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« Reply #20 on: 07:01 PM | Sunday, January 11, 2009 » |
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50-cent bin finds from yesterday....
* Kabuki v1 #1 (Nov '94)
* Kabuki: Dance of Death #1 (Jan '95)
* Kabuki Circle of Blood #1-4 (Jan-July '95)
Wow! I had only ever read Kabuki in trades before (I didn't discover it until 2001 or so....) To find the original issues (including the 1st appearance) in a bargain bin (and in superb shape) was really a treat!
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« Reply #21 on: 07:01 PM | Sunday, January 11, 2009 » |
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Torpedo Comics is currently running a sales in their 99 cent "Monolith" section so that all those books are 79 cents: https://www.torpedocomics.com/category.php?Category=MONOLITH and shipping is free in the US if you spend $15. I have bought from these guys a number of times, and they give pretty good service. I've used them once to pick up a BUNCH of Jonny Quest comics, Jade Jezebel, and Classic Quest. Arrived in great shape. |
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« Reply #22 on: 07:01 PM | Sunday, January 11, 2009 » |
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Brought a few cheap trades in London yesterday. This was my Haul:
X-O Manowar: Birth (Sealed Hardback) £5.00
How To Self Publish TPB £2.00
Drain Volume 1 £4.00
Superman: Exile £1.99
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Sean M.
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« Reply #23 on: 11:01 AM | Sunday, January 18, 2009 » |
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My local library was dumping/ selling off some trades- So I got Y- The Last Man- Volume 5 [I've already got volumes 1 & 2] Fables- Volume 5 [my first taste of Fables] The DC Universe Stories of Alan Moore [I'd borrowed this myself before as it's got "For the man who has Everything" in it with sweeeeet Dave Gibbons art] Rogue Trooper- Volume 1 [more sweeeeeet Dave Gibbons Art.] Total cost? £1.00- 25p per trade. Best. Buys. Ever.  |
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« Reply #24 on: 04:01 PM | Sunday, January 18, 2009 » |
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Thats a good haul!
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« Reply #25 on: 05:01 PM | Tuesday, January 20, 2009 » |
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I just bought Paul Moves Out HC for $4.50. I've read very few Drawn & Quarterly Books so I'll have to see how this goes.
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« Reply #26 on: 07:02 PM | Saturday, February 14, 2009 » |
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Just bought Best American Comics 2006 HC for about $6.40 today. Gotta love the first story in there that's like stick figures.
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« Reply #27 on: 07:03 PM | Monday, March 16, 2009 » |
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One of the stores near my house just bought a big collection and had a ton of great 50 cent and quarter books. For a quarter, I got the Englehart/Rogers Madame Xanadu one-shot and 3 issues of Micronauts I needed. For 50 cents, I got 4 of those Best of DC Digests from the early 80s, and I never see those in this good a condition nor this cheap on the rare occasions they turn up. There was a Brave and the Bold one, a Christmas with the Super-Heroes, and two Sugar & Spike issues (these were the picks of the litter, as far as I was concerned). Score! And thanks to a 40% off coupon and a gift card I lucked into, I paid a buck out-of-pocket for the Mouse Guard trade. Double score!  |
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« Reply #28 on: 02:03 AM | Tuesday, March 17, 2009 » |
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On my latest trip to Half Price Books I found...
All four volumes of Seven Sodiers
the first three volumes of the Robinson/ Goyer/ Johns JSA run
Granted, I still spent a fair chunk of change, but 60 bucks for 7 trades is pretty good. and I had a 15% off coupon, so that knocked it down to around $50.
I need to start limiting my trips to HPB. It's two minutes away from my house so I usually end up going there two or three times a week to see if they have anything new, even thought I have piles of unread trades and single issues. It's a sickness I tell you!!
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« Reply #30 on: 02:03 PM | Tuesday, March 17, 2009 » |
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what I find is its easy for idiots to make stupid laws as long as it does not affect them or there profits personally sad but true
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« Reply #31 on: 06:05 AM | Monday, May 04, 2009 » |
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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. Here are a few of my favourite covers (there's a chin-cupping theme going on with the first three. Thoughtful SF I suppose)     Anyway, I love finding stuff like this in the wild (as opposed to on ebay) shame the guy didn't have any of the Street and Smith detective pulps. Would've been nice to get hold of some Shadow or Doc Savage. Can't have it all though. |
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« Reply #32 on: 09:05 AM | Monday, May 04, 2009 » |
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Awesome find! I can't believe you got the ""Martians, Go Home' issue (with the famous Kelly Freas cover) at that price. I'm jealous.
Hmmm... figures on three of those four covers have their hand on their chin, in thought. Was that Astounding's way of conveying they were a thinking man's SF magazine?
Jim
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« Reply #33 on: 09:05 AM | Monday, May 04, 2009 » |
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I have bought so many books out of the cheap bins, but I think that the best find I have ever had was a copy of the first Miracle Man trade in really great condition for .......(wait for it).......$1! I definitely got very lucky with that find. I found it at my local Half Price Books and I doubt that they knew what they had there.
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« Reply #34 on: 11:05 AM | Monday, May 04, 2009 » |
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Hi Jim. Yeah I was buzzed to find them. There are more + lots of Analog. The really exciting thing is that the guy who sold them to me says he has more which he will bring for me next week. Roll on Sunday.
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« Reply #35 on: 01:05 PM | Monday, May 04, 2009 » |
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Hi Jim. Yeah I was buzzed to find them. There are more + lots of Analog. The really exciting thing is that the guy who sold them to me says he has more which he will bring for me next week. Roll on Sunday.
As a kid, I stumbled across a huge pile of old Starlogs, Astoundings and Issac Asimov's digest anthology in the labyrinthine passageways of the "King of Rome" bookstore. I can't remember what he charged for them, but it couldn't have been more than 50 cents apiece. I think they were all from the late '50s and throughout the '60s. Great memory. Sadly, I don't have any of them now.  |
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« Reply #36 on: 01:05 PM | Monday, May 04, 2009 » |
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only thing I can think of that counts as a deal lately is my DD omnibus I got on ebay for $20 shipped  |
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Dom Sutton
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« Reply #37 on: 01:05 PM | Monday, May 04, 2009 » |
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Sadly, I don't have any of them now. Go try and find them again! You'll enjoy the hunt. I know we're all meant to be getting away from the collector mentality, but there's something very satisfying and therapeutic about rifling through boxes of old tat for hidden gems. |
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« Reply #38 on: 02:05 PM | Monday, May 04, 2009 » |
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I found a really decent copy of Batman 101 at a thrift store a few years ago. It was marked $30.00 but blue price tags were 1/2 off that day. I'm ususally not one for spending over $5.00 for a back issue but I figured I would not have the oppertunity to buy another copy of 101 at any price very soon.
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zack kruse
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« Reply #39 on: 03:05 PM | Monday, May 04, 2009 » |
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My haul here was $65 and some change. I'm so excited to read through all of it. My Blue Beetle #1 for $20 and my Daredevil #181 for $5 were my some of my best finds. Both books were in astonishingly good condition |
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