Today was Sunday Funday (we usually both have Sundays off, so our day trips are usually on Sundays, hence the Sunday Funday label we use for it). My wife started her vacation yesterday, and one of my dealer acquaintances (Dan of Jim & Dan's who run the quarterly con I frequently attend) was having a sale at his shop this weekend, a shop on the other side of Dayton almost to the Indiana line, which I hadn't been to before, but I had been promising him I'd make it out there at some point. It was a gorgeous day, so I loaded up some of the books I am culling to see about working a trade, and we headed out for the hour plus drive.
We made a couple other stops, including the Half Price Books and Toys R Us, and then headed out to the shop which opened at 1. We got there a little before 1, but just down the street from the shop was a barbecue restaurant (Buckeye Jake's) inside a converted 18th century house, so we stopped there for lunch and I tired their brisket, which was awesome, and Amy had their Sunday chicken special and their homemade peanut butter pie. So with a full belly we headed over to the shop. Worked out a trade for some store credit and picked up a bunch of goodies. On the way out, Dan recommended a little used bookstore that also deals in some comics in the next town over, so we hit that as well before coming home. Came back with a decent haul of stuff too...
Amy saw a battered Black Widow action figure she liked and it was cheap so we snagged it, and the first thing I pulled out of the mag box was the 80;s Black Widow OGN withthe same costume, which she decided she wanted to read, so that was her first pick up...
she also spotted the metal Doctor Strange figure and so that was part of the haul too...
First thing I spotted when I walked in was this on the wall...
The Kirby-Lee Surfer OGN I had been looking for for a while, and it was going home with me.
I was asking Dan if he ever got a copy of Wrightson's Frankenstein, if he would let me know, he said sure if he gets two, as he is wanting one for himself too, but he asked me if I had a copy of Creepshow, which I didn't and now I do...along with a copy of the Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta Starstruk OGN published under the Epic imprint.
The main reason I wanted to get to his shop was he said he had a good selection of Savage Sword issues, and he did, but only had 1 of the 4 I needed, but he did have a copy of the Moench/Gulacy Conan OGN The Skull of Set...
rooting around the magazine bins also turned up that Black Widow OGN and the Starstruck, plus these two lovelies...
now down to 3 or 4 issues of Epic Illustrated to complete the run.
I had a few dollars in credit left, so I rooted through the dollar bins and came away with these 3 books...
the one issue of Atlas' Cougar I needed, the Atari Force Special and the Gold Key adaptation of the Black Hole. Not pictured, I also picked up the last issue of Future Quest (#12) that I had missed while recovering from surgery.
Toys R' Us was a bust (no blue Kimono Usagi figure) but between Half Price Books and Readers Delight (the little shop Dan sent me too), I picked up the following...
Books 3 and 4 of the Dune Cycle and a Six Million Dollar Man novel (which was marked $1 but the store discounts used books 15% so only cost me 85 cents), and these two trades...
Joe Kubert's Dong Xoia, Vietnam 1965 and the first volume of Kieron Gillen's Wicked & Divine.
So, all in all, Sunday Funday was a success, and a good time was had by all.
-M
We made a couple other stops, including the Half Price Books and Toys R Us, and then headed out to the shop which opened at 1. We got there a little before 1, but just down the street from the shop was a barbecue restaurant (Buckeye Jake's) inside a converted 18th century house, so we stopped there for lunch and I tired their brisket, which was awesome, and Amy had their Sunday chicken special and their homemade peanut butter pie. So with a full belly we headed over to the shop. Worked out a trade for some store credit and picked up a bunch of goodies. On the way out, Dan recommended a little used bookstore that also deals in some comics in the next town over, so we hit that as well before coming home. Came back with a decent haul of stuff too...
Amy saw a battered Black Widow action figure she liked and it was cheap so we snagged it, and the first thing I pulled out of the mag box was the 80;s Black Widow OGN withthe same costume, which she decided she wanted to read, so that was her first pick up...
she also spotted the metal Doctor Strange figure and so that was part of the haul too...
First thing I spotted when I walked in was this on the wall...
The Kirby-Lee Surfer OGN I had been looking for for a while, and it was going home with me.
I was asking Dan if he ever got a copy of Wrightson's Frankenstein, if he would let me know, he said sure if he gets two, as he is wanting one for himself too, but he asked me if I had a copy of Creepshow, which I didn't and now I do...along with a copy of the Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta Starstruk OGN published under the Epic imprint.
The main reason I wanted to get to his shop was he said he had a good selection of Savage Sword issues, and he did, but only had 1 of the 4 I needed, but he did have a copy of the Moench/Gulacy Conan OGN The Skull of Set...
rooting around the magazine bins also turned up that Black Widow OGN and the Starstruck, plus these two lovelies...
now down to 3 or 4 issues of Epic Illustrated to complete the run.
I had a few dollars in credit left, so I rooted through the dollar bins and came away with these 3 books...
the one issue of Atlas' Cougar I needed, the Atari Force Special and the Gold Key adaptation of the Black Hole. Not pictured, I also picked up the last issue of Future Quest (#12) that I had missed while recovering from surgery.
Toys R' Us was a bust (no blue Kimono Usagi figure) but between Half Price Books and Readers Delight (the little shop Dan sent me too), I picked up the following...
Books 3 and 4 of the Dune Cycle and a Six Million Dollar Man novel (which was marked $1 but the store discounts used books 15% so only cost me 85 cents), and these two trades...
Joe Kubert's Dong Xoia, Vietnam 1965 and the first volume of Kieron Gillen's Wicked & Divine.
So, all in all, Sunday Funday was a success, and a good time was had by all.
-M
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