That one week in '92 when everything went right at the shop

I worked at a comic shop in Portland back in high school and we had this one insane week where a guy walked in with a longbox full of early Action Comics issues. His grandma was cleaning out his uncle's basement and told him to just get rid of them. We bought the whole box for $200 and there was a Superman #1 in there that graded out at like 6.5. The owner took us all out for pizza that Friday and I still remember the feeling of flipping through those books before they got sent off. Has anyone else ever stumbled into a find that felt too good to be real?

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skyler_fox7223d ago

500 dollars for a slab grade on that Superman #1 would have been a steal on its own... but I wonder how many people walked right past that longbox before you guys took a chance on it. The real magic of that week probably wasn't even the money, it was having one of those moments where the universe just hands you a win. I've had a couple garage sale finds over the years that felt similar, but nothing that clean.

king.ruby23d ago

That comic shop owner must have felt like he won the lottery. A 6.5 Superman #1 for two hundred bucks is basically theft. Still beats any eBay find I've ever had.