# Help! I'm suddenly in my first comic book sale... tomorrow **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-books-manga\ **Created:** [March 7, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-im-suddenly-in-my-first-comic-book-sale-tomorrow/1015252 "2025-03-07T16:52:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-im-suddenly-in-my-first-comic-book-sale-tomorrow/1015252/21 "2025-03-09T05:05:40Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Who’s the Doper who has been doing pop-up vinyl record sales, and doing quite well? @Akaj and they’d graduated to Full Store which I visited on opening day back in November. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-im-suddenly-in-my-first-comic-book-sale-tomorrow/1015252/22 "2025-03-10T03:34:20Z")
Whew! It’s over, and… I sold ALL my comics (2000+)! My goal was decluttering, so I priced stuff to sell: $2 (or 10 for $15, or 20 for $20!). A guy from a great store (Kowabunga Comics) asked if he could look while I was setting up Saturday morning, and he bought a couple hundred before the Con even started. Then, Sunday afternoon, I asked him for a quote on everything that was left over. I was ecstatic when he agreed to take it all! (My wife’s last words had been “So even if you sell a bunch, you’re going to come home with dozens of boxes, right?”) HA! In yo’ _face,_ spouse! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-im-suddenly-in-my-first-comic-book-sale-tomorrow/1015252/23 "2025-03-10T03:49:25Z")
It was exhausting. Now, I’d recommend any of the "Quad Con"s that travel through the midwest. Very well run, felt like a nerdy circus: LPs, cards, original art and books, comics, and a cosplay contest. But I had to be an extrovert for two full days. And today, for some reason, was packed with mid-life guys who needed to tell someone about their obsessive collection (of southpaw umpires’ rookie cards, or only comics with locomotives on the covers, or Doctor Doom statuary). That 30-something dad wasn’t a comics fan, but still had a shrine to Victor Von Doom in his living room. His wife just rolled her eyes… ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-im-suddenly-in-my-first-comic-book-sale-tomorrow/1015252/24 "2025-03-10T03:54:07Z")
Congratulations. Great job ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-im-suddenly-in-my-first-comic-book-sale-tomorrow/1015252/25 "2025-03-10T03:56:27Z")
Hey, you wished me good luck, how could it not work out? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-im-suddenly-in-my-first-comic-book-sale-tomorrow/1015252.md?page=1)