It Came From the Bargain Bins, or, Cool Finds for Cheap

[zack kruse]

I was at a car boot sale yesterday and found a whole stack of old SF digest size magazines ranging in date from the 50s to the 80s. The guy at the stall charged me 20p (equivalent to about 30c) each for these beauties.

Spent last night reading a reaction piece to the first season of Star Trek and some nice tales of space and time travel.

Lot of the mags are Street & Smith's Astounding SF. Not only do these feature some excellent black and white interior illustrations, they also have fantastic cover art by SF stalwarts van Dongen, Emsh and Freas.

That is AWESOME! What a great find

[clever_username]

I know I mentioned it in another thread, but I recently picked up a bundle at store here in Phoneix for $10. It contained the first volume of Alien Legion, minus number 17. A little over $.50 an issue, and some look like they have not been read. Probably going to bind them when I get them bound and hunt down volume two and the mini.

[Julian]

I found at my LCS Omega the Unknown 1-9 for $6. 

[Jeff B.]

went to my lcs to just look around, most of the stuff I wanted this week was coming from dcbs so I picked up some odds and ends from the dollar bins:

Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch #s 1,2,3,5
Submariner: The Depths #s 1,2
X-Men #3
Elric: The Making of a Sorcerer (don't know anything about this but it has Walt Simonson art, so I will give it a shot for a buck)
Patsy Walker: Hellcat #s 1,3
Hulk Monster Size Special (with a story by Jeff Parker and art by Gabriel Hardman)
Black Lightning: Year One #s 1,2

[Bill Doughty]

One of the local comic shops had sets of various series for $5 each and they were buy 2 get 1 free, so for $10 I picked up:

Blackhawk 1-3 (the prestige format Chaykin mini)
X-Statix Presents Dead Girl 1-5
X-Men and Micronauts 1-4

I was pretty happy with my finds!

[Dom Sutton]

Hey David and Vince, any chance of pinning this topic? It seems a popular one and is one of my favourites to look at. Would be nice if it were always on the first page.
Cheers

[Bmercier23]

So, I need to tell you guys about the heavenly sale I experienced a couple months ago. I just need to list it all out. Ok, already my LCS is amazing with the discount books. I regulalarly hit their discount sets up because there's some great stuff usually there. Off the top of my head, recently I got the first 10 issues of Ex Machina for $18, all of 1963 for $2, Marvel Apes for $4, The Escapists for $6, first 4 issues of Captain Britain and M.I. 13 for $4 I think, Wolverine/Doop for $2 (tasty Darwyn Cooke art!!!!!) so you get the point. But, they were moving a couple months ago. And needed to clean out their back issues bins because they didnt have as much room in their new building. They did the regular dollar sale box, but they also did this this where you paid 10 dollars, and they gave you a paper bag which you could fill with as much comics as possible. This included their recent back issues boxes. So, I plundered those. Here's the list (prob will forget a few), of eveything I got. I went twice, so remember, this total cost me around 21 dollars.

