Big score........

[Tom Foolery]

Another “Con” down at the River Center. This one only cost $10 to get in, but like the last big con I went to a few weeks ago, there was only 4 tables in the entire place selling actual comics. One was selling older silver age stuff for $30-40 a book. One guy had three short boxes with almost entirely Walking Dead back issues and Venom variants. The third table had a selection of more recent stuff for $1-2 but didn’t have anything I wanted/needed.

So it came down to the last table. Had had a bunch of $1 books and some other stuff that was higher priced, but everything was marked 50% off. Since I had literally spent none of the money I intended to spend, I checked out the higher priced stuff he had. I only found 13 books, and spent $35 total. That’s like $2.70 a book. Even if you factor in the $10 entry fee it’s still like $3.50 a book. Here’s what I got.

Dark Knight Returns 4. The original issue.
Batman 118, 123, 124. Regular covers.
Daredevil 177, 184. Frank Miller issues.
Green Lantern 130, 150, 196. From the first run that ended in the 80s.
Magnus Robot Fighter 6.
Quantum and Woody 17.
Spectacular Spider-Man 33.
UltraForce 14.

On the way out, since I had hardly spent any money, I stopped by Bob Budainsky’s table and thanked him profusely for Transformers. Then I bought a signed print of Transformers 5(the one with Shockwave on the cover.)

All in all, less of a Big Score and more of a tiny score.

The next dealer show is at the end of July.

[Tom Foolery]

I just won an eBay auction for Batman:Shadow of the Bat 83. The first appearance of Helena Bertinelli as Batgirl. In the costume that would eventually be worn by Cassandra Cain.
It’s the final issue I needed to have a complete run of SotB. Nobody else bid on it, so I got it for $5+ shipping. Hooray!

[Tom Foolery]

A local shop bought some collections this week. I didn’t have time to look thru them went I went on Wednesday. They were pretty picked thru by the time I went in today. But I found 19 books for $15.

Avengers 193.
Blade 1-6. A MAX miniseries from 2002.
Booster Gold 4. The final issue I needed to finish his original 80s series.
Captain America Annual 7.
Capt America:First Vengeance 1, 2. Just need issue 3 from this MCU tie in. Back when Marvel was doing MCU tie ins.
Capt America: Civil War Prelude 1-3. Just need issue 4. Another MCU tie in. Probably one of the last MCU tie ins.
DC Comics Presents Green Lantern 100 Page Spectacular. $8 reprint of some Kyle Rayner issues.
Ghost Rider 1 Director’s Cut. The Garth Ennis/Clayton Crain mini from the early 2000s.
Marvel Knights:Hulk 3. Finally finished this mini.
X-Men 1. 20th Anniversary reprint of the Claremont/Lee issue.
X-Men Origins:Colossus oneshot. The only oneshot I needed from this series is the Deadpool issue.

There’s a dealer show in two weeks.

[Tom Foolery]

Alan’s dealer show yesterday. I bought 142 books from him for $56 and additional 35 or so books from a couple other dealers out of their $1 boxes. Here’s what I got.

Batman 53. Variant cover.
Batman 134. Going back to find all the main covers after I spent years buying the Variants as they came out.
14 various regular covers of Detective Comics, which I was also buying the Variants of.
Batman Secret Files:Peacemaker 01 oneshot.
Batman Beyond 8, 9. Still around 20 issues to find from the Rebirth series.
Batman:Beyond the White Knight 3.
Batman’89 3, 4.
Batman’89 Echoes 3, 4.
Batwoman 7, 15-17. From the Rebirth series.
Birds of Prey 13. Just need 3 and 16 from the most recent ongoing.
Blue Devil 6, 10, 13.
Bone 49. Only three issues to go.
Book of Death 3. A Valiant event mini series from 2015.
DC vs Vampires:World War Z 5.
Doctor Mirage 1, 3.
Doom Patrol 42.
Doom Patrol:Weight of the Worlds 5.
Wrath of the Eternal Warrior 9.
Everafter 2-6. Finished this Fables spinoff.
Flash 60. Variant cover.
Flash 775, 779. Might’ve already had one of these.
Flash 18. From the current run.
Future State: Gotham 18. Final issue. And also the final issue. Finished.
Green Arrow 22-24. From the recently ended current series.
Green Lanterns 38.
Green Lantern 12. From Grant Morrison’s run. Just need issue 11.
Green Lantern 8. Finished the 2021 series.
Green Lantern 21. From the current run.
Green Lantern Corps 6. Variant cover. From the current run.
Gun Honey 1.
Hardcase 17. Only two more issues to go.
Various James Bond 007 issues that I thought were from one ongoing, but were from more than one. Because Dynamite relaunches books all the time. With 15 variant covers for each issue.
James Bond 007:Hammerhead 1-6.
James Bond 007:Felix Leiter 1.
Justice League Odyssey 17-20. Variant covers. Just need issue 20.
Justice League Atom Project 3.
JSA 10.
Knight Terrors:Shazam 1.
Lone Ranger 25. A much more pristine copy of the all black cover.
Lone Ranger:Snake of Iron 1. Finished the mini.
Masquerade 2.
Miss Fury 2-5. From a 2018 mini.
100 Bullets 48.
Plastic Man No More 3.
Quicksilver:No Surrender 2, 3, 5. Finally finished this 2018 miniseries.
Rai 8, 12.
Runaways 14, 35. Finished Rainbow Rowell’s series.
Secret Weapons 1-4. A recent Valiant mini.
Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings 4. Already had the variant Finally found the main cover and finished the series.
SilverHawks 2.
Seven Soldiers:Frankenstein 3.
1776 1. Finally tracked down the main cover.
Six Guns 3.
Star Wars Poe Dameron 27. Only two more to find.
Suicide Squad Black Files 3, 4. Just need 5 and 6.
Swamp Thing 38. Only missing issue 32 from the NU52 run.
Swamp Thing 3, 4. Only missing issue 6 from the follow up mini.
Teen Titans Academy 4. According to my list, I didn’t need this. But I got it anyway, because I suspect I did need it to finish the run.
Titans 27. From the current series.
Terra Obscura 4. Finished the first mini. Only need issue 6 from the second mini.
Ultimate Spider-Man 10. And then there were THREE ISSUES LEFT.
Undiscovered Country 9, 11, 12, 16, 17, 26-30, Destiny Man oneshot.
Unity 25. Finished the Valiant series.
War is Hell oneshot. From a series of genre oneshots celebrating Marvel’s 80th anniversary.
Werewolf by Night Red Band 8.
Wicked + Divine 21, 25, 27, 32-34, 37, 41-43.
Wildstorm Michael Cray 2. Finished the series.
Zatanna 1. Variant cover of the new ongoing.

And the $1 books I got

8 more Batman regular covers.
Grendel:Devil’s Crucible 1.
Hellblazer 108, 130. 239.
14 issues of various Marvel Adventures All ages series.
Marvel Tales:Trials of Loki. An $8 reprint book.
Nightwing 25, 87.
100 Bullets 29.
Wonder Woman 19, 22-24, 44. From the Rebirth series. I’m like ten issues away from completing that one. But at some point, I’m gonna go back and fill in all the regular covers like I’m doing with Batman and Detective.

I think the next show will be the annual garage sale at his house out in Nowhere Illinois. Which isn’t until the end of Sept.