Big score........

[Tom Foolery]

Not a Big Score.

Did a Buy it Now on ebay and picked up one of those proto-TPBs Marvel did back in the 80s/early 90s. It was a Captain America:Deathlok Lives. The guy also had 10 issues of Batman Beyond for $15 and it was free shipping, so I got everything for $22.

Then today I went across the river and found very little at the three shops I usually hit up.
The first shop I got the Batman/Catwoman oneshot that’s kicking off the new Batman event, the chrome Artgerm cover of Catwoman Uncovered, which is a oneshot of Catwoman variant covers, and the Adam Hughes cover of Gnort’s Swimsuit Edition, which is also a oneshot collection of the ‘swimsuit’ themed variant covers from a bunch of issues earlier this year. The Hughes cover is Power Girl wearing…not much. Itsa nice.

The second shop I found Detective 1072 and 1073 variant covers to catch up my run, Deadly Neighborhood Spidey 4, and Devil’s Reign:Superior Four 3 to finish those minis off. Also found Batman:Doom that Came to Gotham 3 for $5. Leaving me only issue 2 to find. And to think I was gonna drop $50 for the set a few months ago. Now I’ve found 2/3rds of it for $10 in the last week.

The final shop I found the second printing of Void Rivals 1 with Jetfire on the cover.

There’s still another show next week.

[Tom Foolery]

The Toy and Comic show turned out to be 85% toys and 15% comics. I spent $72 on 28 books. Mostly $1 a piece but I paid a little more for some Ironheart issues because I brought extra cash and wasn’t finding a whole lot. Here’s what I got.

Harley Quinn 31. The most recent variant issue.
Deathstroke 11. Finished the Nu52 series.
Deathstroke 19, 20. Just need issues 1 and 9 from the second Nu52 series.
Flash 24. From the Nu52 series. Six more to find.
Impulse 89. Just need issue 67 now.
IronHeart 2-4, 6. These were more expensive, but I filled a hole. Only missing 10-12 now.
Magnus Robot Fighter 52. Only seven more to find.
Magnus Robot Fighter 4, 14. Only seven more to find from the ‘97 series also.
Omega Men 25, 32, 38. Five more to go, including the expensive 3rd issue.
Thief of Thieves 33-43. Finished the series.
Venom:On Trial 1. Still need issue 3. And like eleven more issues from all his late 90s minis.

Next show at the mall isn’t until December I think.

[Diabolical]

I had a small haul today.
A local comic/used book store had a huge sale. When the new owners bought the store a year or two ago, the place was a fucking mess. They've done a ton to make it nice. Apparently the basement was packed top to bottom with inventory so they had a sale - everything they put out was $1.
There were boxes of new 90s comics - like dozens of copies of X-Men 300 or the white polybagged return of Superman or X-Force 1 (no Deadpool cards) and more. Crazy that they've been sitting in a basement for 30 years.

Comics haul:
Men in Black #3 - the original Aircel series worth about $35.
Sword of Azrael #1 - bought 2 copies. Suprisingly, only worth $20ish.
Dork #1 - from Evan Dorkin because it has Milk & Cheese in it.
Gotham By Gaslight - I might have it, but wasn't sure.
Savage Dragon/TMNT - didn't know it existed.
Gen 13 #2 - once a $30 book. Not with shit now lol
Uncanny X-Men- 174, 176, 181, 182, 186, 189, 231 - none worth anything really.
Gun Honey - variant covers from the semi-recent Hard Case Crime comic. 1 (2 covers), 2 (4 covers), 3 (2 covers)
Lancelot Link: Secret Chimp 5 - from 1972. It's valued at $50, but it's beat to shit and some marker on the cover, but it's Lancelot Fucking Link!

Two magazines:
Wizard X-Men 30th Anniversary Special - pure nostalgia. I have it in storage.
Starlog from July 1981

One book:
Splinter of the Mind's Eye - because I've never read it.

There was more I wanted to grab held off.
The owner said he only made a dent in what was in the basement so he plans on doing this again in a couple weeks.