Logan MAX Mini series (Vaughn and Risso)
The Immortal Iron Fist: Orson Randall and the Death Queen of California One-Shot
The Immortal Iron Fist: The Origin of Danny Rand One-Shot
The Immortal Iron Fist #17
Wolverine: First Class #4, 5, 6 (Van Lente and Salva Espin! Sooooo good!)
Noble Causes #31-34
Dr. Who Classics #s 1 and 3
The Four "Joker's Asylum" one-shots (All of varying quality haha)
Terra Obscura #s 3 and 5
Terra Obscura Vol. 2 #5
American Splendor (Vertigo) #1-2, Vol. 2 #1-2
Cthulhu Tales #3, 4 and 6
X-Men: First Class #11, 13-14
Firebreather #1-3
Invincible # 46 and 52
H-E-R-O Double Feature (Collects first 2 issues of series)
The Brave and the Bold #s 9, 14 and 18
The Lone Ranger and Tonto #1
Superman #677-679
Criminal Vol. 2 #1-2 (Finally read the first issue last night. Damn good stuff).
Project Superpowers #1,3,5
Jack Staff #3-5
Neverwhere #1-3
H.P. Lovecraft's Haunt of Horrors #2 and 3 (Richard Corben goodness!)
The Loners #2-4, 6
Brit #1-7
The Astounding Wolf-Man #3, 5, 6
Amazing Spider-Man EXTRA #1
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (35 though really - the Jackpot one)
Amazing Spider-Man #547-55, 558-561, 564, 567-571, 573
Marvel Comics Presents #1,2,4-6, 8, 10, 12
The Order #2 and 6 (Oh my god y'all, I'm punching a bear!)
Tomorrow Stories #12 (Hilarious and delicious Rick Veitch and Kevin Nowlan art)
Tom Strong's Terrific Tales # 8 and 11 (Great stuff, drool-worthy Art Adams art, also one issue has Bruce Timm drawing a tribe of jungle ladies.  )
Guardians of the Galaxy (collects first 2 issues of the series, made me realize I need to read this book!)
Street Angel #1
Echo #1-2,4-5 (Terry Moore!!!)
The Pact #2
Avengers Fairy Tales #1,2 and 4 (great looking stuff in all of these, especially dug the Peter Pan issue)
Amazing Spider-Girl #22, 23
Tom Strong #27
Savage Dragon #139
The Adventures of Spawn #1
Casonova #3-9
Edit: Woops, forgot some haha!
Hercules/Hulk: When Titans Clash One-Shot
Mouseguard #4
The Last issue of Dan Slott's She-Hulk run
And for my lil' bro (really for me haha):
DC Super Friends #8
Marvel Adventures Superheroes #1 and 2 (Hilarious)
Marvel Adventures Avengers #27 and 29 (even funnier, Iron Man and Capt. beat up spammers)
Marvel Adventires Spider-Man #43

Yeah, it's amazing because I haven't gotten through reading all that! Not to mention the other amazing sales they have - I have copious amounts of back issues that need to be READ!

Jealous?

[Dom Sutton]

that's a pretty incredible haul for $21. Congrats!

[bryanb]

Damn. Nice haul for 21 bucks. Color me jealous. Have some karma Bmercier23.

[Skaboss307]

Yeah, it's amazing because I haven't gotten through reading all that! Not to mention the other amazing sales they have - I have copious amounts of back issues that need to be READ!

Jealous?

Yup.  Dang that's a lot of books.

[Bmercier23]

Haha I know I just gloated a few days ago, but my comic shop is amazing, and I just got back from another great sale.

Got Flash: Blood Will Run TPB for $5
X-Men: First Class: Blood Brothers (COLONS!) for $5
and Age of the Sentry #1, 2, and 4 for a dollar each.

Total basically 14 dollars. Again, love my comic shop. Nice.

[Sean M.]

A History of Violence- (John Wagner/ Vince Locke- Vertigo)- This is the book that Cronenberg based the movie on- got it in the ex-catalogue sale at my local library for 25 pence. My library rules (I picked up Smoke/ Punisher-Deadpool a couple of weeks ago for the same price) 
 

[Skaboss307]

Hit Book Warehouse in No. Conway, NH today on a Mom's Day outlet shopping sojourn and picked up a slug of :01 books for $3.99 and $2.99 each -- among them Black Diamond Detective Agency, American Born Chinese, and Notes on a War -- passed up a book about Kirby & Lee (Tale to Astonish -- anyone read it?) -- and landed that sweet Marvel Vault with all of those recreations of sketches and greeting cards and memos  for $15.

Oh, and because I'm a teacher, I got a swell 15% discount to boot.

[ryankingsmith]

earlier this year, i picked up the first 16 or 17 issues of brian wood's dmz for 50 cents a piece, which is a wonderful series with a bright future. i also picked up the 'avengers disassembled' trade for a couple bucks at the same place. i'm actually headed back over there today as on free comic book day, my local shop gave out a coupon for 10 free books from the bins.

color me excited...

