know much about these books, which could be why i may get the rare special edition for nothing.

Here's hoping you get it