Big score........

[Tom Foolery]

For FCBD, I hit up four LCS. The first was Mellow Blue Planet. As I’ve previously mentioned here, he’s outgrown the building he’s in and his inventory is so stacked and cluttered there is literally no room to walk anywhere in his shop. I was going to look for some IDW GIJoe oneshots in his backroom, but traffic was higher because it was FCBD, and downstacking 30 boxes to make room to wiggle into an area 1/4th the size of a closet to look for a book he might not even have….I took five free issues and promised I’d come back on a day when it wasn’t FCBD. I feel bad not buying anything when they’re giving me free shit, but there it is.
The second shop was ComiQ RaCk(the Q and C are capitalized because we are in the Quad Cities. It makes sense if you see the logo.) He was selling $100 mystery boxes that had “$200” worth of stuff in them, but I didn’t bite. I got my five free books, and also bought a recent issue of Batman:Last Halloween, just so I spent money there.
The third shop was back on the Iowa side of the river. In This Issue Comics in Bettendorf. Picked up five free issues, and found six issues in the $1 bins. Finished two Batman minis; Batman Beyond Neo Year, Batman/Bigby Wolf, and almost finished Batman:The Knight.

The fourth and final shop was an LCS that closed a few years ago, but the owner has just reopened on this side of the river. Filled a short box for $60(man, I remember when it was fill a short box for $25 or $30. Stupid inflation…) and that’s just what I did. And upstairs they literally have two rooms full of $1 boxes, but I had neither the time nor money to go thru them. Looking forward to heading back there with more disposable income in a few weeks. But here’s the 133 books I got for my $60.

Alien 2 and Alien Annual 1. Recent Marvel books based in their 20thC IPs. I don’t know how many Alien series they’ve done in the short time they’ve had the properties.
Absolute Power Ground Zero oneshot. Might already have this.
Absolute Power Task Force VII 1. From the recent DC event.
Black Adam 1.
Black Manta 1, 2, 5 and a variant of 1. Still need 3 and 4.
Blue and Gold 3. Still need 2, 5, 7, and 8.
Blue Beetle 7, 10. From the most recent ten issue ongoing.
Blue Beetle:Graduation Day 5. Variant cover.
I Am Batman 18. The final issue of Jace Fox’s ongoing. Still need most of it.
Five issues of Detective Comics. I was getting the Variant covers as they came out, now I’m finding the main covers just to have them.
Captain America 5. A variant cover homaging the ‘first’ issue of Cap’s ongoing(that was formerly Tales of Suspense, so it was actually issue 100) but it’s celebrating Wolverine’s 50th anniversary, so all the characters on the cover are Wolverine variants. Confused?
Crisis on Infinite Earths 1. Facsimile of the original, complete with original ads.
Cyborg 1,2. From the newest Dawn of DC mini. Still need 4 and 5.
Dark Crisis 1, 6. The main covers. I bought the Variants as they were coming out.
Dark Crisis:War Zone. A oneshot tie-in.
Dark Knights of Steel 6, 7. Still need 3 thru 5, 9, and 10.
DC Lazarus Planet:Revenge of the Gods 1,2. Still need 3 and 4.
DC Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun. $10 anthology. Already had it.
Dr Strange 41. From his 70s run.
Doom Patrol 9-11, 15-17. Still need 20 issues from the 80s run.
Hal Jordan/Green Lantern Corps 44. Variant cover. Five more issues to go.
Green Lantern Season Two 9, 12. Still need 1, 7, and 11.
John Stewart:Emerald Knight oneshot.
Human Target 3. Artgerm variant cover featuring Ice. Still on the lookout for the Artgerm Fire cover.
Infinite Frontier. Variant covers of 2 and 4. Regular cover of 5. Just need issue 6, but I’m annoyed I have a mix of covers.
It’s Jeff! Variant cover.
Justice League Odyssey 16 and variant of 25. Still need 17 thru 20.
Justice League Dark 21.
Justice League Infinity 2, 5, 6.
Justice League Incarnate 1(variant), 2, 4.
Justice League Last Ride 2, 3.
Justice League vs Legion of Super Heroes 1 and variant of 1. Just need issue 6.
Justice Society of America 1 Gold Edition. Reprints 1-3 of the series. Also 4-8. Just need issue 2 for a full series.
Alan Scott:Green Lantern 3. Finished the mini.
Wesley Dodd:Sandman 2, 4.
Kneel Before Zod 1, 2, 6, 7. Still need 3-5, and 8.
A bunch of Knight Terrors issues. DC released like 30 two-issue minis for this event.
Lucifer 25. Seven more to go.
Miracle Man:Silver Age 4. I have no idea what I’m missing and what I need from this series.
Morbius 32. Holy Shit, FINISHED his 90s ongoing. This was both the final issue and the final issue I was missing.
Nova 7. Also FINISHED his short lived late 90s ongoing.
Power Girl 13.
Robin 14.
Tim Drake:Robin 4-6, 9, 10, and variants of 4, 5, 7, and 10. Finished this underwhelming ongoing. Unless I want to track down the last couple varaint covers.
Robins 3, 6. Both the regular and variant covers. Still need 2 and 4.
Speed Force 2, 3. Finished the mini.
Suicide Squad 3-7, 10, 12. From the ‘22 series. Just need issue 13 and the Annual.
Superman:Last Stand on Krypton. Elseworlds Prestige oneshot from late 90s. I’m close to having all Superman oneshots. Missing Emperor Joker and a couple Amazing Spidey crossover issues.
Superman: Son of Kal-El 3, 6, 8, Annual 2021. Six more issues to go.
Superman Red and Blue 3. Just need issue 5 from this anthology series.
Superboy:Man of Tomorrow 1. Variant cover. Still need 5 and 6.
Star Wars Han Solo:Imperial Cadet 5.
Swamp Thing 4, 5, 8, 9, 10(variant) 12.
Sword of Azrael 3 and a SoA oneshot. Still need 5 and 6.
A bunch of Titans:Beast World tie-in oneshots.

