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What was your GREATEST COMIC FIND EVER????

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darkmark (RIP):
Don't know about ever, but in 1964, I walked into a nickel-a-book store and walked out with an ish of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1.  Wish I still had it.

bminor:
Well, these things do still happen. Very rarely though.
Last Saturday, my wife and I were out in the country, small town, very small town. A hundred miles from the nearest big city.
Went into a small shop/part antique store.
Saw some cool old plastic models from the early 70's still in the box! Cool!
Saw a basket with some comics, 80's, 90's vintage, $2 each, beat up. Nothing exciting.
Kept looking, saw a bin with a pile of comics in bags. Must have been about 30 or so in there.
Just about all Dell 10¢, what was so unusual is that they were all in near mint condition! Looked like they had been read once and put away in a drawer!
Looking through the pile, first I see Bugs Bunny(a few Bugs Giant Size), Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry. They are all looking oh so nice. I am thinking it would be really nice if there were something special in here. A few beautiful Tarzans with painted covers, some Lone Rangers.
I see a couple of Walt Disney Comics and Stories, Barks! 
Then the best, Uncle Scrooge 9 and 11! Huzzah!
Best part of the deal, the Tarzans and Lone Rangers are $11 each, but everything else is $4 each!
I told my wife, (who was patiently standing next to me) that I was shaking with excitement!
She said Happy Birthday, and bought them for me!
B.

CBpop:
Happy Birthday B  ;)
You have a good wife. I have experienced the same gift event from my wife. We were at the Big Flea where I found several Uncle Scrooge and 4-Color Dell Grandma Duck books by Barks for $2.50 each. It was close to Valentine's Day, so it was my Valentine gift.  Although not what you would call a fantastic find, they were complete and in VG condition.. good enough for re reading.  I still like to have the book in my hand and smell the pulp  ;D 

Finds like yours and mine are what keep me searching.... which is part of the fun. I keep hoping to find a Mint copy of 1949 Dell 25 cent Christmas Parade # 1. An all time favorite of mine.
Happy reading

Poztron:
I belatedly happened upon this thread.

Probably my best, purely "lucky" find, was the box of old MAD magazines put out on the street next to our flat. We live next door to a SRO welfare hotel (yes, it's very urban), and probably some hotel resident had died or had been evicted, and this precious box of MADs that had been saved for decades was given the boot. It included several issues in the #25-#30 range, when MAD had just switched to magazine format. Nice to find for free.

Aside from that, I think my best comic finds were at a few (very few) comic cons in the early '70s where I snapped up Quality comics in merely "fair to good" shape for $1-$3. These were old '40s issues, like SMASH, CRACK, FEATURE, The BARKER, HIT, NATIONAL, BLACKHAWK, etc. Perfectly good, though with rolled spines in many cases, due to enthusiastic reading in their past history. Also plenty of Fiction House titles. When "condition is King" one can obtain some marvelous stuff in mediocre condition.

erikpsmith:
My biggest find? Well, it was actually a friend of mine who found it.

At a thrift store in the '70s, he found a copy of Flash 105 -- the first issue of the revived Flash, continuing the old numbering of the '40s. He paid $1.

I traded him for it. The first comic book store in Spokane had just opened, and my friend really wanted a title they had on display. Something from Marvel, a sleepy title no one really cared about. I paid ten whole dollars for X-Men Number 1, which seemed a little overpriced to me, and immediately made the exchange.

I still have my copy of Flash 105. My friend, alas, sold his copy of X-Men years ago.

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