Hot take: Spending $45 on silver age Batman issues at a con was either genius or idiotic

I dropped $45 on a stack of mid-grade silver age Batman issues at a local con last month and they either saved my collection's value or completely burned me since half of them had hidden spine ticks I missed in the dim lighting - has anyone else gambled on a bulk deal like that and regretted or celebrated it?

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briancarter13d ago

Bought a "mystery box" of 90s comics once. Total gamble.

adamgreen13d ago

$60 is what I paid for a mystery box off eBay a few years ago and I told myself it was probably a scam. I used to think those boxes were just a way for sellers to dump worthless inventory on people. But then I got one with a pretty clean copy of New Mutants #98 in it, @briancarter, which has Deadpool's first full appearance. That alone made the whole thing worth it for me and actually changed my mind about the whole concept. Now I still think most mystery boxes are garbage but I can't completely hate them after that one lucky pull.

emma_clark12d ago

Used to roll my eyes so hard at mystery boxes, thought they were the biggest scam going. Then my buddy got one from some random seller and pulled a first print of Spawn #1 in decent shape, which is a pretty solid book. That find actually made me rethink my whole stance, even though I still think most of them are just overpriced trash. Now I'm kinda tempted to try one myself, even knowing the odds are stacked against me lol.