There’s another Mall Show in June.

[Tom Foolery]

A small score from the mall show this weekend. A mere 22 issues. Paid $1 for the majority of them. I’ll just lump them altogether.

Batwoman 1. Got the NU52 and Rebirth issues mixed up.
Crime Syndicate 2. Variant cover. Just need issue 3.
DC Presents 2, 5, 8, 44, 45, 50, 61, 64, 70, 71, 93. A nice chunk of this late 70s/early 80s series. Missing like 17 issues, but a few of them are super HTF expensive.
Doom Patrol 1. Still missing a couple issues from Gerard Way’s Young Animal series.
Kingdom Come 1-4. I had the TPB, but finding the entire Prestige series for $4?? Hell yeah.
Multiversity: New Thunderworld Adventures oneshot. More than a decade later, I finally found the last Multiversity oneshot I was missing. Feels great crossing this one off my list.
100 Bullets 7, 64. A couple more from this series that isn’t a high priority to complete, but I find issues here and there.
ROM 18. One of the two X-Men issues. Only $1! Nice.



Next Sunday, the guy who hasn’t been here in several years is finally back in town to another show. I used to be able to fill a long box, but that’s getting harder to do. We will see how it goes.

[Tom Foolery]

After a 4 1/2 year hiatus, Alan* returned to the Quad Cities with his dealer show at the local Ramada Inn. Usually I fill up a long box for $110 bucks. But since it’s getting to the point where I have everything(and the books I’m missing aren’t gonna be in cheap boxes) I came away with 100 books for $40. And then spent another $23 on 18 $1-2 books at a couple other tables.

*you don’t know him.


Here’s what I got.

