A couple of weeks back Tracey and I went to do a little second hand store shopping and unearthed some real bargains. We actually only even went in because there was a privacy screen in the window that Tracey spotted and she’s been after one for ages.
Whilst in there I couldn’t resist going down to the book section even though I already own my fair share of books! Now I’ll give you comic book and science fiction geeks a bit of a tip, in second hand book stores and general second hand stores always check out the children’s section, a lot of science fiction makes it’s way into that section as well of course as comic books!
The first find I made were some Buffy the Vampire Slayer trade paperback novels each for $1.50!!! These things are minimum $15 in your local comic book shop and the books are in perfect condition, I got:
- Ring of Fire
- Crash Test Demons
- The Remaining Sunlight
- Uninvited Guests
So frankly at this stage I was pretty happy and would have walked away satisfied but then I found a pile of King Classics comic books from 1978 in perfect condition for 50c each! I picked up:
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Don Quixote of La Mancha
- Ivanhoe
- The Black Arrow
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Swiss Family Robinson
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Davy Crockett
- Moby Dick
- A Christmas Carol
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- The Three Musketeers
- Great Expectations
- Treasure Island
- The Prince and the Pauper
- Robinson Crusoe
- The Gold Bug
- Gulliver’s Travels
And as I said these comics are all in pristine condition, I could easily turn them around for a profit on eBay but at this stage I’ll be hanging on to them (and reading them of course). So check out your local second hand stores because there is gold to be found!
Just to recap, we have twenty-one over thirty-year-old comic books for $10.50 and four trade paperbacks for $6.
So have you found any gems in your local second hand shops?
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Sweeeet Buffy finds! What op-shop was this in? I've never really had much luck with op-shops, mostly cause the only time I go is when I only have $30 and I end up buying a bunch of clothes for sewing. One time I did find an accordian that I was extremely tempted to go back and buy later but…I'm never going to learn to play the accordian. I just wanted it to sit in my room
I think it's a St Vinnies out at Strathpine – I'm usually the same I always seem to go places with cool finds but have limited cash on me (markets especially).
An accordion!! That would have been cool – again I do the exact same thing!!!
Holy crap! Nice finds! I remember reading those King Classics. They were, at the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, classics. I'd love to find them again.
I know, it was an absolute little treasure! You have no idea how good a condition they are in too!!
I remember when I was a kid, I found a good chunk of Claremont / Byrne X-Men comics in a second hand shop. They were worth a lot more in comic shops, even then. Sadly, eBay has made this kind of discovery a lot harder to come by.
I'm actually a little ashamed that I immediately thought of eBay worth rather than the worth of the books themselves. And yeah eBay has really killed this kind of treasure hunting.
What a great find as a kid though!! I'd like to come by that myself now
Awesome. That's all I have to say
and that is all that needs to be said – I'll pop some scans up to give everyone an idea of the art inside!