Category: Craigslist
Posted by: kidchris
Hey, I realized soon after last week's Comics on Craigslist post that the links i send you to will soon expire. I'll have to get Dafna to figure out a way to make the links somehow viewable far down the line... she's the brains of this operation, I'm just the eye candy.
ATLANTA, GA- CGC your comics ! Local Authorized Dealer Available - $16 (Lilburn, GA)- Is that $20,000 in real dollars, or speculation fueled 'if people bought all these 9.8 Civil War: Frontlines #1's then I'd have 20,000 dollars' dollars? If it's not obvious, I'm no fan of the CGC... but at least Odin comics, with 2 locations in Lilburn and Snellville (laff), has the good humor to acknowledge them as slabs.
DALLAS, TX- AVENGER WEST COAST - $50- I'm fairly certain an entire run of Avenger's West Coast does not fetch $50 dollars, so issue 77 shouldn't be worth that even if it does feature Sattanish. Also what's the deal with needing 4 pictures of the same cover? I see that your a very handsome young man, but one picture would have probably done the trick.
PHOENIX, AZ- HUGE BOX OF IMAGE COMICS - $75- From the looks of this fellow's collection, it looks like for a long time Image was only publishing First issues.
HONOLULU, HA- Read the Comics while Surfing this Board - Honestly, why the hell would you even bother to learn something cool like surfing if your just gonna dork in up by surfing on a board made of comics.
BOSTON, MA- ps3 mortal combat marval comics game - $80- Can't even look at this ad without my brain hurting. I assume he means to say it's that MK vs DC game that no one really cares about. I know that the internet has nothing but lousy spellers, but come on he spelled Marvel with and A, knew instead of new, and Kombat with a C.
Unfortunately no two-fers this week, but there are plenty o' people looking to trade with or for comic books.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- TATTOOS FOR COMIC BOOKS+MORE- Been itching to get that Wolverine tatoo but have no money. The solution is simple stupid, just trade in your Wolverine Comics collection for ink on your arm. What's that? You never actually read any Wolverine comics and just think he's super cool from that aweful early 90's cartoon, aweful movies and mostly aweful video games... well that's probably for the best then.
DALLAS- TX- Trade these for your comics - $1- Given up on trying to get in shape, or learn how to play the guitar, or trying to pick up chicks on your motorcycles. Don't worry, comics will never mock you. Comics will never laugh at your horribly undefined arms, as your fingers clumsely stumble through the first tabs of Foo Fighters "Everlong" for the girl your trying to impress who you said you would teach to ride a motorcycle. Loser.
EDIT: Just realized that the guitar featured is in fact a toy Guitar Hero guitar. So the statement stands. Loser.
DALLAS- TX- Trade comic book collection for aquarium - $300- I guess if your tired at looking at dumb fish all day and would rather put your eyetracks all over some comics, give this guy a call.
PHOENIX- AZ- TRADE MY COLLECTIBLES FOR ......- A tortoise? A fucking tortoise? Who would trade a reptile (and yes, they are reptiles) for comics? Also, what the hell do you need with ammo, a vacuum, cologne... and a tortoise? This does not auger well.
MOST DISTURBING ITEM OF THE DAY!!!
DETROIT, MI- Boys underwear size 4/4T many pairs gently worn no stains- Only reason this was flagged was because apparently some of the underwear being sold is comic book related. I can only hope the conversation to pick up this item doesn't sound like this.
"Hi, i want to pick up the young boys underwear"
"Oh yes, there's about 17 pair"
"You mentioned in the ad that they were gently worn."
"Yes."
"So they were worn?"
"Ya."
"Good, i'll be there soon."
ATLANTA, GA- CGC your comics ! Local Authorized Dealer Available - $16 (Lilburn, GA)- Is that $20,000 in real dollars, or speculation fueled 'if people bought all these 9.8 Civil War: Frontlines #1's then I'd have 20,000 dollars' dollars? If it's not obvious, I'm no fan of the CGC... but at least Odin comics, with 2 locations in Lilburn and Snellville (laff), has the good humor to acknowledge them as slabs.
DALLAS, TX- AVENGER WEST COAST - $50- I'm fairly certain an entire run of Avenger's West Coast does not fetch $50 dollars, so issue 77 shouldn't be worth that even if it does feature Sattanish. Also what's the deal with needing 4 pictures of the same cover? I see that your a very handsome young man, but one picture would have probably done the trick.
PHOENIX, AZ- HUGE BOX OF IMAGE COMICS - $75- From the looks of this fellow's collection, it looks like for a long time Image was only publishing First issues.
