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In the past few days, it's started to feel like spring has well and truly sprung in the environs I call my home.
But there's another kind of spring.
A spring into action!
Astonishing.
It's the one in which the first person to comment below gets to decide just what's to be the topic of the day.
And just what will they decide?
That is something that even a man as awesomely powerful and wise as I cannot know.
Therefore, feel free to get that particular ball rolling and we shall see just what magic unfolds, unfurls and unravels before our literal eyes.
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This topic may have come up before; if so disregard it; my aging brains get repetitive at times. It's actually a two-part question:
What was the best deal you ever got on a purchase in your collecting days? And the flip side:
What was the worst deal you ever got stuck with?
To get it started, here's mine:
Probably the best purchase was a box of comics I got off Craigslist. A fellow met me after work and pulled an old cardboard box out of his car, asking 30 dollars for it. I saw they were Silver age books, so jumped at the chance. Got home and went through the lot; among them were Batman 181 (first Poison Ivy) and Flash 175 (2nd. Superman/Flash race). Worked out to about 25 cents per comic.
Worst deal- early on, when I was a teen age collector, I went to a convention. Was particularly looking to find a copy of "Silver Surfer" #1. I did indeed encounter a dealer with one; of course he had it priced well above the Overstreet NM price. Nevertheless, I bought it. And, made the cardinal mistake of a back issue buyer- failed to open the book. Upon doing so later, it turned out to have a detached cover and two missing pages. Learned that lesson well...
interesting topic, Redartz - I don't remember it cropping up before!
In the early-mid 90s (I forget), I got a big box, full of mid 70s UK weeklies, from OK Comics in Leeds, for £5. It was the collection of a lad who died in a motorcycle crash (so tinged with sadness.)
Also, about 15 years ago (?), I got a collected edition of Strange Apparitions (Marshall Rogers/Terry Austin Batman), reduced to either 50p or £1.50 ( I forget! )
At the moment, I can't think of a bad deal. If I remember one, I will include it later!
Phillip
Excellent subject Red!
Best deal was a box (like copy paper box) of late 1940s to mid 1950s Looney Tune (Bugs, Porky, Westerns) for $3. Maybe 30 a 40 comics? This was at a flea market at what used to be a KMart in dying Gary Indiana around 1975? Many were super nice; all had that musty odor.
This was a lot of fun (maybe I sent you a few?)
It also led to my favorite being rip-off story to follow, lol.
As in aside, due to my part-time hobby of buying old Time or Paris Match magazines off eBay, I think I finally found a way to get rid of that musty odor, lol. I hang them on a drying rack over heating ducts (mine are in the floor) for some days. Seems to work!
Charlie Horse 47
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