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half price books My reason for stopping at Half Price Books this morning after work was meant to be a productive one and not just an excuse to spend money. I wanted to see if I could find a map of Scotland to use on my upcoming trip. From past experience I knew that they had some used maps there, but also knew that the odds of my finding one that I either wanted or would be of any real value to me would be poor. Once I was at the store, my prediction sadly came true. After making a somewhat halfhearted attempt at looking through the basket of maps that they had in the travel section of the store, which were primarily state maps and nothing foreign, I wandered over to the comic book area. Sitting before me were about a dozen boxes of bagged comics arranged in alphabetical order. Fifteen minutes later, I was walking out with a small stack of unexpected treasures. For the longest time, the general price for a comic book at Half Price Books was fifty cents, but sometime last year they raised that figure to a dollar, which is still less than the price of a new book, but at the same time I miss the lower figure. The sorting of said books was also something that appeared a year or so ago. At one time everything was just throw into the box at random. Oh, there might be a run of five or six books of the same title together, but that was the extent of any organization. Some of the gems that I found were early John Byrne era Superman and some Who's Who in the Legion of Super Heroes. Both groups were published twenty years ago, so I was more than happy to add them to my collection. At that time I don't think that I was reading any DC titles on any regular basis. |