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Stopped by Legends in florence, SC today and only had a few bucks to spend. So, grabbed a nightwing and aquaman and two Titans, all new.

However, a quick perusal through the back issue bins came up with Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #'s 253, and a whitman that was # 254. It was the first appearance of the League of Super-Assassins and Blok. Never had those before. As well, found a #308 with Prophecy of DOOM!. Had it but it gave up the ghost years ago.

Good day at Legends.

I've been on the road for so long I've missed a lot of back issues to others getting in there before me. Love that I can find the old issues again.

I was looking to buy a board game a couple of months ago. I looked online without any luck, and then checked out nearby stores. It turns out that one shop I went into also sells some comics. While those were even more marked up than other marked up stores have, they did have a number of long boxes at the back. Quite a few of those contained nothing but a treasure trove of '80s comics. They were all heavily discounted too. Now, I can't say for sure if I squealed or if such squealing upset the other patrons. I do know that an hour later I came out of my comics trance and made my way to checkout. I even picked up another run of Crisis, in a lot better shape than my originals are.

The last time I had a comics rummage was years ago in a charity shop, and it was the same then. Sheer happiness, even if it was only for five minutes. Everything just vanishes away and it's me and the comics. When I was a kid, my dad would take me round lots of comic and rummage shops where I was indulged. We would make a day of it. Or rather my dad would make a day of letting his kid have fun and lots of reading. It's something I appreciate more, the older I get. It was regular enough that some of the architecture of these old buildings, shops and proprietors occasionally surfaces in dreams.

Better yet, some of the boxes in this latest shop had newer comics including lots of Threeboot issues and the pre v6 Adventure/Action/Super-whatever comics containing the Legion. I didn't have a lot of these issues, and a few I only had in TPB.

I did notice, in passing, that there were lots of gaps in the Legion issues the shop had. A little odd, but I just assumed I wasn't the first to get there. When I got home I found that the bags containing Legion comics actually held two issues! So I got even more Legion goodness at an even bigger discount.

It just doesn't get better than that. Well, I did manage to pick up the board game in a small shop that had it prominently displayed within a very small selection. Just as if it was waiting for me.

Dang, Thoth. That sounds like a dream I used to have. It was after the spinner racks were gone from stores and we only have the LCS's now. I dreamt, I kid you not, that there was this store halfway between where I live and the LCS that was like a salvage shop and they had boxes and boxes of back issues.

When I woke from that dream, I was very unhappy.

Glad your dream turned out to be reality.

I love having comic stores/ boxes appear in dreams. We didn't have spinner racks where I grew up. Far too fancy. All the books and comics were just on shelves. The shop where I got my first Justice League makes a regular appearance in dreams. I got the issue on a weekend, but I'd also go there on the way to school a lot too. So it's stuck firmly into what laughingly passes as my memory. Even if the fixtures and fittings change around in my sleeping head.

This was the same place my dad would get me lots of black and white reprint comics. They just had a colour cover, nothing on the inside covers, and b&w interiors. Back then comics were relatively cheap, so I'd get treated to lots of these. Form what I've found out they were all '50s reprints from people like Atlas/Seaboard. They were all called Strange this or Uncanny that. Just lots of anthology stories with weird aliens and punchy plots.

Oops, I've turned this into the What I found "yesterday" at my LCS thread.

Hey, that's cool too.

Found several, but put most in my pull. Today I brought home Legion #309, a continuation of the Omen and Prophet storyline.

Since I'm not spending as much on the new stuff, I've got a little more for the older ones I never had.

Vaguely connected... Green Lantern 188 and 189. Only connected due to there being a GL in the Legion.

Was that still Wein/ Gibbons or had that run ended?

It had ended and Staton was doing the art again.

It was the change when John took over because Hal gave up the ring for Carol.

Krappin' Kris Kringle! I hit the motherlode at my LCS today. Some I've had before and lost to wear and tear, some I never had.

Superboy and the Legion #'s: 229, 231, 232, 235, 236, 243, 250, 258, and 280.

But the better part is, I put about 30 more in my pull and will be getting them over the next few weeks.

GAAAAAHHHHHHHDDDDDDDDDDD I LOVE MY LCS!