Absolute Power:Origins 2, 3. Amanda Waller’s origin story. Just need issue 1.
Absolute Power:Task Force VII 3, 5. Couple issues from a tie-in mini.
Adventureman 9. Eh. Might already have this one.
Aquaman 70. My list said I needed this one. My online checklist said I already had it. Either way, one of them was wrong. So I got it and FINISHED the mid 90s run.
Aquaman/Green Arrow:Deep Target 2-7. All but the first issue of this recent mini.
Batman Beyond 13. From the original 1999 run. For no particular reason.
Batman:Arkham Knight 1. Almost done with this video game tie in.
Black Adam 7, 8.
Black Manta 3. Just need issue 4 from this recent mini.
Cable 5. The main cover. I bought all those Alex Ross covers when they came out and skipped the regular covers on the first wave. Tracking them down has been a beeeyitch. Found a few today.
Crime Syndicate 4. Variant cover.
Conan 25, 28, 29, 31-36. From a Dark Horse series from 2003. Still need a few issues, plus the remainder of the run 37-50.
Cyborg 4. From the Dawn of DC mini. Still need issue 5.
Dark Crisis 2. The regular cover. Already had the variant.
DC vs Vampires 4.
Lazarus Planet:Revenge of the Gods 3. Variant cover.
Deadshot 5. A mini from 2005 that’s been incredibly frustrating to track down. Still missing three of the five issues. There’s nothing remarkable or expensive about this series, and I never see it. Ever.
Doom Patrol 4, 7. From the 80s run, before it got rebranded as a Vertigo title.
Unstoppable Doom Patrol 2, 3. Variant covers. Still need issue 5.
Wrath of the Eternal Warrior 14. Variant cover.
Eternal Warrior:Days of Steel 2. I was at 94 books and needed to round up to 100. Grabbed these EW books and a couple others.
Flash 48, Annual 1. From the Rebirth run.
Flash Annual 2025. From the current series.
Green Arrow 2.
Green Lantern Season 2 7, 11, 11(v) and 12(v). Just need issue 1 from Morrison’s run. And two issues from his first ‘season’.
Green Lantern Corps 3, 3 variant. From the new current ongoing.
Hellions 5. Another main cover from the Alex Ross variant.
Incorruptible 22, 23. Two more to go from this Irredeemable spin off. Also missing two issues of Irredeemable, so only four away from finishing the entire saga.
Infinite Frontier 2, 6. I’ve been getting both regular and variant covers, so I think I;’m only missing one issue. But who knows.
Justice League of America 1. They did a gimmick where the main cover had the team planting a giant US Flag ala Iwo Jima. Then they did 52 variant covers with each state’s flag instead of the US flag. Plus D.C. and Puerto Rico. I found ten different state flag variants. And I already had a bunch. Still missing a couple dozen though.
Justice League 10. Variant cover.
Justice League Incarnate 1.
Kneel Before Zod 5. Variant cover.
Legion Lost 0. Finished this Nu52 series finally. Ironically it was one of the first ones to get canned.
Legion of Super Heroes 10. Two more issues to find from Bendis’ run.
Losers 23, 25. Ohmigod FINISHED this Vertigo run finally. Found almost the entire run back in 2014. Eight more issue trickled in over the next year, and issue 24 in 2017. Been looking for these LAST TWO ISSUES for eight goddamn years.
Marauders 13. Another regular cover.
Marvel Calendar for 2020.
Mister Miracle:Source of Freedom 2, 3. Still need 4 thru 6.
Mystique 4. Dropped this after issue 2. So still need 3 and 5.
The War 3. The Prestige series that concluded The New Universe.
Untold Tales of the New Universe:Psi-Force oneshot.
Outsiders 4.
Question 6. Dropped this after the first issue. So now I need 2 thru 5.
Tim Drake:Robin 5.
Scrapper 1. Eh. An Image book about a crime fighting dog. It was one of the six I grabbed to round up to 100.
Shade the Changing Girl 9, 10. From Gerard Way’s Young Animal imprint.
Shade the Changing Woman 2. The sequel follow up mini. Missing five issues between the two series.
Shazam 2. Variant cover.
Sinister Sons 3.
Starbrand and Nightmask 5. Finally finished this mini.
Star Wars:The Last Jedi 2
Action Comics 1043, 1050. Might already have these.
Superman 5(variant cover, 8, 11, 17. Slowly filling in the gaps on the current ongoing.
Swamp Thing 5. Finished this 2005 mini.
Teen Titans Academy 4. Still need 10 and 13.
Titans 25. From the Rebirth run.
Titans 8, 8(variant) from the current run.
Turok Dinosaur Hunter 42. Just need 43 thru 47 from the 90s Valiant run.
Wicked + Divine 12.
Wonder Woman Annual 8. I’m only missing issue 72(htf iconic cover, very $$) and my run on the 1987 series will be complete.
Wonder Woman 35. From the Rebirth series.

At the secind table I bought a half dozen $2 Star Wars books, and 11 more out of a $1 box.