  (is this supposed to be arseface from preacher?)

[Dom Sutton]

Two good charity shop (thrift store) finds today:

Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman which reprints TONS of Herriman's daily and Sunday strips going right back to 1912! 223 pages and a real treat from an artist who I had heard of, but never taken the time to check out before. Got a feeling my two-year-old son is going to love this book in a year or two.

Bye Bye Birdie by Shirley Hughes I was amazed to find this as it was only released last month. The copy I found has a press release in the back, so it's clearly a review copy that someone decided they didn't want. Anyway, wow! Hughes is an 82-year-old lady from Liverpool who has been writing and illustrating children's books for many, many years. Now, at this late age, she's decided to turn her hand to graphic storytelling for adults and the result is well worth a look. Bye Bye Birdie is the story of an Edwardian looking man who meets a mysterious woman, who subsequently turns into a vicious man-eating bird! It has no words, but that doesn't matter. It looks beautiful + there's no real reason why children shouldn't love it too. Well worth a look.

I got both books for 50p each. Absolute steal. In fact since it was a charity shop I insisted they take £1 a piece.
God, I love looking for second hand comics!

[Jo-El]

I was in an LCS in the area (Omaha), and checked the quarter bin, which I usually skip... Actually, I rarely go to this store in the first place.  Anyway, I took a look and found 45 issues of the Fantastic Four from the 80's Byrne run!  I had a few of these, but I scooped them all up for like $12 bucks.  I went Online and bought the other 23 of the Byrne issues from mycomicshop.com, and now own the entire Byrne FF era! (Issues 232-293)

So now I suppose I've got to get these things bound...

[Dom Sutton]

I was in an LCS in the area (Omaha), and checked the quarter bin, which I usually skip... Actually, I rarely go to this store in the first place.  Anyway, I took a look and found 45 issues of the Fantastic Four from the 80's Byrne run!  I had a few of these, but I scooped them all up for like $12 bucks.  I went Online and bought the other 23 of the Byrne issues from mycomicshop.com, and now own the entire Byrne FF era! (Issues 232-293)

So now I suppose I've got to get these things bound...

great stuff! That's a wonderful run (stating the obvious I know, but worth saying anyway). Nice find.

[Bmercier23]

I was in an LCS in the area (Omaha), and checked the quarter bin, which I usually skip... Actually, I rarely go to this store in the first place.  Anyway, I took a look and found 45 issues of the Fantastic Four from the 80's Byrne run!  I had a few of these, but I scooped them all up for like $12 bucks.  I went Online and bought the other 23 of the Byrne issues from mycomicshop.com, and now own the entire Byrne FF era! (Issues 232-293)

So now I suppose I've got to get these things bound...

Fantastic, man! That's an amazing find. Karma!

[Jeff B.]

picked up the following out of the dollar bins today:

Camelot 3000 #s 1,2,3,5,8-12
Spider-Man 2099 #1
Bombast #1
Cloak and Dagger 1,2,4
Empire #2 (don't know much about this but it was written by Mark Waid with art by Barry Kitson so I took a shot)
Patsy Walker: Hellcat #4

[Bill Doughty]

Hit Book Warehouse in No. Conway, NH today on a Mom's Day outlet shopping sojourn and picked up a slug of :01 books for $3.99 and $2.99 each -- among them Black Diamond Detective Agency, American Born Chinese, and Notes on a War -- passed up a book about Kirby & Lee (Tale to Astonish -- anyone read it?) -- and landed that sweet Marvel Vault with all of those recreations of sketches and greeting cards and memos  for $15.

I picked up Black Diamond Detective Agency and Fate of the Artist from that same store over Memorial Day.  Sigh... I love Book Warehouse.  I wish the one in the Wrentham, MA, outlets hadn't closed.