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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 23:18:13 GMT -5
I flipped through the short box, and the book I snagged out of it was an otherwise G/VG copy of Marvel Special Edition 16, the second Shang Chi appearance. I can deal with the black X on the cover for a dime. My dollar-bin find of #15 maybe 4 years ago was the first thing I thought of when I saw the thread title. |
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Post by travishedgecoke on Jul 17, 2014 23:21:01 GMT -5
I found incredibly jacked up copies of the middle-Stan-Jack-run Fantastic Four in the cover price bin, when I was a kid. Black Panther, Wyatt, and one awesome crowd shot cover all kinda changed my life and they were twelve cents apiece.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 23:30:20 GMT -5
Yeah there's a lot of good stuff to be found. I know a couple of dealers around here who like to seed their dollar boxes with stuff like that...low grade keys, former hot books they have a lot of copies of, etc. It serves a couple of purposes-customers who find them feel ike they got one over and feel good about their finds, so spend more money overall thinking they got a bargain, and 2) word gets out that these kinds of finds are in the boxes and more people come a hunting through them. Net result is more traffic and more books sold for them, more than making up for any loss they might take on the book. Then there's the dude with 40K dollar books. Last time I talked to him about selling him some books (this was when I was looking to move my copy of Iron Man 55 just before the Avengers movie hit), he basically told me he still has long boxes of stuff from 1979 onwards that are essentially unsold copies he bought from the distributor or just about every major Marvel and DC title from '79 to about '95 (he changed his practices during the speculator crash to stay in business) when he would order 40-50 extra copies of everything for store stock, so he doesn't buy anything for the store that was published after 1980 regardless of price or demand, because he still has copes he got at cost to sell. Once every couple of years he takes a bunch out and puts them out for dirt cheap prices on special anniversary sales and what not, and anything left over goes into those 40K worth of dollar comics. He's sold out of some of the books obviously, but last time he did the special sale he was puling out copies of Claremont/Byrne X-Men and priced them at $5 a pop. Sadly since he paid distributor prices on those in the late 70s/early 80's, his return on investment was still pretty high.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 23:35:28 GMT -5
Not quite a dollar bin, but there's one dealer who sporadically shows up at local cons who does all Silver/Bronze for $5. He has a wall of keys priced to market and everything else in the longboxes is $5. Last show I saw him at was Gem City this past April, but I didn't find him until an hour before the show closed the last day and I only had $15 left in cash. Still netted me 3 Conan issues I needed including a #14 in F/VF at $5 each.
At Stebbins con another dealer had $3 boxes of stuff, I picked up a bunch from him, and almost pulled the trigger on a Green Lantern #3 that was in the box, but it was in Poor, it's cover was torn, missing chunks, and only hanging on by half of one staple, but it was $4 for a GL #3. I grabbed a bunch of Kubert DC war books instead, but I was tempted. There are bargains out there if you are patient and willing to look.
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jul 18, 2014 0:04:57 GMT -5
Due to the severe lack of shops/stores in my immediate area, I do not get the opportunity to bargain bin hunt as often as I would like so most of my bargains have been ebay steals...
Most recent would have to be copies of Batman #357 an X-Factor #5 that I paid $15 and flipped for $45. That $45 was then well spent on some books I wanted, which is generally how I like to operate.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 18, 2014 5:33:57 GMT -5
Not from an actual dollar bin, but close: I bought a Conan the barbarian lot (25-50) for 25$ from my LCS in the 90s, and although most of those issues aren't worth much more than the average dollar I paid for them, such is not the case for issue 37, the Neal Adams one.
