Today was the 9th anniversary sale at a comic shop in the Columbus area called World's Greatest Comics. It's one of the few almost exclusively comic centered shops in the area as the do not do gaming of any sort, no Magic, no Pokemon, no Clix, no D&D or what have you, no sportscards, just comics and comic-related toys and statues. It's not a shop I get to often (on the far side of Columbus from us it'a about an hour's drive), but I run into Jeff, it's owners at cons quite often (he has a big presence at the Jeff Harper Columbus shows, providing most of the door prizes and is a regular at Gem City Comic Con), and I would hit the shop more often if it were a little closer.

One of the unique things this shop does is that most of its back issue stock (about 90% of stuff that isn't wall books or bargain bin fodder) is marked with either a red dot or a green dot sticker. He prices most books at market price, and they are at that price for a short while in the shop but then get the dot stickers. Red dot stuff is 25% off and green dot is 50% off the sticker price, so most of the stuff actually costs less than market. He also rotates dollar bin stock in form his overstock warehouse regularly.

Well today for his anniversary sale, all his dollar bin books were priced at 10 cents each (yes all in color for a dime), back issues were an additional 10% off (or 10% off for non-dot wall books), supplies were 25% off, action figures and statues were 20-40% off, and a few other things were on sale.

Well, I went mostly to see what kind of damage I could do with the 10 cent boxes, and I did damage. I ended up spending about $36 and change on dime books, filling up two short boxes (which I got at 25% off too). About 95% of what I got was Post-Crisis/Pre-Flashpoint DC stuff, a lot of 5 year later Legion, Triangle era Superman, Star Trek, Star Trek the Next Generation, Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League books, etc. Some indy stuff (I managed to find an issue of Xenozoic Tales in there for instance) a few sci-fi prose magazines that were in the magazine box for a dime each, etc. The only Marvel stuff I got was a small chunk of issues of the Nam.

The shop opened at 10 this morning, I got there at 10:30 and he had already sold about 5 longboxes worth of stuff before I got there. I actually had to wait in line to get to the boxes for a short bit. Jeff later posted about the sale after he closed, and he ended up selling over 4000 comics at 10 cents each today (plus all the other stuff he sold). It's going to take me a couple of days to go through it all to figure out exactly what I got.

I did find a few other things that weren't dime books, not much but I I did find these at a decent price...



these were the edition that served as my intro to Jodo & Moebius' Incal in the late 80s/early 90s. I had these, but they were lost int he move out to Ohio in '03, and I never got a chance to replace them (I did get the hc Humanoids put out though). Every time I do see copies of them, they are priced anywhere from $30-$50 per volume, which is more than I wanted to pay for them. These were prices at $7.75 each, then red-stickered for 25% off of that, then an additional 10% off of that, so much more acceptably priced for me and I pulled the trigger to have that particular edition back on my shelves.

I also picked up a pair of King heroes issues...



Phantom #9 and Flash Gordon #29

and after recent discussion here nabbed these three books out of curiosity (they came out to under $2 an issue after discounts)...



There were a few other books I was tempted by, but decided against expanding my budget and didn't pull the trigger on them.

-M