Took me 3 hours to find a single back issue I needed for my collection

I was trying to complete my run of New Mutants from the 80s and needed issue 87. I remembered I had it packed away somewhere in my parents' basement from when I moved out 10 years ago. So I drove over there thinking I'd grab it in 20 minutes tops. Three hours later I had gone through 12 boxes of comics sorted by publisher and then by year but somehow they got mixed up. I found two copies of issue 86 and three of issue 88 but no 87. Finally I checked a random tote under the stairs and there it was wedged between some old issues of Groo. Has anyone else spent way longer than expected hunting down one specific issue?

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noahgreen1mo ago

That Groo mention got me. I remember digging through dollar bins at a convention once for about two hours trying to find a decent copy of Fantastic Four 262. It was that issue where the Thing fights the Hulk on the moon, and I had a low grade copy already but wanted a nicer one for the wall. I must have flipped through three long boxes before I found one that wasn't beat up or missing the cover. Finally found it in a box marked "Discount Mystery Packs" of all places, and the guy sold it to me for a buck. Spent the whole day hunting but felt pretty good about it.

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paige1661mo ago

Dollar bin hunting is seriously the best feeling when you actually score something good.

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