I never found a very valuable book in dollar bins; the best deal I got (but what a deal it was) was from the same LCS, after the people there had bought a massive lot of books at some local auction. They had taken the best stuff, naturally, and had a big sale to empty the store of all those less-valuable issues... Including years and years of Valiant comics. I walked away with two long boxes full of Archer & Armstrong (complete run), X-O Manowar, Magnus, Rai, Eternal warrior, Solar and more... It weighed a ton (I had to walk 5 km, with frequent stops, to get home) but at 10 cents a pop it was definitely worth it. Heck, the total price I paid would have been fair even if the boxes had been empty!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 18, 2014 7:04:44 GMT -5
Probably this little gem. I don't know or care how much it's worth but it has a sneak peak of The Night Force plus it's a solid Teen Titans issue.  It's also the first cameo appearance of the Monitor, isn't it? Plus, it's the first appearance of Brother Blood, as well as the unofficial start to the Judas Contract, laying the early seeds of all that would transpire by the close. A darn worthwhile issue to have. The first 50 issues of New Teen Titans were terrific. |
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Post by fanboystranger on Jul 18, 2014 7:11:33 GMT -5
For me, it was a complete run of the original Xombi series and the first $40 issues of L.E.G.I.O.N. Graham Cracker Comics in Chicago does a great job of stocking their quarter bins with comics you'd actually want to read instead of '90s Image overstock. Recently, I've picked up the BWS Archer and Armstrong issues that come after the First Impressions HC (8-12), Sister of Steel 2-7, another full run of John Smith's Scarab mini, the first 4 issue Nathaniel Dusk series, the complete run of Giffen/Fleming's Eclipso, 1-5 and Annual 1 of the Truman/Ostrander Hawkworld ongoing, and a bunch of issues of the '90s Fate and Book of Fate series, both of which are much better than most people give them credit for. None of these books have any real value, but they are worth reading.
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Post by DubipR on Jul 18, 2014 8:09:53 GMT -5
I paid $5 for twenty-five issues of the Kitchen Sink The Spirit. Opened them all up...all signed by Eisner.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 8:40:21 GMT -5
For me, it was a complete run of the original Xombi series . I'm still trying to find cheap copies of #s 13 & 19. |
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Post by The Captain on Jul 18, 2014 9:17:42 GMT -5
Not at an LCS, but I bought a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #150 at a church flea market for $.50. A little old lady had a stack of books on her table, most of them just random and uninteresting (to me, at least) issues of series from the late '70s/early '80s, but this was in the pile as well; a little sign on top of the books read "$.50 each". The books had been her husband's, and he had passed away the previous year, so she was using this flea market as a way to clean some things out of her house.
I offered her $5 for it, but she said "My husband loved his books and would want this to go to someone who'll appreciate it, and by you offering me more money for it, it shows you obviously will." I couldn't convince her to take more than the $.50, so I gave up and thanked her for the book, which is in at least F+ shape.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 9:20:08 GMT -5
Not at an LCS, but I bought a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #150 at a church flea market for $.50. A little old lady had a stack of books on her table, most of them just random and uninteresting (to me, at least) issues of series from the late '70s/early '80s, but this was in the pile as well; a little sign on top of the books read "$.50 each". The books had been her husband's, and he had passed away the previous year, so she was using this flea market as a way to clean some things out of her house. I offered her $5 for it, but she said "My husband loved his books and would want this to go to someone who'll appreciate it, and by you offering me more money for it, it shows you obviously will." I couldn't convince her to take more than the $.50, so I gave up and thanked her for the book, which is in at least F+ shape. The Speculator Squad will be contacting you shortly for information on her identity, then seek her out & terminate her with extreme prejudice. |
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Post by paulie on Jul 18, 2014 9:27:34 GMT -5
I got my Swamp Thing 37 in about 8.0 at a yard sale for a dime three years ago. That's right... a dime. And at the same yard sale I got Fables #1 for the same price.
I need to get that 37 pressed which could... could... bump it up to an 8.5.
Oh Lucky Day!
I got most of my Kull ala Severins at a local flea market for a quarter each. Not NMs but still solid, clean, copies.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 9:40:52 GMT -5
I paid $5 for twenty-five issues of the Kitchen Sink The Spirit. Opened them all up...all signed by Eisner.
Can't beat that  |
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Post by Pharozonk on Jul 18, 2014 10:36:19 GMT -5
Green Lantern #1(1990) for $0.25
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