Waaaahooooooo! Even more from the LCS. Secrets of the Legion, the entire mini.

Superboy and the Legion: 252, 269, 270, 271, 279 (had before, but it was ruined), 285, 290 (never had before).

Love my lcs.

Big round of applause for your LCS, Rick. What a great haul of issues! Even better if you've not had some of them before. Comics Gold.

Don't forget those reread threads for any comments!

DC Comics Presents #13 with the Legion. They actually convince Supes to give up HIS BEST FRIENDS KID!

Karate Kid #12, guest starring Superboy and the Legion as well.

I won't, Thoth, but I don't have a lot of spare time lately, that's why most of my posts are quick hits and not the old drawn out stuff.

Since the former owner passed, Legends is trying to continue what he built. They actually just bought out a store in Columbia, SC and are gonna be bringing in the stuff from that store, so, fingers crossed that I can fill out my Legion, Flash, Gl and JL/JSA silver age stuff.

I can't even remember the last time I saw a Silver Age Flash comic. My last binge was on '80s stuff around Crisis, which was just a little easier. I got the Supergirl run for a song. By which I mean if I stopped singing they would give them to me.

Great haul at Legends, today. They bought out another store and I got to go though some of the stuff.

I found Superboy 172, Adventure 379 and 380, Superboy and the Legion 215, Gl/GA number 99, DOOM PATROL 122, 123, and 124, and Justice League 128, 132, and 170. All silver age stuff.

Not to mention a crap ton of old Superman Family comics for a dollar.

I saw a lot of original Teen Titans, old dc Horror comics, lots of old batman and others. And the only reason I didn't get them was of course, funds. But, I'm planning on grabbing as many as I can in the next few months.

I do, however, see that DC is doing a new Hawkman book, which sounds great until I heard Hitch is doing art. I don't remember him ever staying on a book very long, I might be wrong, but it being Hawkman I'm gonna be getting it.

Nothing to report this week. Pretty much spent my monthly allowance last week. Totally worth it though. I am starting to get some duplicates, though. If I get a chance I'll make a list and be happy to share them with anyone that might be missing what I have.

Part of my recent '80s haul (still not read them all) was '80s Hawkman issues. After the Shadow War. I had bought the first issue, and picked up couple of the early ones for a JLD thing in Bits (I think Zatanna guest starred). But this was me filling out a few of the gaps. Considering that this was the book that took the Hawks out of Crisis and the JLA, it really didn't live up to interview I read before its launch.

Well, I didn't exactly find these at my LCS, but my LCS' owner had a table at the Ithacon today, where I picked up these bargains:

WEREWOLF BY NIGHT #17 (1974)
NOVA #8 (1977)
SUPERBOY AND THE LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #231 (1977)
NEW TEEN TITANS #19 (1982)
ALL-STAR SQUADRON #35 (1984)
ALPHA FLIGHT #16 (1984)
SECRET ORIGINS #41 (1989)
JOKER'S ASYLUM II: THE RIDDLER #1 (2010)

Excellent haul there, Mal. All-Star, Titans and Supey and the Legion. Sounds like a blast to me.

Yeah, Byrne was still on Alpha Flight, Perez on Titans and Sherman on SLoSH!

This isn't Legion-related but I just bought a handful of back-issues from a comic book store in Dallas and one of them was one of those 'Holy Grail's of comics that I've been looking for (at a reasonable price) FOR.EVER:

Detective Comics #566.

https://www.comics.org/issue/891740/cover/4/

I'm not sure why this random issue has been so rare and difficult for me to find (other than it perhaps being a sort of early, proto-Who's Who solely focused on Bat-villains) but having that little gap in my collection was like a needle to the brain of my OCD side.

With it purchased I can now proudly say that I have a complete run of Detective Comics from #475 to #722, an unbroken run of 249 comics from 1978 to 1998 (and if I can find just 10 more issues, I'll have an unbroken run from #447 to #722, consisting of 277 comics over 23 years).

Very cool, Blacula. I've been looking for "The Secret of the Waiting Graves" for years. First batman I ever bought and i read it so much it felt apart.

^ I haven't read that issue but I love that period of Batman, and DC in general. A shame it's so expensive and uncollected though.