Sunday always brings smaller crowds and better deals than Saturday. The deals were so good in fact that I was so wrapped up scoring some cheap bronze and silver age comics for pennies on the dollar that I forgot to take pictures!
There were plenty of good photo ops too so I hate that I missed out, but as I just mentioned I was on a mission to seek out all of the reduced prices to score some deals. Speaking of deals I walked away with some very impressive Avengers and Captain America books from the late 70's for as cheap as 25 cents. These were torn up, ragged books either. I'm not a grader so I can't say they are in Near Mint condition, but they look fantastic.
On the toy front I continued to see several toys for sale...but most of them weren't moving thanks in part to the high prices. Several vendors had those Walmart exclusive Avengers movie figures that are Marvel Legends scale, but who is seriously going to pay $50 for Hulk or $45 for Hawkeye? One dealer may have gone as low as $30 which is essentially double retail - so that I can see. Anything higher to me is crazy.
As far as 80's toys go again I saw plenty. One dealer where I was browsing had a nice loose (and I think complete) G.I. Joe ARAH Rolling Thunder vehicle. I didn't see a price nor did I ask. I saw two different dealers that had a decent selection of Transformers. I was surprised I didn't see more honestly. One guy was asking $250 for a loose, complete G1 Jetfire. Seriously?! Closer to reality was a MOSC G1 Stranglehold Pretender for $100. I've seen him go for $75+ loose, complete so I thought he would've sold. Another dealer (it may have been ToyNK.com) had a few Masterpiece TFs including the sought-after MP-10 Convoy. $230 was too rich for my blood so I just looked. He also had a few Hasbro Prime First Edition figures of Cliffjumper and Arcee for $30 a piece. And I think I saw a Prime: PRID Vehicon at one random dealer for $25.
I didn't buy any toys this year which really surprised myself - but I did find one little toy related treat before leaving today in one of the many 50 cent boxes. Behold:
I love these old Marvel Star Comics of the 80's toy properties. I have the whole Visionaires series and this makes the 2nd issue of Inhumanoids that I now own. One dealer had just about all the Star Comics Thundercats, but they were way overpriced in my opinion.
Assuming my schedule is free next June I plan on attending the show again. Unless Botcon comes back to NC or somewhere within relative short driving distance the HeroesCon will be my summer convention of choice for the foreseeable future.
A quick shout out to Shelton Drum and his amazing staff for organizing and hosting one of the best, if not THE best comic book conventions in the country. I never cease to be amazed each year and somehow they continue to improve the show year after year.
The Star comics were always great. I loved the Thundercats ones, personally.
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