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Post by wundagoreborn on Feb 7, 2013 8:29:21 GMT -5
So I wandered from the homey environs of my friendly neighborhood LCS yesterday, and visited a shop across town that I don't get to much. Found myself pawing through a box marked "Silver Age DC & Marvel - $3"
After flipping past lots of ancient Superman, my eyes popped. Avengers 59 - "His Name is...Yellowjacket." Flip, flip, flip. OMG.
Avengers 19 - "The Coming of... The Swordsman!"
Obviously, these things are as raggedy as the price suggests, but still I am super PSYCHED. I never had anything earlier than the 100s before.
Anybody else make any cool Classic Avengers finds lately?
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Post by tomspasic on Feb 7, 2013 8:47:24 GMT -5
I envy you. My town barely has a comic book store any more, and the one second hand book store that sells back issues at all is too pricey for me to even look in any more.
I'd love to have #19, no matter how raggedy.
Congratulations, and I hope you find even more gems.
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Post by wundagoreborn on Feb 7, 2013 15:48:01 GMT -5
Thanks!
I appreciate that I'm lucky and am very grateful. Greater Baltimore is a Happy Hunting Ground for comics. My neighborhood store is amazing and if I get itchy I'm a reasonable drive from 6 more of varying quality. Plus 2 used book shops that have a shelf of reasonably priced trades. It is an embarrassment of riches.
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Post by humanbelly on Feb 7, 2013 21:39:21 GMT -5
Thanks! I appreciate that I'm lucky and am very grateful. Greater Baltimore is a Happy Hunting Ground for comics. My neighborhood store is amazing and if I get itchy I'm a reasonable drive from 6 more of varying quality. Plus 2 used book shops that have a shelf of reasonably priced trades. It is an embarrassment of riches. *SSPFFFFFFTTPTPT!* That's me doing a spit-take. You're in Baltimore?? Dare I ask where this particular store is with its $3 box?? I live in Beltsville, but HBSon goes to Towson University, and we end up in Baltimore a LOT for one reason or another. Just not a lot of back-issue or used book store goodness left down here in the northern DC metro area, I'm afraid. . . Boy, two really good issues to pick up, there, WGB. Each one kind of a key book for later developments and storylines. #59 was truly wrenching for me the first time I read it! And man, the cliffhanger to end them all. . . (well, from a soap-opera perspective. And I suppose even then it could have been heightened by Jan adding, ". . . because I'm carrying his baby!" ;D ;D ;D) HB (ever the eagle-eyed predatory comic-buyer)-- |
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Post by wundagoreborn on Feb 8, 2013 10:49:48 GMT -5
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Post by humanbelly on Feb 8, 2013 13:02:23 GMT -5
Ah, thank you so much. You're a gentleman indeed.
In fact, here, I'm gonna exalt you. . .
HB
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Post by Marvel Boy on Feb 8, 2013 23:39:03 GMT -5
Obviously, these things are as raggedy as the price suggests, but still I am super PSYCHED. I never had anything earlier than the 100s before. Anybody else make any cool Classic Avengers finds lately? As long as the staples are still holding and the covers halfway intact, I'll take raggedy. Cool finds indeed. And for the record, the earliest Avengers issue I own is #33, in raggedy condition, found in a used bookstore many many moons ago. Priceless.  |
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Post by humanbelly on Feb 9, 2013 7:04:30 GMT -5
Obviously, these things are as raggedy as the price suggests, but still I am super PSYCHED. I never had anything earlier than the 100s before. Anybody else make any cool Classic Avengers finds lately? As long as the staples are still holding and the covers halfway intact, I'll take raggedy. Cool finds indeed. And for the record, the earliest Avengers issue I own is #33, in raggedy condition, found in a used bookstore many many moons ago. Priceless. #33-- part of the first Sons of the Serpent trilogy, right? I did not appreciate what a bold step that storyline was when I read it the first time (in the mid-70's). For a long time, #34 was my own oldest issue. HB |
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Post by ultron69 on Feb 18, 2013 16:44:28 GMT -5
Great find! I have an LCS that also has a good slection of dollar comics. Of course, the really cool ones are in poor condition, but I don't care. Heck ,they make great reading copies. I haven't come across any Silver Age Avengers, though!
