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What was your GREATEST COMIC FIND EVER????

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bminor:
You know the story. Somebody you meets has a bunch of comics they read as a kid. FF #1, early Spiderman, etc.
You ask, "Do you have them"
They answer, " Nah, my Mom threw them out years ago"
You now weep silent tears to self.

This happened to me.
In the early 1970's I asked my older sisters boy friend (who was to become brother-in-law) "Do you have any comics?"
"Well I did, but my Mom threw them out" He remembers having all those great early Marvel books,  "sigh".

Well what kind of great finds have you had in your past, or perhaps a near miss.

I remember going to a rummage sale when I was a kid and buying a few comics, Archie and the like, nothing to exciting.
Later going through them at home, I discovered when I opened a Archie, inside was a coverless X-Men #2, pretty dog gone neat!
B.

KingFaraday:
I've never had one involving comics although I know of one. A friend had an older sister who left him some prime funny and teen comics but his big score was from an advertisement he placed in the newspaper back in the late 60s offering to buy old comics. A guy out in the state responded that he had a bunch of old comics he wanted to get rid of. He ended up with a huge cache of 40s and 50s comics.
I used to have a fantasy that the old Fawcett printing plant here had file cabinets of old Captain Marvel comics and I would somehow acquire them. Everyone I ever talked to that had worked there told me they new saw any comics there.
My big scores were in sports cards. My uncle passed on his 50s baseball cards to me and my brother in law gave me his 50s-60s baseball and football cards one year for Christmas.

Yoc:
Nice stories guys.  Thanks for sharing.
Back in the early 80s I traded a Byrne X-Men (forget which) for a good condition X-Men #19 (1966)(vs The Mimic).  I was happy with the trade.

erwin-k:
Back about 1967 a college friend told me about a box of old comics up in the barn of a family member. A month or two later he brought it in. A History Professor and I bought the box from him.

The Prof, who wrote multiple books about films, took all the movie cowboy books. That included several issues of the Buster Crab and John Wayne titles. I got a number of Fawcett books including Master Comics, plus the Shadow & Green Hornet, all titles I collected at the time.

narfstar:
Late 70's I bought a Showcase 6 and 7 for $2 each while paying $5 for then hot comic Howard the Duck #1. I bought a copy of Brave and Bold 28 in the mid 80's for $100 and bought Harvey Hits #3 at a flea market for $30. 

Unusual find that was special to me was at Heroes Con a few years ago Sparkman #1, because I love oddball stuff.

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