Bragging rights - your best deal of late?

GJB · Post by **GJB** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:02 pm

buff-beardo wrote:Went to the comic shop today to buy Green Lantern Sinestro Corps Special 2nd print (I missed out on the 1st print), and they were sold out. Bummer. I go up to the counter to pay for the some other books (Astounding Wolfman, Criminal, Green Lantern, & Thor) and ask the owner if he'll be getting in more Sinestor Corps. Then, he goes to a bin behind the counter and tells me he has a first print a subscriber had returned. Sold it to me for cover price.

I picked up part two because my lcs owner recomended it. How is part 1? Either way, it's a cool book and a cool concept. I think I'm on board for a while.

hulk181man · Post by **hulk181man** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:55 pm

whovianone wrote:
kikitwitme wrote:I was driving down the street last weekend and glanced through the window of a comic shop filled with people. Being the nosy guy I am, I took the next U turn and discover the comic shop (Lee's Comics in San Mateo and its sister store in Mountain View, Ca.) had a .25 cent sale with maybe 30 long boxes, give or take.

I was a little late in the game because it was late afternoon so I didn't get first pickins'. I did manage to get a few Valiants (Solar 10 first print), some Miller Daredevils, Thor 337, a few older pre-mid 80's Marvels and some other odds and ends. I did see stuff some 2nd Vol. Acclaim books, Marvel Transformers and G.I. Joe comics. Here's just a few that I grabbed. No Harbinger#1's, Action Comics 1's or Amazing Fantasy 15's but kinda cool none the less.

One guy had two long boxes which I wish I could have peeked in. I saw a few D.C.s dating back to the 70's it looked like and a Marvel book that said "still only 25!" Well the early bird got the worm there.
Pretty nice haul for quarter books!

Indeed. Nice score -- wanna double your money?

mobstirr · Post by **mobstirr** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:01 pm

Great deal!

On a side note, my 9 year old son ALWAYS looks for Action Comics #1 whenever we go diving in quarter bins. I guess we all did at that age.

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:34 pm

kikitwitme wrote: From my understanding, I think they buy peoples collections and look through everything for the real gems then price them accordingly. Everything else they just shove in the quarter bins. I'm not sure if they do that yearly or throughout the year. The guy at the counter told me they were just holding on to these for a while.
Seeing that you were a hop, skip and a jump away from Lee's Comics Chuck, its a too bad you didn't go.

It would have been cool just to look, but I'm really just buying CGC'd comics right now

Chuck · Post by **Chuck** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:45 pm

cobra_commander wrote:
Aww you shoulda gone Chuck, sounds like one of the only decent sales in lcs history

Thanks CC (rub it in)

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:46 am

look very closely to this picture
http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-49-Valiant-Arch ... dZViewItem
I think i got a good deal there

there is 6 or more of each book pictured

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:00 am

mobstirr wrote:Great deal!

On a side note, my 9 year old son ALWAYS looks for Action Comics #1 whenever we go diving in quarter bins. I guess we all did at that age.

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:00 am

Chuck wrote:
cobra_commander wrote:
Aww you shoulda gone Chuck, sounds like one of the only decent sales in lcs history
Thanks CC (rub it in)

Sorry

cobra_commander · Post by **cobra_commander** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:02 am

superman-prime wrote:look very closely to this picture
http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-49-Valiant-Arch ... dZViewItem
I think i got a good deal there
there is 6 or more of each book pictured

Well done!

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:05 am

Thanks Cobra
on a side note, Americas elete rocks

whovianone · Post by **whovianone** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:33 am

superman-prime wrote:look very closely to this picture
http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-49-Valiant-Arch ... dZViewItem
I think i got a good deal there
there is 6 or more of each book pictured

Nice snag, especially if that has 6 A&A 0s.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:25 am

Cool, an A&A gold.

buff-beardo · Post by **buff-beardo** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:55 am

I bought a DC: 52 complete run and World War III 1-4 for $30 including shipping. Now I'm starting to get the DC bug again,.... but I still have to complete my Crossgens, and Walking Dead, and Valiant, and Invincible,.... and so on.

*SQUEE* · Post by ***SQUEE*** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:10 am

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... :IT&ih=014

Not the best deal but I was expecting this to go a lot higher (last one I was bidding on went for around 100 bones)

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:43 am

Yeah, not the greatest deal, but at least you have it now. Just wait till you try to buy an EW #27....yeeesh (I'm still needing one too).

superman-prime · Post by **superman-prime** » Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:37 pm

I would have paid that

good deal for somthing u needed and still a great price

mobstirr · Post by **mobstirr** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:51 pm

How was this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=020

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:55 pm

mobstirr wrote:How was this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=020

Hopefully good deal. A small risk though. Don't want to be negative but I must mention that many sellers sell the box with trade 1 only, thinking it has all four.

/Magnus

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:09 pm

I thought this was a killer deal:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=011

I meant to bid, but forgot about it...

mobstirr · Post by **mobstirr** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 3:12 pm

magnusr wrote:
mobstirr wrote:How was this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=020
Hopefully good deal. A small risk though. Don't want to be negative but I must mention that many sellers sell the box with trade 1 only, thinking it has all four.

/Magnus

Good point! Just sent the seller an e-mail to confirm this contains all 4 TPB's.

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:35 am

Zero wrote:I thought this was a killer deal:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=011

I meant to bid, but forgot about it...

Note to myself - add a few favorite searches in the Posters category.

/Magnus

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 1:41 am

All this for 100 clams! Thanks, Schmakt!

Armorines

3, 6, 9, 11

Bloodshot

29, 32, 35, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

Eternal Warrior

26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49

Geomancer

8

H.A.R.D Corps

15, 17, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

Harbinger

30, 39

Magnus: Robot Fighter

7, 38, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60

Ninjak

5, 6, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25

Rai

8, 23, 26, 27, 29, 32

Solar

37, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60

Timewalker

0, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13

Turok

20, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 , 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46

X-O Manowar

56, 65, 66, 67, 68

Visitor

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Brother J · Post by **Brother J** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 8:17 am

Tim Petty wrote:All this for 100 clams! Thanks, Schmakt!

Armorines

3, 6, 9, 11

Bloodshot

29, 32, 35, 40, 41, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

Eternal Warrior

26, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48, 49

Geomancer

8

H.A.R.D Corps

15, 17, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

Harbinger

30, 39

Magnus: Robot Fighter

7, 38, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60

Ninjak

5, 6, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25

Rai

8, 23, 26, 27, 29, 32

Solar

37, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60

Timewalker

0, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13

Turok

20, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30 , 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46

X-O Manowar

56, 65, 66, 67, 68

Visitor

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

very nice, Schmakt, way to help out a fellow collector!

mobstirr · Post by **mobstirr** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:28 pm

mobstirr wrote:
magnusr wrote:
mobstirr wrote:How was this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... :IT&ih=020
Hopefully good deal. A small risk though. Don't want to be negative but I must mention that many sellers sell the box with trade 1 only, thinking it has all four.

/Magnus
Good point! Just sent the seller an e-mail to confirm this contains all 4 TPB's.

Just got a reply back from the seller who confirmed that it contains all 4 books.

magnusr · Post by **magnusr** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:53 pm

mobstirr wrote:Just got a reply back from the seller who confirmed that it contains all 4 books.

Good deal!

/Magnus