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Post by humanbelly on Feb 23, 2013 16:57:43 GMT -5
Alrighty, WGB, I made the side-trip up to that shop after dropping HBSon off this afternoon-! Nice friendly, smallish store-- had a spirited MAGIK tournament going on at the time which, even though it was blocking access to about half the store, managed to avoid being obnoxious at all. Kind of charming, if fact.
And yep, found your $3 box. Really a lot of nice little hard-loved gems in there (although VERY heavy on the Superman Cheesy Era end of the scale). I probably could have happily pulled 15 or 20 items, but limited myself to five: Marvel Superheroes #'s 12 &13-- the first two Captain Marvel appearances! Covers are in seriously bad shape, but geeze, when would I EVER have the opportunity to own these two books at all?? CAPTAIN AMERICA #106-- probably worth $3 for the terrific Kirby cover alone. DOOM PATROL #109-- 'cause I'd never miss a chance to pick up an old issue of the DP. And Metal Men #23-- ditto. I daresay that three bucks is just about the right price for these books, given that they're in possibly even fair-minus condition.
What an enjoyable little excursion-! Thanks again for giving me the local heads-up, there, partner--
HB
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Post by wundagoreborn on Feb 26, 2013 14:17:46 GMT -5
Outstanding! Glad you found it.
Especially glad the gaming didn't spoil it. There another shop in Columbia, Comics to Astonish, where I can't figure out why they keep the front door open on MTG days. Every back issue box has a tabletop dropped over it, can't squeeze through the aisles to save you. Nice place when it's not overrun, but wow.
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Post by humanbelly on Mar 2, 2013 18:52:38 GMT -5
Outstanding! Glad you found it. Especially glad the gaming didn't spoil it. There another shop in Columbia, Comics to Astonish, where I can't figure out why they keep the front door open on MTG days. Every back issue box has a tabletop dropped over it, can't squeeze through the aisles to save you. Nice place when it's not overrun, but wow. Why, this place looks to be right around the corner from the Daedalus Books superstore-!. Geeze, that's practically Savage, MD--- where I do a TON of posting from--- Definitely on the Away Mission roster now. HB |
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Post by wundagoreborn on Mar 3, 2013 14:35:44 GMT -5
Yep, if you go to Daedalus, chances are you drive right by it. Don't go on a Saturday.
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Post by ultron69 on Mar 11, 2013 8:59:04 GMT -5
Hey, enough mid-Atlantic talk!
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Post by humanbelly on Mar 11, 2013 20:01:20 GMT -5
Hey, enough mid-Atlantic talk! Oho-- center of th' WERRLD, baby!  (okay, even I don't buy that-- but, what're the odds that we'd find some geographic proximity in our widely-scattered community here, eh? I confess, I'm still enough of a goober to find that kinda cool. Heh-) HB |
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Post by ultron69 on Mar 25, 2013 12:26:07 GMT -5
Oh, I'm a goober too, HB, but I doubt that there are any upstate New Yorkers lurking around here, though I do recall when I introduced myself on these boards, someone mentioned he'd gone to nearby Brockport State U.
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Post by wundagoreborn on Mar 26, 2013 9:28:42 GMT -5
I'm a former NY upstater. Went to grad school at SUNY-Binghamton and lived all over the Southern Tier for 8 years of the 90s.
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Post by ultron69 on Mar 28, 2013 13:30:06 GMT -5
Cool! I had a couple of college buddies from Binghamton. I'm sure you miss shovelling snow!
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Post by kidcage on Apr 28, 2013 23:53:11 GMT -5
Picked up Avengers #6 from a comic shop around the corner two weeks ago for $25. It's a bit beat up, but it now brings down the ones I need from the original run to be #1-5 and 18...
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Post by wundagoreborn on Apr 29, 2013 10:11:58 GMT -5
Sweet! I wish I was that close to a complete volume 1.
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