Anyone have access to bargain comics?

[Antiyonder]

Here's what I mean.

One of the comic stores in my areas
have a section with comics that cost 50 cents.


Anyone else have a good deal like that?

[JTurner954]

Well, I know of two stores that had deals like that different times of the year. One store did that as a celebration to their new location (3 for $1.00) and another as a going out of business sale (4 for $1.00) that is now .... out of buisness.

As of right now, I know of one store that has all back issues at 50% off. Everywhere else is overpriced and far.

[Marc]

It's almost impossible to find a comic shop without bargain bins. It's the only way most stores can get rid of their crappy back issues. True, with a little patience, and a little luck, you may find some gems, but most of it's crap. The comic shop I visit on a weekly basis has a "50 cent" section, as well as a "99 cent" rack. Another comic shop in my area has entire boxes containing 100 issues for about 10 bucks. Granted this is mostly stuff like Youngblood and Cloak & Dagger.

- Cap

[Shawn Hopkins]

My store has a $1 section. It's actually the only section of back issues they have out, except for the last four issues of each title they keep on the shelves. They keep their huge collection of back issues in the back, because almost no one is interested in them.

I love dollar and 50 cent bins. With less of a financial outlay for each book I can experiment and be more adventurous in my purchases with less risk.

[halinar]

The main store I go to has one but I stopped looking in there. Too many of the books I bought in the 90's are in there :(

The collector books of the 90's are in the discount bins of today.

[randomguy]

My local comic book store has a huge 50 cent section. I love it, cause it gives me a chance to catch up on old issues of the animated DCU comics.

[Shawn Hopkins]

The main store I go to has one but I stopped looking in there. Too many of the books I bought in the 90's are in there :(

The collector books of the 90's are in the discount bins of today.

They sure are.

About three years or four ago a guy I knew in college, who told me he had once worked in a comicbook store, sold me his collection for $5. Except for the couple books I really wanted, it was shoebox, maybe two, filled with Spawn #1, three copies of the first issue of Turok, some Death of Superman issues, all of that crap that fed the speculator market in the 90s. A high percentage of it was covered in shiny foil.

I tried to sell the doubles and triples from it to a comic book store and they wouldn't take it. They already had tons of it they couldn't move for a dollar or less.

The lesson here is either: It's fruitless to expect financial gain from something that should be a hobby. You should only involve yourself in something like comics collecting if you enjoy it on its own merits, or;

Selling comic books won't go that far toward financing one last party before the end of the term. Sell blood or CDs instead.

I haven't decided which.