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Tracey and I went to the Finders Keepers markets here in Brisbane a couple of weeks ago, they’re markets that encourage up and coming designers and artists and it was their first time here.
One of the designer stalls reminded me of a post that Arjan from Dutchnid did ages ago where he was putting up his photos on the wall. I thought what Arjan had done looked quite neat but when I saw the photo curator stall …
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I hope everyone had an awesome Christmas!
How will Abe recover from such a mean gesture?!?
Be back here next week to find out!!!
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?
