dan bailey
11-06-2005, 05:37 PM
while talking with a couple of students from auburn university (about 50 miles up the interstate from here) thursday at the (mostly sports) collectibles shop where i work, i chanced to inquire about the lcs up there, since i'd never visited it. they mentioned that the guy had had an electrical fire during the summer & was selling a bunch of affected items at steep discounts. i'd been meaning to visit the place anyway, but that really whetted my appetite, so i braved the remnants of a bad cold & my poorly running car (a problem supposedly repaired in mid-april) & made the trip up there yesterday.
here's what i hauled back at 6-for-$20, albeit with a bit of smoke-smudging & occasional mild water-wrinkling along the edges --
golden-age men of mystery 15, 39
best of the west: golden-age greats 7
mightly crusaders tpb
the shield tpb
the adventures of the fly tpb
marvel visionaries: gil kane tpb
sipder-man: strange adventures tpb
superman in the seventies tpb (i already had the '50s & '60s vols)
manhunter: the special edition tpb
sabre tpb
the shadow: blood & judgment tpb
the inhumans gn
someplace strange gn
killraven: warrior of the worlds gn
cloak & dagger gn
solar, man of the atom: second death tpb
grandson of origins marvel tpb
(of course, i can only imagine what's been bought up during the intervening 3-odd months ... with my luck, probably the entire run of dc archives & marvel masterworks. *choke*)
also picked up a few undamaged comics that have simply refused to show up around here, like all of steve rude's moth, secret origins 11 (prices for which have shot up absurdly on ebay of late, since it features a power girl "origin" ... that leaves me only a couple of issues from amassing all 50 issues), 4 issues of mark evanier's & sergio aragones' fanboy, & a few other odds & ends.
then i swung by the hastings around the corner (we don't have one down here) & picked up a few used cds & books, including vol 1 (& only?) of crossgen's route 666, which i read today. *sigh* a couple of hours later, i found myself buying the entire run off ebay.
(speaking of hastings, does anyone else shop at one? i was rather intrigued to see a comics rack with not only a couple of dozen current titles but also about 15 shrinkwrapped bundles of 3-for-$2.99 comics, most of which appeared to be from the '80s -- action weekly, capt atom & a few others i don't remember. had i not been running short on funds i'd've picked at least one up, since i own only one action weekly.)
add all that together with the jonah hex showcase presents' arrival at my lcs yesterday, & i've got a lot of reading ahead of me. since i'm particularly likely to read comics while more or less incapacitated (friday night, when my cold was still raging, i plowed through charles burns' black hole hc & the invulnerable ultimate collection hc before finally going to sleep), that'll come in really handy thursday, when i'm due to have a wisdom tooth extracted (amazing that i've reached age 46 without ever losing one, especially since for most of my life i've averaged probably 4 cavities a year).
here's what i hauled back at 6-for-$20, albeit with a bit of smoke-smudging & occasional mild water-wrinkling along the edges --
golden-age men of mystery 15, 39
best of the west: golden-age greats 7
mightly crusaders tpb
the shield tpb
the adventures of the fly tpb
marvel visionaries: gil kane tpb
sipder-man: strange adventures tpb
superman in the seventies tpb (i already had the '50s & '60s vols)
manhunter: the special edition tpb
sabre tpb
the shadow: blood & judgment tpb
the inhumans gn
someplace strange gn
killraven: warrior of the worlds gn
cloak & dagger gn
solar, man of the atom: second death tpb
grandson of origins marvel tpb
(of course, i can only imagine what's been bought up during the intervening 3-odd months ... with my luck, probably the entire run of dc archives & marvel masterworks. *choke*)
also picked up a few undamaged comics that have simply refused to show up around here, like all of steve rude's moth, secret origins 11 (prices for which have shot up absurdly on ebay of late, since it features a power girl "origin" ... that leaves me only a couple of issues from amassing all 50 issues), 4 issues of mark evanier's & sergio aragones' fanboy, & a few other odds & ends.
then i swung by the hastings around the corner (we don't have one down here) & picked up a few used cds & books, including vol 1 (& only?) of crossgen's route 666, which i read today. *sigh* a couple of hours later, i found myself buying the entire run off ebay.
(speaking of hastings, does anyone else shop at one? i was rather intrigued to see a comics rack with not only a couple of dozen current titles but also about 15 shrinkwrapped bundles of 3-for-$2.99 comics, most of which appeared to be from the '80s -- action weekly, capt atom & a few others i don't remember. had i not been running short on funds i'd've picked at least one up, since i own only one action weekly.)
add all that together with the jonah hex showcase presents' arrival at my lcs yesterday, & i've got a lot of reading ahead of me. since i'm particularly likely to read comics while more or less incapacitated (friday night, when my cold was still raging, i plowed through charles burns' black hole hc & the invulnerable ultimate collection hc before finally going to sleep), that'll come in really handy thursday, when i'm due to have a wisdom tooth extracted (amazing that i've reached age 46 without ever losing one, especially since for most of my life i've averaged probably 4 cavities a year).