Hit a show in town today and found a few bargains. Grabbed about 45 books and averaged $1 per. I also missed out on an absolute gold mine of a marketplace sale of 1940s Wonder Woman books. Kicking myself.
Show grab highlights:
7 Likes
I see some heat! Lovely! Sorry you missed out on the FB Marketplace items tho.
record store finds. most were a $1. Batmans were $2-3 expect for the #6, $18 in VFN/NM
love the Popeye book. don’t know much about Crossed except that it was optioned but it looks violent as hell.
this one was cool for $1
9 Likes
Picked up some books from a collection today. Messaged a seller on Facebook that had a short box of Indy books for $125. Drove over because it was by my office. Went through the box of 125 comics and couldn’t really justify the purchase. They said they had four more boxes of comics I could pick through. Ended up pulling 30 comics out of the boxes, some neat stuff, but the most interesting was two early copies of Spoof Comics #1 (Spider-Femme) with cover by Adam Hughes. They sell for $20-25 each. I missed out on getting one recently so was glad I ended up with two. Also got a Fawcet Comics Dennis the Menace #1 from 1969 (near but worthless) and a Golden Age Pine Classics Knighrs of the Round Table #10 (from 1957) and some other cool books.
1 Like
Hitting Baltimore CC this weekend ?
Nah. Traveling with my son for baseball. He has a tournament. I kinda wish I was going but looks like 1 more year until my return
Want to know something I do every time I visit a Goodwill store? I visit the kid’s book section and I get the Little Golden books that are on the top shelves and put them on the lowest shelf. Let’s help put books our little ones can easily read within reach!
Ok. This PSA is over 
5 Likes
It’s funny the little things we do that matter to us.
I’m a stickler for saying thank you when someone holds a door open for you. At a restaurant last night, I held the door for 5 people, and only 1 said thank you. I wanted to key their cars.
3 Likes
I have a personal project I’m working on and have been wanting to get off the ground since 2018. I need to start this month. This goes in hand with what are you are mentioning @Joe
My wife volunteers at a used book store.
She came back this afternoon and told me there are new comics in a container. (Not unusual, but never pans out for me in the past).
But this time, there was this amongst about 30 comics.
It’s good to have someone on the inside looking after me.
$0.50 
I’ll send this off to my presser. There’s staining on bottom and some non color breaking creases.
12 Likes
Wow, very nice
1 Like
I hit an auction a few weeks back with hundreds of lots of comics. Almost all modern stuff, but the prices were fantastic. If this was local and I didn’t have to pay shipping, I would have probably bought 1000 books. As it was, I still was over 200. The raw stuff was all in the $.80-$2 range per book after shipping (which nearly doubled the cost).
Tons of exclusives from titles I really liked, but sure as hell wasn’t going to pay $30 a book when they came out a few years back. But, to get them for $1-2? Cool.
Here are just a few:
Graded books weren’t $1, but were cheap. For example, the graded 9.8 #9 is signed by JT4 and Simmonds and was $54. Showed up cracked, so they deducted the cost. Book is still undamaged, so I’ll get that reslabbed.
Somebody spent just absolute tons of cash, and got pennies on the dollar for a return with this HUGE collection. There were some big boy books, but they were way out of my price range. I think people that bought those got absolute scores, but without seeing the book in person, I couldn’t go for any bigger books.
7 Likes
Was it for sale on a specific estate website? How random.
1 Like
Yep. An online auction in Las Vegas. Something like 1500 lots. Some were a single graded book. Most were groups of 24 random books. But you saw what books you’d be getting. Just a random thing that I stumbled upon.
2 Likes
I saw that estate sale but passed because I couldn’t get a straight answer about shipping.
You mentioned shipping was as much as the cost of the books. Was shipping based on weight? Or number of books you bought? And was the price a little bit inflated or pretty reasonable?
Shipping was not cheap. I think they just went by weight, then tacked on like $20 for the effort. I think they hire a third party shipper, so they charge a fee. I mean, the books were still cheap even with that.
I will say that they were not packed well. I have no idea how, but the books arrived in flawless condition. 99% were NM or better. But, that was a surprise, as there was virtually no packing material. Just books in a box. And, the one slab was broken en route. But, everything else was perfect.
2 Likes
I’m in Vegas, and it may have been Nellis Auctions
$3.29 pick up at Goodwill. It has been out since 1/9 so no one bought it in 2 days.
I almost picked up Marvels (book 3) but sat down and read it in the store instead.
Tons of Manga but nothing i read.
3 Likes
Mentioned wife volunteers in a used book store as a sorter of donated books.
Few weeks ago got a tip from within, that comics just went up for sale in the store. Got a Batman 612 2nd print Jim Lee on that tip. $0.50.
Today another collection went up. All Little Lulu Dell Giants & Little Lulu comic title. About 30 books. Got an insider tip that comics just got put up in store for sale today.
Hopped in the car. Went in.
Grabbed em all for $0.50 each.
These are the best 3 of 30.
Not very desirable, but they do carry nice value.
Its good having a tip line within a used book store.
Ill always be the 1st in 
9 Likes