Star Wars 29. The book would later get subheaded as SW:Republic.
Star Wars:Empire 20, 25, 34. Eleven more issues to go.
SW Handbook:Crimson Empire
Jabba:Hunger of Princess Nambi. The last Jabba oneshot I was missing.

Batman Inc 2, 3. Just need 8 thru 10.
I Am Batman 15. Might already have this one.
Dark Web:X-Men 2. Had the variant cover. Got the main one.
Justice Society of America 2. Finished this 12 issue run.
Official Index of Marvel Team Up 4, 5.
Superman, Son of Kal-El 2. Five issues to go.
Titans United:Bloodpact 1, 2, 4. Finished the mini.

The highlight was definitely finishing up that Losers run.
The next show at the Mall is in December. Alan’s next show is his yearly garage sale in Sept. There’s probably another convention circuit before both of those, but I’m not sure when.

[anarky]

Alan? Dude, I know him! He's the dude, with the head on his neck, and two feet, one on each leg, right?

[Tom Foolery]

Alan? Dude, I know him! He's the dude, with the head on his neck, and two feet, one on each leg, right?

ohmigod, you DO know him! But for real, he’s the guy that would do 3-4 shows a year, and also has the yearly garage sale. He sells entire long boxes for $110. Whenever I post in the Big Score topic, I’d say 80-85% of what I’ve bought, I got from him.

Today, I went to my third comic show in as many weekends. Planet Funk-Con was at the convention center downtown. Unlike the other shows, like the one at the mall, this one costs $10 to get into. The reason being is that they have “celebrities” and panels and cosplay events and shit. None of which I care about, but that’s why the admission price. I only found 44 books at four(five) different tables. I mostly paid $1 each. There were a couple that were more; at one table he had 50% off everything, so a $10 book was $5, a $1 is 50 cents. I found 8 books and paid $10, which in the grand scheme is close enough to $1 each.

Here’s what I got.

Adventureman 7. Finished this series. There’ve been two more follow up minis, of which I have none of the issues.
American Vampire 2, 19. Just missing 1 and 27 and an anthology, and I’ll have all the AmVamp books. I wonder if they are any good.
Avengers:Tech-On Avengers 2. I may or may not have this?
Batgirl 23. I really want the Josh Middleton variant cover, but it’s super crazy expensive for some reason, so I got this just so my run is filled. Still need 16 and 18 from the Rebirth series.
Batman 2. Just need issue 7 and my Nu52 run is complete! This is the $10 book I paid $5 for, and justified it actually being barely more than a $1.
Batman/Outsiders 1, 2. I had the variant covers for this run. The table had $1 each or get 30 for $20 and I had 28 in my pile, so I threw these in to round it up.
Batman Adventures Continue Season Two 4. Still need 3 and 7.
Batman Beyond 1. From the Rebirth series.
Dark Knights of Steel:Allwinter 1, 2. Just need issue 6.
Doom Patrol 5, 6, 8. From the late 80s series.
Flash 346, 348, 349. Slowly filling in my original Flash run.
Flash 47. A variant cover from the Nu52 run. Still need issue 23 and the main cover of this issue.
Green Lantern War Journal 1. Still need 2, 4, 5.
Inferior5 3. Still need 1 and 4.
Jemm Son of Saturn 6, 8. Finished this series.
Legion of Super-Heroes 290. Only five more to find from the original run.
Marvel Tales:Annihilation. One of those $8 reprint books. Love grabbing them for a buck.
Night Man 21. Ultraverse series.
Omega Men 20. Still need 26, 37 and the impossible first appearance of Lobo in issue 3.
A couple Dark Horse’s SW:High Republic Adventures issues.
Action 1046.
Ultimate X-Men 9, 10. Dropped this book, but I’ll pay $1 to fill in my run.
Ultraforce 4, 5, 8-13. Almost the entire second Ultraverse series. Missing 6, 14, 15.
Uncanny Origins 13. Finally finished this late 90s Marvel series that only ran 14 issues.

I also found Psylocke 7, which came out last month and I missed it
And finally, I bought the Hero Initiative’s Superman 100 Project. Paid $15 for it, but the money goes towards creators medical bills because their insurance options suck as freelance hires.

