Here in town we have a used record/comic book store that I rarely go to (it's on the other side of town near nothing else I go to so if I go it's a specific trip and the owners tend to overgrade/overprice stuff at times). I hadn't been since January, but this week they announced they were having a 30% off sale on all comics and had restocked their 50 cent boxes, so I took a ride over on Sunday afternoon since I had the day off. When I got there, I was also surprised to be told he has a long box of Silver/Bronze-ish stuff that he was going to list on FB Monday (today) for a claim sale at $2 each and I could go through and pick out anything if I wanted to. There was nothing earth-shattering in the box, but some decent stuff for $2 each. So I rummaged through the 50 cent bins, the sale box and briefly looked through the other boxes and found a bunch of stuff. The most expensive issue I picked up was $5 (minus the 30% so $3.50) which was the issue of Elvira' House of Mystery, everything else was 50 cents to $3 minus the discount).

Among the $2 auction box was this Silver Age Atom which I grabbed...




I got a bunch of Batman stuff (all of it for 50 cents each except the two Bronze Age books which were in the auction box for $2 each





In the 50 cent bins, I found this and couldn't pass it up because of our own Crimebuster's influence...



The top 2 here were in the 50 cents bins, the bottom two in the auction box...



I already mentioned the Elvira book, the Alien Encounters as in the 50 cent bins, I never see issues for less than $5-6 online, most near $10 on Lonestar



two of the G.I.Combat issues were in the auction box, the other two were $1 books...



these two were in the auction box for $2 each...



these two Gladstone issues had classic Barks stories in them and were int he 50 cent boxes...



some classic Kubert covers...the Tomahawk and Our Army at War issues were $3 each (minus discount) and the others were 50 cent issues...



The Spirit issue was a buck, the Critters issue has an early Usagi Yojimbo story and was 50 cents...



and some more miscellaneous 50 cent stuff...










and sometimes you come across stuff you didn't know existed....cover by Gulacy, interior art by Paul Ryan and Tom Lyle



and that's the haul. It felt good to rummage through comic boxes again after over 3 months of not doing it, even if I was wearing a mask and gloves.

-M