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Post by Calidore on Apr 17, 2021 13:35:57 GMT -5
I don’t know about dollar bins but what if I paid cover price and they were under a dollar?
Back then, dollar bins were quarter bins. Same principle, though. Maybe just call it "bargain bins"?
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 17, 2021 14:54:31 GMT -5
The first time I went to a comic store, which I think was in 1985, I sat on the floor and went through their quarter bin.
The two books I bought were Amazing Adventures #6 from Atlas, featuring Dr. Droom, and Flash #137, the first SA appearance of the Justice Society.
I wish I still had those books to trade as part of this challenge!!
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 17, 2021 15:18:08 GMT -5
The Best Buy’s I got from bargain bins was Green lantern / Green Arrow 85 ( speedy drug issue ) for 1 dollar. It was in rough shape. N Teen Titans 2 ( first Deathstroke) water Damage 1 dollar and Megaton 3 ( first full Savage Dragon ) 50 cents.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 19, 2021 8:08:53 GMT -5
I posted the YouTube video on both my FB page and a FB group for comic collectors.
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Post by shaxper on Apr 19, 2021 8:35:48 GMT -5
Ten years ago, you could get almost anything in the dollar bins. Probably my best find was a Tales of the Teen Titans #44, which I've since passed along to @mrp.
But my favorite finds were in the $10 and $20 bins. It's crazy how much Silver Age goodness you could get at bargain basement prices, including the Detective Comics #359 I just sold on ebay for more than 2500% of what I paid.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 19, 2021 9:05:00 GMT -5
I posted the YouTube video on both my FB page and a FB group for comic collectors. Thanks!
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 19, 2021 9:08:38 GMT -5
Ten years ago, you could get almost anything in the dollar bins. Probably my best find was a Tales of the Teen Titans #44, which I've since passed along to @mrp . But my favorite finds were in the $10 and $20 bins. It's crazy how much Silver Age goodness you could get at bargain basement prices, including the Detective Comics #359 I just sold on ebay for more than 2500% of what I paid. I've already had one angry troll tell me there's no way I could have found this stuff in dollar bins, saying they must have been from decades ago. With the exception of the OMAC #1, though, everything in my video is fairly recent. And this isn't even the good stuff I've found - I sold most of that already! I actually think in some ways it's easier to find stuff in dollar bins now because movie hype means every random back issue has a chance of suddenly being worth a brazillion dollars. But who knows what the dollar bin scene will look like after the pandemic. I haven't been able to really look for stuff for a year and a half at this point, so I don't know what's going on out there right now.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 19, 2021 9:13:57 GMT -5
First day update: so far I've had offers for 10 of the 20 books in my initial Trade Kitty, so things are off to a pretty good start! I'm hoping to move another 4 or 5, but we'll see. There are certain books I've had multiple offers on, and others that I'm a little worried nobody will ever take. But we'll see!
And as I mentioned above, also one random internet troll pooping in my corn flakes. It certainly motivates me to find more cool stuff! It's also tempting to add some of the better stuff I've kept in my own collection just to make a point, so I'm debating whether to add in the X-Men #129 I found in a dollar bin a couple years ago to the next round.
Thanks for all the support everyone, I really appreciate it! Next stop: the Golden Age!!
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 19, 2021 18:59:02 GMT -5
First day update: so far I've had offers for 10 of the 20 books in my initial Trade Kitty, so things are off to a pretty good start! I'm hoping to move another 4 or 5, but we'll see. There are certain books I've had multiple offers on, and others that I'm a little worried nobody will ever take. But we'll see! And as I mentioned above, also one random internet troll pooping in my corn flakes. It certainly motivates me to find more cool stuff! It's also tempting to add some of the better stuff I've kept in my own collection just to make a point, so I'm debating whether to add in the X-Men #129 I found in a dollar bin a couple years ago to the next round. Thanks for all the support everyone, I really appreciate it! Next stop: the Golden Age!! The same person posted the same negative comment on the FB page. It must be sad to wake up everyday a jealous fool. Why does he care?
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 19, 2021 19:06:37 GMT -5
This isn't even the good stuff, I usually sell the higher priced stuff when I find it! If I still had my dollar bin Batman Adventures #12 or something to add he'd probably flip a table and have a heart attack.
