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Finally got through a full box of back issues without a single duplicate
Ive been digging through a long box I bought at a garage sale in Akron about six months ago. Its got like 200 issues from the early 90s, mostly random X-Men and Spider-Man runs. This week I finally sat down and sorted the whole thing by number, and I didn't find one single double. Usually I pull out five or six repeats and it drives me nuts. But this box was clean, all different issues, and even a few I'd been hunting for years like an X-Factor #6 with no spine stress. It felt like the universe finally gave me a break after months of flea market junk. Has anyone else ever lucked into a box that was actually organized already?
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william32025d ago
Hold up, you found an X-Factor #6 with no spine stress in a garage sale box? Those early X-Factor issues are notorious for that, the slightest bend and you get that white line down the middle. Ive got a copy that looks like someone used it as a coaster. But man, a whole box with no duplicates and organized by number? Thats almost too good to be true. Usually people who dump boxes at garage sales just tossed em in there random, not sorted. If the previous owner was anal enough to arrange them by issue, they probably would have kept their keys separate. You sure nobody cherry picked the good stuff before you? Not trying to knock your luck, but Ive seen too many "sealed long boxes" at shows that turned out to be filler issues with one or two decent books on top. Hope it stays clean all the way through though, that would be a solid score for what you paid.
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morgan.joseph25d ago
Did you actually flip through every single book in the box before you bought it, or did you just see the top layer and assume it was all gold? Because I swear, Ive been burned before buying a "near complete run" from a garage sale that turned out to be nothing but annuals and issues 80 through 100 of a series nobody cares about. That X-Factor #6 you mentioned is a huge warning sign to me. If the guy was organized enough to sort by number and not have any duplicates, hes not the type to accidentally leave a key issue in there for pocket change. My gut says he either knew exactly what he was doing and hid the good ones, or someone else already swooped in and took them. Just saying, before you count that as a win, flip every single book and check the condition. The spine on that #6 might be clean, but the surrounding issues could be trashed.
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