The highlight today was definitely that Batman 2. I skipped that entire Nu52 run and mostly have paid next to nothing to fill it in anyway.

The next show is….?? I honestly don’t know. I think maybe the garage sale in Sept if I even go. It’s a drive, and I can’t fill up long boxes like I used to.

[Tom Foolery]

Big-ish score. Went to a newly re-opened LCS and browsed thru their $1 boxes. Came away with 70 books.

I Am Batman 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17. Missing seven of the 18 issue series.
Batman:The Knight 6. Just missing 2 and 5.
Blue Beetle 1-6. Just missing 8 and 9 from the Dawn of DC series.
Blue Beetle:Graduation Day 4. From the most recent mini.
Crush & Lobo 2, 4, 6, 7. Just need 5 and 8 from this father/daughter team up mini.
Lazarus Planet:Revenge of the Gods 4. Technically finished, but my issue 3 is a Variant, so still looking for that one.
Doom Patrol 1. First issue from the ‘87 series. Still missing a dozen or so issues.
Freex 16-28. Found a bunch of Ultraverse books. The print runs at the tail-end of all those series was small, so while they aren’t ‘valuable’ they aren’t easy to find. Still need 14 and 15.
Green Lantern War Journal 2. Still need 4 and 5.
Hardcase 25, 26. Final two issues of another Ultraverse series. Still need 16 thru 24.
A few Knight Terrors issues; Poison Ivy, Robin, Ravager.
Night Man 15-17, 19, 22, 23. Just need 13 and 20 from the first series. And 1-3 from the second one.
Official Marvel Index to The Avengers 4. From the ‘87 series. Covered issues 67 to 87.
Power Girl 2-5, 7, 10, 12. From the current underwhelming ongoing.
Prototype 13, 14, 16-18. Another Ultraverse book. Just need 15 now.
Tim Drake:Robin 2. The only covers I “need” now are Variants.
Shadowman 43. The final issue of the original Valiant run. Still need 38, 40, 42.
Shazam 3-6, 7(V), 9, 10(V), 11, 14(V). From a 2019 series. I had a bunch of variant covers for this series. Not sure how complete my run is to be honest.
Strangers 22, 23, Annual 1. Another Ultraverse series.
Advs of Superman:Jon Kent 2. Just missing issue 3.
Titans:Beast World 2, 3. From the mini-Event. Still need the rest of the series.
Titans:Beast World Tour:Gotham and Titans:Beast World Tour:Star City. The last two tie-in oneshots I was missing.

Not a lot(for me) but I filled in some more gaps. Finding a bunch of Ultraverse books was nice.

[Tom Foolery]

By no means a ‘Big Score’ whatsoever, but I noticed I was missing an issue of Daredevil so I went to one of the LCS in town I don’t frequent that much(it’s a 20 minute drive, whereas my main guy is about 4-8 minutes depending on traffic…not important)

But they had recently acquired a large collection from someone and there was quite a selection of items from the 60s up to almost current books. Obviously, some were way out of my price range,; I overheard the owner tell another customer they had sold ASM 129 for $3600 for example. But I did find a handful of books between $3 and $6 that I was fairly certain wouldn’t pop up again in my searches for awhile, so I just grabbed them.

Elseworld’s Finest:Supergirl & Batgirl oneshot. A Prestige issue from 1997.
Injustice 12 and Injustice:YearTwo 1 and 7. I’m about 8 issues away across the first four years/series from having a full run.
Power of Shazam 42. Just need the Preview “0” issue, the Annual, and issue 46 for a full run of this late 90s run.
Superman:Last Son of Earth 2. Finished this two-issue Prestige elseworld series.
X-Men Classics 2. Finished this reprint mini series from 1983 that preceded the more recognizable ongoing X-Men Classics book.

Always gratifying to cross books off my list.

[Tom Foolery]

Quick visit to two LCS yesterday. Found some recent back issues I had missed, because sometimes my guy will only order the Variant covers and he only gets 1 or 2 copies. But I also found some back issues I was looking for. Some I paid $1, $2, $3, or cover price for.

