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What was your best comic book "find" or aqusition ever as a child?

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bminor:
Hands down it was when I acquired Avengers #1.

This story goes back to the early 1970's.

It was late winter, early spring, 30 or so miles north of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in Anoka, my home town.

The Avengers issue in question was acquired from my neighbor Steve Shannon. He was about ten years older than I and one day his Mom called me over to her house and gave me his pile of comics.

I was very happy, Our Army at War, G.I. Combat, Our Fighting Forces, and for some reason or another he had a single issue of the Avengers, and it was #1. Of the 150 comics that I had at that time it became my favorite. I did treasure that issue.

A few months or maybe a year later and our backyard would flood in the late winter when the snow would melt.(Minnesota) We always had a large pool of water 30-40 feet across back there. I was a young teenager, and for some reason or another my little brother, a year younger than I, got ticked off at me. Well, he new how much I liked comic books, and he knew how much I liked that Avengers #1. He grabbed it and ran into the backyard and chucked it out in the middle of that pool of water...







Luckily, though, it had been a cool night in that late winter or early spring when this happened and that pool of water had frozen over.  No damage done.
I am not sure what would have happened to my brother had it not been frozen over.


B.

Yoc:
Holy crap, my heart skipped a beat there reading that B!
I thought for sure you were going to say 'and now I'm writing this from the graveside of my little brother...'
;)

Great story!

Yoc:
Let's see.  I don't have many stories of snagging a holy grail book or anything.

I did trade a med Byrne era X-Men (#144 maybe?) for a good condition X-Men #19 (April 1966).  We were both happy with the trade.

My only stroke of luck story is back in 1979-80 as a 12 year-old I bought my ONE and ONLY pack of NHL bubble gum cards.  I looked it over and packed it away in a box with the previous seasons.  I forgot about it for over 20 years until I saw Wayne Gretzky's rookie card on TV one day.  OMG!  I bought one pack with maybe 8 cards in it - AND I HAD THE ROOKIE CARD!

Now how is that for crazy lucky.  It's not mint, it's even printed off centre, but it's still his NHL rookie card.
:)

JonTheScanner:
In some sense my two best finds ever were buying THUNDER Agents #1 and Flash Gordon #1 (Al Williamson) off the stands.  Williamson instantly became my favorite artist. Tower for a short time became my favorite company. 

I did get some Golden Age Superman's (including Mr Mxyztplk (yeah that's the correct spelling for back then) meets Susie, but they weren't so special to me.

narfstar:
At Ott's Trading Post in PA several years ago I got a Prize Frankenstein 26 and Pep 44 for a buck each

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