HONOLULU, HA- Read the Comics while Surfing this Board - Honestly, why the hell would you even bother to learn something cool like surfing if your just gonna dork in up by surfing on a board made of comics.
BOSTON, MA- ps3 mortal combat marval comics game - $80- Can't even look at this ad without my brain hurting. I assume he means to say it's that MK vs DC game that no one really cares about. I know that the internet has nothing but lousy spellers, but come on he spelled Marvel with and A, knew instead of new, and Kombat with a C.
Unfortunately no two-fers this week, but there are plenty o' people looking to trade with or for comic books.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN- TATTOOS FOR COMIC BOOKS+MORE- Been itching to get that Wolverine tatoo but have no money. The solution is simple stupid, just trade in your Wolverine Comics collection for ink on your arm. What's that? You never actually read any Wolverine comics and just think he's super cool from that aweful early 90's cartoon, aweful movies and mostly aweful video games... well that's probably for the best then.
DALLAS- TX- Trade these for your comics - $1- Given up on trying to get in shape, or learn how to play the guitar, or trying to pick up chicks on your motorcycles. Don't worry, comics will never mock you. Comics will never laugh at your horribly undefined arms, as your fingers clumsely stumble through the first tabs of Foo Fighters "Everlong" for the girl your trying to impress who you said you would teach to ride a motorcycle. Loser.
EDIT: Just realized that the guitar featured is in fact a toy Guitar Hero guitar. So the statement stands. Loser.
DALLAS- TX- Trade comic book collection for aquarium - $300- I guess if your tired at looking at dumb fish all day and would rather put your eyetracks all over some comics, give this guy a call.
PHOENIX- AZ- TRADE MY COLLECTIBLES FOR ......- A tortoise? A fucking tortoise? Who would trade a reptile (and yes, they are reptiles) for comics? Also, what the hell do you need with ammo, a vacuum, cologne... and a tortoise? This does not auger well.
MOST DISTURBING ITEM OF THE DAY!!!
DETROIT, MI- Boys underwear size 4/4T many pairs gently worn no stains- Only reason this was flagged was because apparently some of the underwear being sold is comic book related. I can only hope the conversation to pick up this item doesn't sound like this.
"Hi, i want to pick up the young boys underwear"
"Oh yes, there's about 17 pair"
"You mentioned in the ad that they were gently worn."
"Yes."
"So they were worn?"
"Ya."
"Good, i'll be there soon."
06/11: Comics on Craigslist
Category: Craigslist
Posted by: kidchris
Back when I used to live in the big city of Los Angeles I would ever so often peruse the Craigslist for collections of older comics. Not really something you would do if you were only looking to pick up a specific issue, but really great if you were looking to pick up a full (or near full) run of a series that has 1. never been collected into trades 2. been collected but you are currently unemployed.
The latter was usually the case for me, but every once in a while I would come across a cherry of a deal. Example: I once got an entire run of Sandman for thirty bucks from a nice, young lady living in the valley, and on the plus side the books were not in too shabby of condition. Also, since Craigslist lacks the anonymity of eBay you often get the to meet the people abandoning their comics in person. A positive or a negative depending on how you look at the situation. In attempts to strike conversations with the sellers I was often times refered to comic shops i would have probably never have shopped at or even known about... such was the case of how I learned about Continental Comics in Northridge, my prefered shop while I lived in the area.
Anyway that was a bit of a tangent. Let's go to Craigslist:
San Fernando Valley, CA- Rare PUNISHER For Sale - $2500 (yea yea)- Now, I'm fairly sure we're all aware of how Frank Castle would one day become the Punisher... something to do with the mafia and the Viet Cong, maybe not in that particular order. But no less that $2000? Yea, keep dreaming fella.
Denver, Co - YOUNGBLOOD COMICS. ROB LIEFELD! - $10. For those of you new to the comic business, this is not exactly the best way to advertise your product. We try to keep the acknoledgement of Liefeld to a minimum.
San Francisco, CA- comics (alpha fight) - $20- Nothing too note worthy about this ad. I just enjoy the text in the body: comics. tired of having them. Amen, brother.
Manhatten, NY- First Graphic Novel (1st to call itself a Graphic Novel) 1976 - $200- Buy the book that helped comics reach a new level of pretension. No longer are you a geek for reading Batman, you are now an intellectual. Geez, you could have at least proof read your cut and paste job from Wikipedia. Imagine if i turned in a term paper that read: Nikola Tesla, this article is about the man, if you were looking for the 80's hair metal band with the hit "Cumin' atcha' live" please click Tesla (band). That would just look sloppy.
