Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Went to a comic show last Sunday for the first time in a while. As soon as I walked in the door all I heard from the dealers was griping about how nobody was there, and those who were would all disappear as soon as the Patriots game started. As it was, I didn't really find much to buy, one guy had some cheap '70's Marvels in great shape, so I picked up several issues of Godzilla of all things, and another guy had a couple of my missing Power Man's. Could only find a couple of cheap Ripleys Believe it or Nots, got a bunch of comics for the kids, some for now and some for Christmas. And for two bucks I finally got my last missing issue of Howard the Duck magazine, which was exciting. It's always fun to go look, check out the bootleg videos (no records and cd's this time), the Japanese toys, etc. But most of what was for sale was either crap (a lot of recent indy stuff), overpriced even though "on sale" (a barely good copy of Ripleys #4, the first issue, was half price at $10, when the guide said it should be $5), and pedigree stuff that is out of my price range. There's plenty of '70s Marvels to be had if you want to pay $6 or $7 apiece for a fine condition, but that's still a bit much for me. At the rate I'm going, it'll take about 1000 years to complete my collection, but I'm in no rush, since I don't really have the room for the stuff anyway. Someday Justin's going to want his closet for his own stuff, then I'll have to seek other accomodations for the 20 or so longboxes that are in there.

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