A channel dedicated to the hunting of rare and valuable comic books among the flea markets, yard sales, and forgotten long boxes of New England... plus the occasional comic book show or two! We show how you can build a great comic book collection without spending a ton of money, plus great information and commentary on all the comics we find!
Go comic hunting in these places next: U.K., Italy, Norway, France, Belgium, Germany, Turkey, India, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Brazil, Peru, Mexico....There are so many creators that live in these countries too and they go to cons there. Mark Millar's in the UK, Simone Bianchi in Italy, Fabian Nicieza in South America, I heard Bob Layton now lives in Korea and Mike Zeck now lives in the Philippines. You can meet Stan Sakai and Peach Momoko in Japan and Artgerm in Singapore. Look hard enough and you'll find Alan Moore in Australia and have your Swamp Thing comics signed.
Very, very cool! I love Steppo and his absolutely impressive wealth of knowledge! And if you like chicken fried steak, you've got to come down here to Ft. Worth. I could recommend some places that will blow your socks off. Great video, man!
Mike!!!!!! Wow!!!!! What an amazing opportunity you had in Portland! I am so happy for you and your haul. Amazing Schomberg gifts you received. Thank you for sharing.
Those two dudes need to stop eating at Waffle House and guzzling that gravy on "chicken fried steak" for brekkie. Or they won't be around to collect comics much longer.
Great update, love the pace and variety of your adventures in comics, that collecto6 is legend and is on comicbookgeek channel...those guys have multimillion collections but still grab common and modern classics, art covers etc...love the superman and josh middleton new mutants pick ups as i picked those up this past year and also last month an "Alec Holland" #9! Best cover i agree...thanks for keeping the show so much fun and balanced!
Excalibur looked like an incredible store. I love the fact that its second generation. Most of the stores in suburban Boston are on the smaller side without the giant pile of back issues. I love the idea of "New to the Store" boxes. Thats great for regulars.
I am dying at the idea of Mike shaking kids down for their lunch money. All jokes aside, seems like there are some phenomenal folks in the comics scene all around the Pacific Northwest, so cool to see how uniting this hobby is for folks all over.
Oh man! Excalibur is SO GOOD! I really like chatting with Debbie. I was in there maybe the day before you guys were, wish I could have met you both. I love Tasteecat as well. Ken is also great and fun to chat with. Its amazing to see Portland start to get some shine again.
Oh man! What a trip! What deal did you make the Comic Gods to have such a time?? To be able to hold the first issues of Batman? And gifts of grandeur! What a host Stephen is! I've seen him with the Comic Collector Geek many times. Interesting guy! When Kamandi came out in the early 70's- it rocked my world!! Loved it! I wish Kirby had stayed longer than around 12 issues on the series he did at DC work at that time, (but what a lasting effect those issues have had! Kamandi was named after the bunker he crawled out of when his Grandpa died- "Command D". Thanks for sharing this awesome time Mike!!
Mike thanks for sharing your trip to Oregon with us!! Your friend was very cool to give your that Schomburg commission. A Lovely piece of art. Now you just have to figure out where to hang it!!
All-Star Superman is a great story… a lot better than the All-Star Batman. Definitely one of the best Superman stories to have come out in the last 20 years, and the animated film serves the comic justice.
Incredible. Not only for the original art, but that comics shop with all the back issues. Man, that looked like heaven and it was so clean and organized. Thank you for a fantastic video.
I have to give you props for your reading choices the last few months: Sandman, Usagi Yojimbo (one of my personal favorites, I wish I had picked up his first appearance when it was affordable, and All-Star Superman, best Superman run ever). I stopped in 1 comic shop in Portland on FCBD a couple years ago while on a trip to Seattle. Unfortunately it was less than impressive. Small amount of comics, they had a sale going on but no indication of which items were for sale. Anyway, here is a little tip on your Dave Stevens artwork hunt: Hellboy's Weird Tales #7 which has a pin-up of Hellboy by Mr. Stevens himself. Keep up the enjoyable content.
Love the video, sounds like an awesome trip. Loved seeing that Spirit #22. That is one of my all time comic covers, I don't own a copy, but I just love that Eisner piece.
Marvel Tales Annual 1 & 2 are really underrated books in my opinion. They are the 1st reprintings of all those 1st appearances ever and are really hard to find in high grade. Plus they are still Silver Age books published not too long ago from their original printings.
Frame it now! I’m stoked you had a great experience in our town. You got a great slice of experiences. In my 20’s while working at Dark Horse I lived a mere few blocks from the Hotcake House… oh so many drunken nights with friends spent there!
Wow… I think you are just the older version of me if I never stopped collecting everything. I’ve always been a collector of something and I’ve always DREAMED of having something as awesome as this. Fantastic work to you and your lovely camerawoman and amazing collections!!!
Very awesome show and pickups! Those free sketches were amazing and loved the X-men Lego minifigures! Glad you and your entire family had a great time.
Such a great video Mike! I’ve wanted to do the trade up challenge idea for a while as well. Awesome stories with Charlie Cox and Walt Simonson, and very well said at the end. You’re a huge part of the community and have brought so many people together. Here’s to another year or two to LMC!
Last time you were riding shotgun a spit take took place. 😂 I was waiting but glad bigby didnt for your sake! I also love that swamp thing cover. Issue 5 is my close second. The oranges red and yellow is so nice. I just finished up a little swamp thing run. I have 1-14 of the original series so far. Thanks for taking us on your portland tour!
For those who like history. Alex Schomburg was from Puerto Rico. He was an orphan who emigrated to NY when he was 11 years old. Also he is related to Arturo "Arthur" Schomburg also from Puerto Rico. He's a famous historian known as the Father of Black History. Founder of the Schmburg institute of NY, where people like Spike Lee, Lawrence Fishburn and more have studied.
Funny how these Flea Markets sellers already have the price stickers and captions on why its priced that way on the comics. That's not what I pictured Flea Markets or Swap meets to be . They already googled the prices ahead of time.
