One of my favourite things to do is go up to my local goodwill and try to find hidden gems.
I thought it would be cool to have a place where we could show off the good deals we find, so good luck and post post away!
One of my favourite things to do is go up to my local goodwill and try to find hidden gems.
I thought it would be cool to have a place where we could show off the good deals we find, so good luck and post post away!
Last edited by canadianaidan64; 07-21-2014 at 03:40 PM.
Here's my latest haul:
Superheroes and philosophy
The great pulp heroes
Bone: The adventure begins
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Price paid: $4
I love to do the same. If I pass a garage sale or a used book store I'll usually stop by just to see if they have any comics for sale. The only thing of note was a pretty good copy of X-Men: Supernovas OHC for ten bucks.
I stopped at a garage sale the other month and bought a savage sword near complete run of issue 75 to 235 . With many doubles about 350 comics all together and paid 75 bucks . Kept what I needed gave a few away and sold a run from 125 to 235 for what I paid for them . That's about the only time I have come across a super deal .
Found this while digging through some 50-cent boxes at my LCS last week:
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World's Finest Comics # 276 (February, 1982). Not a high-grade copy, but perfectly fine as a "reader."
I'm currently trying to collect all the "Dollar Comics" issues of WFC. Only eight to go.
10 years ago, Superman #75, mint condition (I felt so much like the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons typing that last bit). What makes it more impressive was that it was the exact issue I was looking for (I didn't actually know there were specialised comic book stores back then, the owner of the shop told me about it when I bought the issue [along with The Death and Return of Superman novel by Roger Stern]).
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I bought a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #150 at a church flea market for $.50 about a decade ago. A little old lady had a stack of books on her table with a sign on top that read "$.50 each". I offered her $5 for it (it was booking at the time for at least $20), but she said they were her late husband's books that he loved and he would have wanted it to go to someone who appreciated it, which I obviously would because I offered her more for it. I didn't argue with her long, gave her two quarters, and walked out of that basement a very happy man.
I picked up Omnibus: Evolutionary War from Value Village (I think elsewhere it's also called Savers?) for cheap. I think it was $15 or so, but my wife works there, so I got Family Discount (50% off!)
My regret is that they also had several volumes of Walt Simonson's Thor, and I didn't also pick those up.
Great thread. I think for a lot of us, this is the hope/dream whenever we walk into some random non-comic bookstore, that they'll have some long OOP omnibus or something, which they don't know the value of. I think those days are dwindling, as with the internet, everyone can see the approximate value of something, via Amazon, Ebay, etc...
While it's possible you could walk into a used bookstore and find the X-Men SA omnibus vol. 1 for $20, it's highly unlikely. But it's still exciting to think about the possibilities. ;-)
Even in LCS' I find myself scurrying about, hoping upon hope they have some OOP book clearanced or listed at cover, and for me at least, that never happens.
"Boomerang arrow, Kate... It comes back to you in the end. Boomerang. Respect it." - Clint
"Why the hell do you need an arrow that comes back to you after you shoot it, Clint?" - Kate
"Because... Boomerangs." - Clint.
Today I found a used copy of the elusive and expensive Absolute Promethea Book One and other than two blemishes on the slipcase (a one inch bubble and a 3 inch ripple), it's in perfect shape. I hadn't been to this tiny LCS before and was blown away when I realized that it had a $50 off sticker on the bottom! I walked out the new owner for just $52.50. I didn't think I'd own this volume until it was reprinted and goes down as the best deal ever, beating out an Amazing Spider-Man Volume 2 Omnibus signed by Stan Lee that I got for $90! Got to get volumes two and three now.
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The other day, at my local Half Price Books, I managed to pick up the first seven volumes of Eric Powell's The Goon. That might have been the highlight of that weekend.
Half Price Books own. 2/3rds of my collection came from there. We've got 3 here in Indianapolis and 1 will have more recent and another will have a lot of 616 and silver and another has a mix of the two. 2 months ago I got a VN Secret War #8 for 20 bucks.
Beefing up the old home security, huh?You bet yer ass.
Got this in a second hand store for 50 cents.
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Guy Gardner's first appearance in Green Lantern #59 (March, 1968).