Absolute Batman 9. After I ‘dropped’ this series, I decided to undrop it and had to find the issue I missed.
Doctor Strange:Fall Sunrise 4. Finished this Trad Moore mini that I didn’t particularly enjoy, but I am compelled to be a completist.
Green Lantern Season Two 1. Finished this Grant Morrison series, but still need a couple from ‘Season 1’.
Harley Quinn 14. Variant Cover.
Hardcase 20, 21, 24. Need six more issues from this Ultraverse title.
Injustice Year Four 9, 10. Finished Year Four, still need 14 more issues from Years One thru Five.
Official Index to The Avengers 5, 6. Finished the 2nd volume from the 90s. Still need a few from the first cardstock series.
Solution 3-12, 16, 17. Another Ultraverse series almost completed.
Star Wars Bounty Hunters 16, 19, 22, 37. Still need 12 more including the first eight issues.

[Tom Foolery]

It’s my Anniversary! So naturally, I got up super early and drove 90 minutes to the middle of fuckall nowhere Illinois for the annual garage sale. I only came home with 88 books for $35. It’s a far cry from when I could fill up three long boxes. Factoring in the gas and time, Maybe I should just wait until he comes to the Quad Cities from now on.

Here’s what I got.

Batman:Reptilian 4. Just need issue 3 from this recent Garth Ennis mini.
I Am Batman 12. Six more issues to go.
Black Adam 2, 3, 5, 6, 12. Just need 9 thru 11.
Capt Atom 0. Finally finished this Nu52 series. It was one of the first ones cancelled, but the ‘0’ issue has eluded me…until now.
Crush & Lobo 1. Variant cover.
Curse of Brimstone Annual 1. Finished the series.
Dark Crisis 4, 5. Found the regular covers.
Blood of the Demon 5. Finished this John Byrne mini from ‘05.
Doom Patrol 17. Finished the ‘02 series.
Eternal Warriors. Found four oneshots from ‘98. Two more to go.
Freedom Fighters 9. Still need issue 6 from the 2011 series.
Freex 15. Ultraverse book. Just need issue 14 now.
Future State:Gotham 1-4, 9, 14-17. Still need 12 and 18. Not a priority though.
Green Lantern/Green Arrow 4. Reprint book from the 80s. I might already have this, but it’s classic O’Niel and Adams.
Hardcase 19. Ultraverse book. Five more to find.
Some Hellblazer issues.
Invisibles 6. From the third series.
Injustice2 2, Annual 2.
James Bond:Agent of Spectre 2.
Justice League Dark 9.
Lucifer 36. Six more to go.
LoSh:Millennium 2. Variant cover.
Mantra 2, 5-7. Finished her second Ultraverse series.
Marauders 1. Regular cover. Which I may already have, but I think I only had the Bagley variant cover.
Mister Miracle 20. Finished the 80s series.
Night Man 13. Ultraverse book. Just need issue 20.
Old Man Quill 2, 6-12. Just need 1, 3-5.
Prime 9. Ultraverse book. Just need 10 and 11 from his second series.
Robin 4, 5. Still need the main cover of issue 13, but otherwise finished.
Robins 3. Variant cover. Might already have this.
Rune 1, 2. Ultraverse book. Finished his second series(which was like three issues long).
Shadowman 17, 18. From his second run.
Shazam 10.
Suicide Squad:King Shark 2.
Suicide Squad:Black Files 1.
Superboy:Man of Tomorrow 6. Still need issue 5.
Action Comics 1040.
Superman:Son of Kal-El 1. Just need 9, 13, and 15.
Star Wars:Lando,Double or Nothing 1. Finished the mini.
T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents 9. Finished the 2011 DC series.
Ultraforce 2 and Ultraforce 6. From two different series.
Wolverine Through The Years. Freebie oneshot. Didn’t recognize it, but may already have it.
Wonder Woman 46-49. Regular covers.
Wonder Woman:Evolution 5. Just need 7, 8.
Warlock 2, 3. Finished the 2004 mini.
Wildstorm:Michael Cray 3, 6, 9. Five more to find.
Apocalypse and the X-Tracts 5. The very last Age of X-Man issue I was missing.

Not much, but still crossed a few more books off my list.
There’s a show at the beginning of November, and then another mall show at the beginning of Dec.
Striving to be completely caught up on my reading by the first of the year(or by the end of January) and then log the last four years worth of books onto cbrealm.