Comic Book Addicts

Today, we went to the Atlanta Comic Convention. It is a fairly small, one-day convention held at the Marriott American Century hotel in Atlanta, GA. It costs $4 to get in the door, however, their website had a one-dollar coupon that we printed out before we arrived. In the door for $6 total, not bad! There were people around the front area giving away some free books, which is always nice. We went to the back corner where someone had about twelve 50 cent longboxes of comics. We started sifting through them and found some really good stuff. I got some Batman and Batman Detectives comics as well as some runs of Thor, Avengers, and Teen Titans. The man running the booth said that he had bought those books off of 6 different collectors. Those were their collections, so there weren’t a lot of duplicates, that was nice, and there were some good runs, with them back to back in the boxes. That makes it easier as well.

My wife saw some Richie Rich and Archie comics in some 50 cent boxes too. They ended up being good deals. She picked up a Dudley Do Right comic that happened to end up being worth $75. It was in great condition. I picked up some Amazing Spider-man (that’s my favorite) for $5 each that ended up being worth quite a bit of money. Sometimes I don’t think they really pay attention to what they put in some of these bins sometimes. You can get some good deals if you have time to sift through the boxes of comics.

A lot of the vendors were buying comics too. I was told that I should bring my duplicates to sell to them. I think I might do that sometime. They’re having a larger 3-day convention February 8-10, 2008 at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel for only $25. That’s a good price for a 3-day convention. Go to www.atlantacomicsexpo.com for more information.