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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 18:50:30 GMT -5
This could be - a valuable book, hopelessly undervalued by someone who placed it there
- a book you were on the lookout for, regardless of its value
- a book you never knew about until you saw it in a bargain bin, and got your interest piqued in the rest of the series
- any other criteria
I'll post mine if I can snap a pic of it, damn lazy right now....
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 17, 2014 19:03:05 GMT -5
I love bargain bin diving. As I've mentioned before, the first time I ever went to a comic store as a kid, I went through the 25 cent bin and came out with Amazing Adventures #6 (Atlas) and Flash #137 (1st Silver Age JSA). Since then I've found a lot of great stuff in bargain bins. Two copies of Batman Adventures 12 come to mind that I found last year for a total of $3. Earlier this year I got a Marvel Premiere #47 and #48 from a dollar bin. Heck, just last week I found a solid mid-grade Ms. Marvel #1 in a dollar bin. There's nothing quite like the thrill of finding a cool comic in a bargain bin. As for my best comic find in a bargain bin, though... I'm still in the middle of negotiating a sale of it, so I don't want to talk about it just yet. But when everything is done I'll certainly be posting the details here.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 19:30:47 GMT -5
I found a copy of Dell's Lobo #2 in a 4-for-a-dollar box. I'd never heard of the book, the first American comic to have a black lead, but I picked it up out of curiosity. Wish I'd hung on to it; that's a hard series to find.
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Post by Pharozonk on Jul 17, 2014 19:35:57 GMT -5
I love bargain bin diving. As I've mentioned before, the first time I ever went to a comic store as a kid, I went through the 25 cent bin and came out with Amazing Adventures #6 (Atlas) and Flash #137 (1st Silver Age JSA). Since then I've found a lot of great stuff in bargain bins. Two copies of Batman Adventures 12 come to mind that I found last year for a total of $3. Earlier this year I got a Marvel Premiere #47 and #48 from a dollar bin. Heck, just last week I found a solid mid-grade Ms. Marvel #1 in a dollar bin. There's nothing quite like the thrill of finding a cool comic in a bargain bin. As for my best comic find in a bargain bin, though... I'm still in the middle of negotiating a sale of it, so I don't want to talk about it just yet. But when everything is done I'll certainly be posting the details here. Though I'm sure nothing can top NFL Superpro right?  |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 17, 2014 19:38:53 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I've told the story here on a dozen occasions in which an LCS owner I'd befriended used to let me look around in her basement and buy bronze age comics practically at cost. My best find ever was a low grade X-Men #94 for $4.
In actual bargain bins, I've found a lot of comics that were important to me, but the only time I've ever found comics actually worth anything were with Valiant books. These days, when an LCS buys a collection, they often assume anything that wasn't a Pre-Unity Valiant books is effectively worthless. I've found a few very valuable books tossed into bins in this way, including multiple copies of the final issues of X-O Manowar, Shadowman, and Magnus Robot Fighter, a complete set of gold variants of the Deathmate limited series, and a gold dealer incentive Archer & Armstrong #1. None are worth more than $20 a piece, but I'm a big classic Valiant fan, so these were pretty exciting finds for me.
Oh, and I forgot about finding More Fun Comics #74 in a Golden Age bargain bin where everything was $20. It's a very very low grade copy with a chunk of the cover missing, but it's a classic Doctor Fate cover, as well as the 2nd appearance of both Aquaman and Green Arrow.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 19:43:22 GMT -5
Nothing too great I don't think. When I was a kid I found Marvel Team Up #65 in a bargain bin the very same month Wizard Magazine said it would be worth a ton of money. Sold it 15 years later for a dollar.
I have bought a lot of Silverwolf comics out of bargain bins, even signed and sketched. I really liked them as a kid but upon rereading them they are laughably bad. I did get good reads from bins though. A lot of 'Nam and Groo and weird black and white indies.
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 17, 2014 19:44:13 GMT -5
twelve issues of Watchmen for three dollars
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 17, 2014 19:49:40 GMT -5
I found a Warlock #15 for a dollar years ago and last year I picked up a water damaged New Teen Titans #2 ( first Deathstroke) for one dollar.
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Post by Jesse on Jul 17, 2014 20:15:57 GMT -5
- a book you were on the lookout for, regardless of its value
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.  |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 17, 2014 20:32:22 GMT -5
- a book you were on the lookout for, regardless of its value
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. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 17, 2014 20:41:05 GMT -5
Probably the VG copy of the Tales of Asgard Annual from '69 I found in a dollar box a few years back. If not that, then the Detective #359 (1st Batgirl) I got out of a quarter box in the late '80s.
Cei-U!
I summon the bee-yoo-tiful bargains!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 21:49:48 GMT -5
A couple of finds...about three years ago I found a F/VF copy of Avengers Annual 10 in a dollar box down at the shop a couple of towns over that promotes the fact they have over 40K dollar comics available. I found a Teen Titans (1st series 34 in G the same day there.
Just before I moved from CT, my friend Brian at Buried Under Books was trying to get rid of a box of low grade readers that weren't selling, and in frustration he took the entire short box, and put a big X on each in black sharpie and sold them for a dime each. He gave me a kind of first look becaus eI was there helping him out that day helping go through longboxes of stuff he was trying to move out of the shop and into storage, so we were pulling stuff out to keep in the store. 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. There was a lot of other interesting stuff there, but while I was there, a woman from a literacy program came in looking for stuff and he sold her the entire box for $5 and called it a good day.
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Post by dupersuper on Jul 17, 2014 21:59:09 GMT -5
Back in the day I got tonnes of Arion, Arak, Teen Titans, Warlord, Firestorm, Blue Beetle and Blue Devil in quarter bins. A couple years back some one had left a couple dozen or so 90s Star Trek comics in dollar bins. I'm sure there are more specific examples that I've forgotten...I'm always hitting up a huge annual flea market in the summer...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 22:39:26 GMT -5
It wasn't a bargain bin, but once online I bought a magazine sized short box full of magazine sized comics. It was a good variety, I paid 75 cents each and sold several off for $10 or more. Among the ones I kept were Marvel Super Specials, some Warren mags, some Epic Illustrated, Savage Sword Of Conan, National Lampoon and Mad humor mags, Howard The Duck. And as I was reading through my Eerie comics I found one that felt really thick, I thought it must have been a double sized issue. When I opened it up there were actually two comics in the one bag. The one in front was a later issue, the one inside was Eerie #2 |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2014 23:02:47 GMT -5
Our library has a small used book store inside and there is a comic/magazine $1 bin. A year or two ago I found this in it:  Not in the best shape but heck for a dollar I had to have it! I have checked this bin religiously ever since but haven't seen anything as good yet. I also bought a VG ASM #300 at a LCS in Sacramento a few years back for $20. Turned it around for well over $100 recently. |
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