So I went to a local show this weekend and bought a lot of cheap books.
The very first vendor I went to had books for $2 each or 10 for $10. Grabbed these ten books for $1 each. Moras, Batgirl, Tim Drake and Transformers #2 and #4. Can’t believe how much these Moras are going for. So successful dig right out of the bat. Moras still available in the wild for $1.
Next found some RWBYs for cover price. Artgerm and Sarah Stone covers ok.
More dollar books. The Marvel Age are 50 cents each and goes for quite a bit graded cgc 9.8s. The books I’ve gotten so far are perfect 9.8 candidates. I’m completely stoked to find the Jim Lee X-Men Savage Rogue newsstand for $1. It goes for real good money in a cgc 9.8 and I’ve been looking for this for a while. I have a lot of the direct versions but for some reason the newsstand copy is really hard to find in my area. The copy here is absolutely flawless, looks like a 10.0. I just might keep it. I’ve been selling the Werewolf by Night 32 facsimile for $15-$20. Every time I list copies they all sell. Gone through about 10+ copies already at 100% sell through rate.
Next I’m trying to find older key books in real high grade looking to press it and decide if I should send it in for grading. Man-Thing #1, Conan #58, and Agents of Atlas were all $5 each. The Doctor Aphra action figure variant was $3 and the Punisher 218 was $15.
The show was great, I could’ve spent all day there as I found the vendors were blowing out comics at very reasonable and cheap prices. I stopped at one vendor that had a ton of early Tomb of Dracula at very high grades selling them for $5-$20. I was eyeing those but decided to familiarise myself with early bronze age books before I start buying them all up.
So this week I picked up a short box and a half of 80s Green Lantern, Flash, Uncanny X-Men (#150s and up) and a random assortment of comics. I got them off a dealer at their storage facility and was selling them for about $1. I grabbed them because I couldn’t believe how high grade the 80s comics were. It was most likely extra store back stock that were never sold and had stayed in storage for decades. I didn’t pick or chose, just grabbed all the high grade copies and threw them in a box and will sort them out later. There were multiple copies of each, some 10+ copies of same issue. Also in there were Batman Adventures books (no #12 obviously but all the rest). I grabbed the nicest looking ones. Also lots of FCBD stuff that were thrown in for free. I grabbed the Avatar ones and Avatar the last Airbender etc. I paid $247 for the 2 boxes and I’m guessing there’s 200-250+ books in there.
Still more to look through but I recognise Green Lantern #148 first Ch’p (2 copies), Gotham Academy 1, early Frissons, also Instant Piano which is either the first appearance of Eltingville Club or a very early appearance. Was a big book at one point but has come down in price.
Not a bad week. Fun going through some fun 80s comics.
