Your Best comic find?

[Eslamm]

Love this conversation! Jealous of some of the great finds folks have scored.

There is a local shop that I hit up every so often and they have few boxes of super cheap books with stuff like The Bozz Chronicles, Ultraverse, et al. Spent about 45 minutes going through them and found the following:
Robotech II The Sentinels #13 (Spawn preview) for .79 and sold it for $56
Robotech II The Sentinels #11 (Evil Ernie preview) for .79 and sold it for $19

Same place also had:
Run of Over the Garden Wall (Kaboom!) 4-19 all subscription variants for $30, sold most of them off for between $13-$40 each
Bee and Puppycat #5 (Kaboom!) #5 for $2, sold that for $25
Butterfly #1-#4 for $10, which I then sold for $45

Love digging through boxes of comics to find treasures…

[Bill]

Been following this and I am particularly keen on hearing about Yard Sale/Garage Sale killings since that where mine have been as well.

My question is has anyone gotten a major hit at a Yard Sale/Garage sale in the last 2 - 3 years? I find nothing anymore… literally nothing for a buck or two anymore. Everyone seems to know what they have and yea they may significantly discount, but no more killings for me. 25 years worth of incredible hits, but nothing in the last 2 - 3 years.

[Ottooctavious]

I found a spiderman #1 mcfarlane blue lizard copy which u still have for abou $2…again in the 90s

And a Scud the disposable assassin #9 1st action figure civer ever…for 60 cents during lockdown…love finding stuff like ile this

[Bourbon_and_Comics]

Hey all! Long time lurker, first time poster. I was just given 20 long boxes by a friend and I have been working my way through them. Some 1970s comics but mostly late 80s/early 90s. I’ve found a bunch of keys and cool covers (in various condition) so I’m counting this definitely as a best comic find! I’m debating whether to try to sell the lot to get rid of the chaff or to hold the good stuff for my personal collection and risk not being able to sell the rest. Any advice is welcome.

Wolverine 1-4
Early Avengers comics in rough shape but also Avengers Annual #7 & #10
Infinity Gauntlet 1-6
Marvels 1-4
DC vs Marvel crossovers
Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 1-12
New Mutants early issues from #1 onward, including Annual #2 (Legion, Demon Bear)
Sensational She-Hulk #1, #34, #39, #40
Marvel Fanfare 1-20
Marvel Team-up run, including #141
West Coast Avengers run
Incredible Hulk Future Imperfect
Moon Knight #57
Wolverine #88
Frank Miller Daredevil run plus Man Without Fear mini
What If? including #1 (Spidey joins FF), #10 (Jane Foster becomes Thor), #105 (Spider-girl - newsstand version)
Continuous run of X-Men including Brood saga, Hellfire Club, Phoenix, Days of Future Past
First appearances of: Binary, Red Guardian, Photon, Nebula, Apocalypse, Kitty Pryde, Jubilee, Dazzler, Black Cat, Deadpool, Cable, Elektra, Mockingbird, Cloak & Dagger, Venom, Carnage, Hobgoblin, Madame Web, Silver Sable, Jocasta, White Vision, Taskmaster, Danny Ketch, Throg, Council of Kangs, Kaine, Domino, Ayesha,
Death of Jean Grey, Death of Elektra
Web of Spider-man #1, Spectacular Spider-man #101, ASM #252
Venom Lethal Protector and other mini-series

plus the usual die-cut, hologram, chromium, etc. covers.

Also some DC and a bunch of early Image and early Valiant stuff

[myrontay]

Best “find” of all would be gifts since the outlay is zero. Congrats!

[Devildog]

Gratz on the haul and glad you are here.

My thoughts on this stuff has been really changing of late.
If it were me, I would pick out the stuff I really love or want as part of my pc first. Then I would pick out anything that could be a very good flip (or graded flip) or down the line spec hold. I would be very selective with those statements though. You can end up keeping everything if you play it too loose.

After that, I would sell it all, even at a pretty good discount if possible and buy something I really, really wanted. Even if it means unloading them at $1, $2, $3 a book and such.

[myrontay]

Oh, re-read what you posted.

I have been in the comic books and original comic art market for the past two decades or so (the bulk of my art portfolio can be found here: Comic Art Gallery of Myron Tay at ComicArtFans.com), and here are the facts:
(i) I have made tons more money in trading original comic art than comic books $-wise. In general, the prices of original comic art have quadrupled in the last two decades or so. My current art portfolio is conservatively in the low six digit range.
(ii) I have made more %-wise from trading in comic books, so much so that I have made back more than the money that I had initially sunk into the comic book portfolio and still have a portfolio worth $8-10k

My thoughts:
(i) In terms of time spent, the $ returns from original comic art makes it more lucrative.
(ii) Storage costs of comic books (especially if slabbed) is much higher than unframed original comic art
(iii) However, my two portfolios are not apple-to-apple comparisons since my outlay on my original comic art portfolio is a lot more than that for my comic book portfolio. While an argument can be made that if I had invested more in comic books, my $ returns for that portfolio might have been significantly. Even so, I had decided to concentrate on my original comic art portfolio as the storage costs involved are lower.

Remember: Tomorrow’s classics are today’s new comics! .

Hence, my advice - sell off the collection of comic books and invest in original comic book art instead!

[agentpoyo]

That’s great an all but what does original art have to do with “best comic finds”?

Let’s not try to derail this topic. It’s about best comic book finds, not original art.

[myrontay]

@myrontay

Hence, my advice - sell off the collection of comic books and invest in original comic book art instead!

Sorry, got carried away and forgot to make explicit my main word of advice (have added it to the original post at the bottom):

Hence, my advice - sell off the collection of comic books and invest in original comic book art instead!

[agentpoyo]

@myrontay

Hence, my advice - sell off the collection of comic books and invest in original comic book art instead!

Maybe start a new topic then if you want. People collect many things for many reasons, not just for investment purposes.

[myrontay]

Sure, I can do that if there is interest in the topic.

[Sporto]

I found someone on Facebook marketplace selling Ultimate Fallout 1-6 and issues 4 and 6 were 1:25 variant. I paid $750 and the Ultimate Fallout 4 came back graded as a 9.6.

Those scarce chase books are out there raw…

[agentpoyo]

@myrontay

I can do that if there is interest in the topic.

Start one, people will contribute if they’re interested.

[Gbess]

@myrontay

Sure, I can do that if there is interest in the topic.

I wouldnt mind knowing the 411 on how the Original Art collection works and where to get the best deals for your $.

[Immunoman]

+1 on this

[UGADavid]

Pretty great finds yesterday at Third Eye in Annapolis for $5 each! Plus, I got to meet @Anthony!

[Anthony]

@UGADavid was nice meeting and picking with you as well. You got most of the good finds.

In case you don’t know that Ghostbusters Taxi Driver homahe that @UGADavid picked up is an absolute ghost of a gem