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 19, 2021 19:14:25 GMT -5
There are some people that are on social media that have mental problems , but if they can type, they have a voice.
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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 19, 2021 20:00:08 GMT -5
There are some people that are on social media that have mental problems , but if they can type, they have a voice. I think that your choice of the word “some” is being overly kind.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2021 20:33:24 GMT -5
This isn't even the good stuff, I usually sell the higher priced stuff when I find it! If I still had my dollar bin Batman Adventures #12 or something to add he'd probably flip a table and have a heart attack. Yeah, I have found a bunch of stuff in dollar bins just since I moved out to Ohio that either went on to sell or was already selling at high prices, almost all of which I have divested of for other books I wanted now. But things like Avengers Annual 10, most of the first 20 issues of the 80s Moon Knight series, about 15-20 issues of the 2002 Catwoman series featuring Adam Hughes covers (those I still have as that is a series I want to complete except the Hughes covers I don't have are so damn pricey), a Brave & Bold 85, 1st Vibe in the JLA Annual (#3 I think), etc. etc. Stuff is out there, it's a matter of being in the right place at the right time and not having the seller be the kind of person that sees it come and and immediately says "oh no that's not supposed to be in there" and tried to jack up the price on you. But there are a lot of people who have come into the hobby in this spec wave who don't know or understand what the market was like before the current paradigm of other media appearances driving prices became the norm and before people began combing bargain book for spec books on a regular basis. I suspect a lot of stuff is in there because the dealer bought a bulk collection, went through and culled what was hot and collectible at the time, and then has had the rest in boxes since selling for a buck apiece trying to move it on, without going back as new "hot" books emerge, and sometimes those boxes can sit in storage for a few years before they get pulled out for a show or to be brought into a shop to restock. But new breed of collector doesn't know what's what unless gocollect or some other app tells them they should buy it and assume such apps have always existed (30 years ago the same breed had Wizard to tell them what to buy). It's not anything we haven't seen before if you have been around the hobby long enough, it's just amplified and more in your face because of the ease of access to social media for that type of hobbyist. Same as it ever was. I do suspect, however, that there will be a whole lot less out there post-pandemic, especially Marvel-related, but we won't know for certain until conventions become a regular occurrence again. I think a lot of dealers have had time to comb through those old boxes through the shut down and have done so looking for books to sell on ebay and social media over the past year, and have learned the benefit of doing so in the volatile market that comics had become. Before it wasn't always worth it to go through a box again to find one or two books that might have come in demand that were missed the first time, now those kinds of book are commanding the kind of prices that finding even one makes the effort of re-searching a handful of boxes worthwhile. And with new media projects getting announced every quarter, I think we will see less falling through the cracks as dealers search their stock more often. -M
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 19, 2021 20:54:03 GMT -5
This isn't even the good stuff, I usually sell the higher priced stuff when I find it! If I still had my dollar bin Batman Adventures #12 or something to add he'd probably flip a table and have a heart attack. I do suspect, however, that there will be a whole lot less out there post-pandemic, especially Marvel-related, but we won't know for certain until conventions become a regular occurrence again. I think a lot of dealers have had time to comb through those old boxes through the shut down and have done so looking for books to sell on ebay and social media over the past year, and have learned the benefit of doing so in the volatile market that comics had become. Before it wasn't always worth it to go through a box again to find one or two books that might have come in demand that were missed the first time, now those kinds of book are commanding the kind of prices that finding even one makes the effort of re-searching a handful of boxes worthwhile. And with new media projects getting announced every quarter, I think we will see less falling through the cracks as dealers search their stock more often. -M We'll see, I'm curious myself how this will go of course. The flip side is that with all the ridiculous speculation happening, it's almost impossible to keep up with crazy new books getting hot all the time, so in some ways there's more opportunity than ever to find books in the dollar bins because anything in there might get hot. On the other hand, I have been seeing a lot more new moderns in dollar bins in recent years thanks to over-ordering to get variant covers. I'll go into shops and there will be box after box of issues from six months ago for 50 cents each. That makes it hard to find anything useful. We'll see!!
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Post by Icctrombone on Apr 21, 2021 18:41:54 GMT -5
I think I can claim first blood in this challenge. CB and I engineered a deal and I acquired this gem First appearance of Savage Dragon. Yeah Babyyyyyyyyy !
I'll Let our own Scott Harris reveal what he got in return.
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