[Diabolical]

The store that had the sale last month had another this past weekend. All were $1 each again.

Uncanny X-Men 205, 224, 269, 275, 277 - not in great shape, but some iconic covers in there.
X-Men -1 (1997) - in a whom because the cover was cool.
X-Men Classic 69 (Uncanny 165) - I want this series just for the Mignola covers.
Detective Comics 579, 601, 603-607, 611-613, 616-618, 627 - A big chunk of Breyfogle work, including his first Batman.
Batman 497 (x2) - the infamous back breaking issue.
Sword of Azrael 1 - couldn't pass up a third copy for a buck.
Gotham Central 2
Rocketeer movie adaptation - why didn't Dave Stevens draw it?
Laura and other stories 1 - by Guillem March. I might already have it.
Jessica Jones 1 (2016 Action Figure variant)
Superman: The 10 cent Adventure
Serenity: Better Days 2
The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist 1
1994 Science Fiction Annual - for the nostalgia. Damn, there were no rules in the 90s for page layouts. Some of that shit is impossible to read.

[Tom Foolery]

I feel like Uncanny 269’s cover is an homage to another cover. But I’m too lazy to do internet research on it.

[Tom Foolery]

Another mall show this weekend. Got around 50 books. Some were $1, some were $5, worked out to about $2 apiece. Here’s what I got.

Avengers:Ultron Revolution 1-10. A Disney XD series. Got the full run for $10.
Black Panther 16. From the…one of the recent BP series. Still need 14 more issues, which is a majority of the run.
Captain Marvel 128. Finished the Legacy run.
Hellblazer 4, 9, 10, 113, 116, 117, 141. From the Vertigo series.
Legion 1. 2nd Print of the ‘18 mini. “Finished” the run, but will still look for a first print.
Martian Manhunter 1-3. Variant covers.
MST3K 2-6. Didn’t know they did MST3K comics. Came out around the time it got briefly rebooted on Netflix.
Red Hood:Outlaw 29. Variant cover.
Silk 5-8, 17. Just need issue 18 to finish the 2016 run.
Spider-Gwen 6. Missing like four more issues, but they’re on the pricey side.
Superman:American Alien 1. Finished the mini.
Star Wars:Poe Dameron 20. Five issues to go.
Venom:Hunted 2. Finished the mini.
Venom 10, 18-21. From Remender’s run. Need another dozen issues to finish the run.
Wastelanders: Doom and Wolverine oneshots. Still need the Black Widow and Starlord issues.
All New X -Men 13. Finished the series.
X-23 13. Still need issue 15.
And some Batman Fortnite books so my kid can open them for the game codes.

Also found a Marvel Legends Speedball figure for $12.

Not sure when the next show is.

[Tom Foolery]

There was a mall show this weekend that I didn’t even know about until I went to a comic shop across the river yesterday, and they were closed because he had a table at the show.

I spent a little bit more on some older back issues and issues to fill out runs, so there were some $5-7 books, but also quite a few $1 books. It averaged out to more than $2 but less than $3(I’m not gonna do the exact math) per issue. Only found 67 books
Here’s what I got.

