your best bargin

[andy20066]

what has been your best bargin when it comes to comics or annuals. mine was when my mum picked up for me a 1960 beano annual for about £2 or £3

[starscape]

First issue of Hurricane for, well, nothing! Went something like:

Cheers for buying a few comics. You might as well take that old one too.

[Bethanys grandad]

A few years ago Went into a second hand book shop in Leigh on sea under a table was a cardboard in it was Famous Monsters of filmland no1, 3,6 and couple of other early 60s monster mags I asked how much expecting silly price from the guy, fiver the lot was his reply , the money almost cought fire with the speed I pulled it out of my wallet.

[Dunder Ed]

I got the Beano and Dandy Annuals from 1955 for £10 each in near mint condition. My best bargain though was 500 comics for 99 p they included hundreds of Beanos and Dandys, a huge pile of Busters and some great other IPC titles.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

When a friend of mine was clearing out his shed, and he gave me three big bags full of all his old comics. This included:

-Oink! issues 0-50, plus the two annuals and a Summer Special
-Around 200 Busters from the mid-late 1980s
-Several issues of Nipper
-Around 20-ish Beano and Dandy annuals from the 1970s to the 1980s

All this for free!

Last year I went to a shop in London and found the first two Willy The Kid books for £3 each, that was nice as well.

[stevezodiac]

In the late 60s my mate Terry Smith gave me Daredevil no. 1 which I still have.

[steelclaw]

My best bargin, must have been when I bought on ebay all the Buster & Jets from 1971, I was well happy with that but imagine my surprised when I went to pick them up their was the complete 22 Jets with them as well total cost £17.

[Phoenix]

What are you doing, steelclaw, posting during the first half of the Spurs v Inter game on ITV? Welcome back though, nevertheless. Where have you been?

[steelclaw]

Phoenix check your messages.
My pc is right next to my TV 3-0 COYS

[Phoenix]

Fine, done. Now you check yours. We've been at cross purposes.

[felneymike]

£25 for the first year's worth of Chums (the official annual, somebody on Ebay was selling an amateur binding of the first year for about £40 recently, it immediately reappeared for £200).

A whole year of The Boys' Friend from 1903-4, possibly the publisher's file volume (though it doesn't have a "Please return to Bear Alley" sticker, nor all the free gifts), for £49. I got the previous year, bound in the same way and with water damage stains going up to the same height, for £170. The two are now reunited on my shelf, I wonder how long they had been apart?

The first 25 issues of Union Jack (though amateur bound and without covers) for £50. My maximum bid was £175, but nobody else was interested.

Three School Chums, one of the Teddy Lester books which was re-published in 1949 (many people think these are the first editions, for some reason) for 99p. I've seen the same one, with a crude felt tip drawing on the cover, on sale for £49!

I'm sure there was others, can't think now. I have the first volume of The Captain in amazing condition, and an amateur binding of volume 2 in also-amazing condition, and I'm pretty sure I didn't spend a huge amount on either.

[bubbadog]

So many over the years but the best must be an original 1940 Beano Annual for £4. Some scribble on the cover, back cover detached, no spine but all pages in good condition, bought at a local car boot sale, seller told me it was 1950's but I knew what it was as soon as I picked it up.

[babington]

I bought a copy of 'Batman The Killing Joke' first print by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland for 12p, sent it off to CGC and it came back graded at 9.8, so it's worth about £60-£80 now. I'd gladly swap it for a 1940 Beano book though!

[Digifiend]

So many over the years but the best must be an original 1940 Beano Annual for £4. Some scribble on the cover, back cover detached, no spine but all pages in good condition, bought at a local car boot sale, seller told me it was 1950's but I knew what it was as soon as I picked it up.

Gee, the seller didn't know his Beano history did he? If it was 1950s, it would include Biffo the Bear and not Big Eggo (only 1949 and 1950, both published in the 1940s, feature both).

[DavidKW]

25p for a 1980 Misty annual at a car boot sale.

Also same price/place for a 1972 Beezer annual & a 1969 Avengers (UK) annual.

Got the Sue Day annual from a shop for nothing, as I had been buying a lot of comics from there/being a good customer.