Bostin, MA- New Kids On The Block (NKOTB) 12 Comic Books - $50- Um, I know they're on tour again, but really? That's more that four bucks a pop. I really don't think the badly drawn adventures of Danny, Donny, Joey, Jordan, and Jonathan have appreciated that much.
Another great aspect of Craigslists. Two-fers!
Chicago, IL- Buffy Comic and South Beach Diet book - $5. What? An overweight Buffy fan? Surprise, surprise.
Portland, OR- Multi- Purpose Ladder - $100- This one is a little cryptic. I mean anyone could use a multi-purpose ladder, but what the hell am I gonna do with 100 Image comics? Also, I was a bit confused by the caption : NOT ALL COMICS ARE PICTURED. Considering no comics are pictured in the post, does that mean all the images have been ripped out, reducing them only to text?
Have no money due to a failing economy, but are rich in comics? Then do what I do, trade your comics for services.
Long Island, NY- guitar lessons for comic books !!! music lessons 4 comics !!!-Pretty much speaks for itself.
Los Angeles, CA- Massage Trade for>?- What won't this guy accept for giving a massage? Concert Tix, Computer Lessons, Facials, Tarot Readings, Magic Cards, Spiderman Comics. This post really makes me wish we did live in a bartering type society with no money. "Hey can you fix my car?""Sure, give me a facial."
The latter was usually the case for me, but every once in a while I would come across a cherry of a deal. Example: I once got an entire run of Sandman for thirty bucks from a nice, young lady living in the valley, and on the plus side the books were not in too shabby of condition. Also, since Craigslist lacks the anonymity of eBay you often get the to meet the people abandoning their comics in person. A positive or a negative depending on how you look at the situation. In attempts to strike conversations with the sellers I was often times refered to comic shops i would have probably never have shopped at or even known about... such was the case of how I learned about Continental Comics in Northridge, my prefered shop while I lived in the area.
Anyway that was a bit of a tangent. Let's go to Craigslist:
San Fernando Valley, CA- Rare PUNISHER For Sale - $2500 (yea yea)- Now, I'm fairly sure we're all aware of how Frank Castle would one day become the Punisher... something to do with the mafia and the Viet Cong, maybe not in that particular order. But no less that $2000? Yea, keep dreaming fella.
Denver, Co - YOUNGBLOOD COMICS. ROB LIEFELD! - $10. For those of you new to the comic business, this is not exactly the best way to advertise your product. We try to keep the acknoledgement of Liefeld to a minimum.
San Francisco, CA- comics (alpha fight) - $20- Nothing too note worthy about this ad. I just enjoy the text in the body: comics. tired of having them. Amen, brother.
Manhatten, NY- First Graphic Novel (1st to call itself a Graphic Novel) 1976 - $200- Buy the book that helped comics reach a new level of pretension. No longer are you a geek for reading Batman, you are now an intellectual. Geez, you could have at least proof read your cut and paste job from Wikipedia. Imagine if i turned in a term paper that read: Nikola Tesla, this article is about the man, if you were looking for the 80's hair metal band with the hit "Cumin' atcha' live" please click Tesla (band). That would just look sloppy.
Bostin, MA- New Kids On The Block (NKOTB) 12 Comic Books - $50- Um, I know they're on tour again, but really? That's more that four bucks a pop. I really don't think the badly drawn adventures of Danny, Donny, Joey, Jordan, and Jonathan have appreciated that much.
Another great aspect of Craigslists. Two-fers!
Chicago, IL- Buffy Comic and South Beach Diet book - $5. What? An overweight Buffy fan? Surprise, surprise.
Portland, OR- Multi- Purpose Ladder - $100- This one is a little cryptic. I mean anyone could use a multi-purpose ladder, but what the hell am I gonna do with 100 Image comics? Also, I was a bit confused by the caption : NOT ALL COMICS ARE PICTURED. Considering no comics are pictured in the post, does that mean all the images have been ripped out, reducing them only to text?
Have no money due to a failing economy, but are rich in comics? Then do what I do, trade your comics for services.
Long Island, NY- guitar lessons for comic books !!! music lessons 4 comics !!!-Pretty much speaks for itself.
Los Angeles, CA- Massage Trade for>?- What won't this guy accept for giving a massage? Concert Tix, Computer Lessons, Facials, Tarot Readings, Magic Cards, Spiderman Comics. This post really makes me wish we did live in a bartering type society with no money. "Hey can you fix my car?""Sure, give me a facial."
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