Astro City:Samaritan oneshot. Apart from a few of the Dark Ages minis, and about a dozen of the newset series, I have almost every AC book.
Avengers 223. The classic ‘Ant-Man on Hawkeye’s arrow’ cover. Paid $7 for a newstand copy(I prefer Direct Market copies) but it filled a key hole in my Avengers run.
Batman:The Dark Knight 14. Finished the NU52 series.
Batman; Li’l Gotham 6, 10. Five more to find.
Batman Beyond Unlimited 7
Batman Beyond Universe 9, 14. Only need one more issue from each of those Beyond series.
Batman/Superman Annual 2021. Just need issue 20 to finish the series. The catch is I have all the variant covers, so finding a variant of 20 will take longer.
Cable&Deadpool 18, 26. Just need issue 48 to finish the 50 issue run.
Captain America 228, 247, 248, 252.
Captain America:Peggy Carter,Agent of SHIELD. An $8 reprint book I got for 50 cents.
Deadpool Corps:Rank and Foul oneshot. Handbook style with DP related friends, foes, etc.
Deadpool’s Art of War 2-4. Finished the Peter David mini.
Defenders 88, 115, 117.
Doom Patrol 20.
Fantastic Four 192, 195, 202, 203, 207, 213, 215. Only six more issues and I’ll have an FF run from 200 onward.
Flash 46, 48. From the Nu52 run. Only four more to find.
Flash 4, 6-9, 12, 21, 26, and variants of 46, 47. Only eight more to find from the Rebirth run.
Gambit 19. Just need the 1/2 issue from the ‘99 series.
Gambit 1. Finished the ‘04 series.
Gotham City Monsters 4. Finished the series.
Harley Quinn 11.
Hellblazer 142.
Justice League of America 1. The South Dakota flag variant.
Legion of Super Heroes 6. Only three more to find from Bendis’ run.
Metal Men 1, 3, 10, 11. Variant covers from the 12 isssue maxi. Seven more to find, but now I have to look for the rest of the variant covers.
Mr and Mrs X 3, 6, 8, 9. Finished the series.
Rogue & Gambit 4. Finished the ‘18 mini.
Secret Files:Legion 3003.
Superman:Doomed oneshot. There was a oneshot and a mini series and I thought this was the first issue of the mini, so I may have this already.
Superman/WonderWoman 27. Finished the series, except for a Wendy’s promo freebie.
Venom 12. From Remender’s run starring Flash Thompson’s Agent Venom.
Wonder Woman 43, 45. From the Rebirth run.

Working backwards on those Cap and FF runs is probably my new MO going forward, spending a little bit extra to fill in Marvel runs from the 70s/early 80s. I’m also nearly done with all the Nu52 runs. Probably 24 issues across a dozen series, and then most of Harley Quinn’s series.

[Diabolical]

The same store I went to back in Sept/Oct had another $1 sale of stuff from the basement.

Pacific Presents #1 - Early Rocketeer appearance, beat to shit.
Serenity: Better Days #3
Astonishing X-Men: Gifted trade
Fantastic Four vs the X-Men #1
X-Men Classic #84 (Uncanny 106) - for that sweet Mignola cover.
Uncanny X-Men #281 - The debut of the Gold team.
Uncanny X-Men #242 - part of Inferno
Uncanny X-Men #186 - Another copy of the Lifedeath story
X-Men Annual #8
The New Mutants #22 and 63 - for the cool covers.
Batman#441 - A Lonely Place of Dying pt3
Detective Comics #852 - Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? pt2
Detective Comics #622-624 - Dick Sprang covers
Detective Comics #601,603,604,617,618 - random issues, several of which I already have.
Robocop adaptation - All the implied violence and none of the swearing!
Who Framed Robert Rabbit? adaptation - this one is a bit weird. It's magazine sized and (not surpringly) has none of the licensed animated characters in it.

And
The Sensational She-Hulk #1 - I thought I'd found a really beat up copy of that classic pink cover. The cover was even falling off, but for a buck I grabbed it. When I got home I realized the comic inside was a coverless 90s Superboy (post-Death of Superman version) comic. Oh well.

[Tom Foolery]

Was in Michigan visiting relatives I haven’t seen in 15 years, and also celebrating my dad’s 85th birthday. There’s only one comic shop in the dozen or so towns/cities in the area. And it was in the local mall, so I was expecting a dinky shop that catered to the most recent releases, and not having a large back issue offering, let alone discount bins of any kind. Boy was I surprised when I walked into Lange’s. They have THREE storefronts; two dedicated to comics, and one for toys and collectibles, including giant Lego dump bins where you can buy lbs of Legos. I didn’t make it thru the entire store the first day. So I started in their 50 cent bins, and bulk unbagged boxes and bought some stuff. Then I went back the following day and went thru their $2 boxes. I didn’t even make it thru all of those, but it’s fine because I was hitting my $ limit anyway. Here’s what I got.

Day one.

Avengers 201.
Capt America/Nick Fury:Blood Truce oneshot. A prestige oneshot from the mid 90s.
DC Comics Presents 34, 43, 72, 85, Annual 3. Down to the last 25 issues of its 100 issue run.
Manhunter Special Edition. A proto-TPB of the Goodwin/Simonson series from the 80s.
Marvel Fanfare 42. Finished this series. It’s a newstand copy, and I prefer DM, but it’s done.
Halloween Megazine. A giant spooky Marvel oneshot from 1996.
Silver Age Classics:Detective 327. Reprint of the first appearance of Batman’s “New” look.
Silver Surfer Annual 2. Part of the Atlantis Attacks event. I already own this, but it was my first SS comic ever, and my introduction to Ron Lim’s art.
Spider-Man:Venom Agenda oneshot from the late 90s.
Superman:Last God of Krypton prestige oneshot. I thought this was Last Son of Krypton. I already had it.
Venom:Hunger 2.
What If? 35 what if Elektra lived?
Four issues of Hunt for Wolverine minis. I’m only missing Mystery In Madripoor 1 now. The rest are finished.
Flash 23, 28. From the Rebirth series. Only missing six issues.

Day Two
Amazing Spidey 797. Finally found that issue I missed.
Avengers 202, Annual 13. Six issues to go and I’ll have every Avengers from 200 onward.
Black Panther 167. Missing 168 from the Legacy run from 2017.
Black Panther 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 17, 18, 20, 22, 24, and 25. Just missing 2 and 23 from Coates’ 2018 run. And also, except for those three issues, now I have every BP book except the 1970 run.
BP and the Crew 6. Finished the mini.
Some of Way’s DP run. 30, 55, 60, 62.
Doctor Strange 385, 387. Finished the Legacy series.
Doctor Strange and the Sorceror Supremes 8. Finished that series.
Hulk/Pitt oneshot.
Iron Man 20. Finally finished Kieron Gillen’s run.
Old Man Logan 17. Just need issue 15.
Iron Man/Power Pack 1. Finished the mini.
Rocket Raccoon 3. Finished one of his series.
Runaways 3, 31, 32. Five issues to go.
Power of Shazam 22, 44. Missing three issues.
Sensational She-Hulk 41. Just need issues 55 and 60.
Slapstick 3. Finished the series.
Spectacular Spidey 67. Missing 15 issues, all before 57.
Spider-Girl 78, 93. Missing four more, but I think they’re all expensive/HTF.
Thor 303, 310, 321, 325, 334-336. I only need 305 and 333 for every Thor issue from 300 to current.
Thunderbolts 159, 160, 162. Finished. I now have every Tbolts issue.
War of the Realms:War Scrolls 3. Finished the mini.
Wonder Woman 73, 79, 86. Only missing the super expensive issue 72 and an annual for a full run of the 1987 series.
X-Men Classic 43. Finished the series.
X-Men Origins:Jean Grey oneshot. Just need the Colossus and Deadpool oneshots.
X-Men Legends 12. Finished the series.

Found plenty of cool stuff. If I ever come back, I’ll do a more thorough search of the DC and Image boxes.

[Diabolical]

I've been ranting to go to Lange's for a while now.
It's only about 30 minutes away. I just haven't made the time.

[Diabolical]

Not a big score, but a good one.
I nabbed Uncanny X-Men 177, 178, 180, 181, 182, and 183 for $3.00 each.

[Tom Foolery]

Nice! Back when Romita Jr was doing art well.

And they look to be in great condition! Nice find.

[jjreason]

God those covers. I"m back in grade 7 chasing those issues. <3

[Diabolical]

I couldn't pass them up despite being 500% over cover price.

[anarky]

The only artist who's gotten lazier with age than Romita Jr is Miller. They were gods once, and now it's painful to look at their work. At least Romita Jr isn't a fascist, I guess.