Following my purchases from Comic City, I stumbled across Wes Hagen's booth. We'd talked earlier in the show, he carries his comics to many conventions, and it was a treat to visit a table packed with "$3 each!" boxes. This is precisely the sort of thing I look for at shows: no checking labels and computing discounts, just a basic price and rummage through the boxes looking for weird stuff. (The price that seems to work is $3; in that range, among the Silver Age and later items, I find occasional oddball earlier items.)

Air War Stories #7 (May 66, Dell)
Black Fury #51 (Feb 65, Charlton)
Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #26 (Gold Key, Jun 69)
Bugs Bunny #73 (Jun-Jul 60, Dell)
Combat Kelly #8 (Aug 73, Marvel)
Ensign O'Toole #1 (Aug-Oct 63, Dell)
The Fightin' 5 Vol 2 #40 (Nov 66, Charlton)
Ghost Stories #11 (Jul-Sep 65, Dell)
Grimm's Ghost Stories #11 (Aug 73, Gold Key)
The Horizontal Lieutenant 01-348-210 (1962, Dell)
Jimmy Olsen (DC) #112 (Jul 68); #143 (Nov 71)
Lassie (Dell) #4 (Jul-Sep 51); #10 (Jan-Mar 53); #13 (Oct-Dec 53); #14 (Jan-Feb 54); #15 (Mar-Apr 54); #16 (May-Jun 54); #17 (Jul-Aug 54); #20 (Jan-Feb 55); #22 (May-Jun 55); #24 (Sep-Oct 55); #27 (Mar-Apr 56); #32 (Jan-Feb 57); #39 (Mar-Apr 58); #41 (Jul-Aug 58); #44 (Jan-Mar 59); #47 (Oct-Dec 59)
Lidsville #2 (Gold Key, 1972)
Looney Tunes #193 (Dell, Nov 57)
McKeever and the Colonel #3 (Aug-Oct 63, Dell)
M.A.R.S. Patrol Total War (Gold Key) #4 (1967; #5 (May 68)
The New Krofft Supershow #3 (Jun 78, Gold Key)
Porky Pig #22 (Feb 69, Gold Key)
Ripley's Believe It or Not! (Gold Key) #8 (Feb 68); #10 (Aug 68)
Scamp #9 (Nov 72, Gold Key)
Space Adventures #13 (Mar 79, Charlton)
Space: 1999 #1 (Nov 75, Charlton)
Strange Suspense Stories #70 (May 64)
Sugar and Spike #76 (Apr-May 68)
Tomahawk #96 (Jan-Feb 65, DC)
Tom and Jerry Comics (Dell) #87 (Oct 51); #88 (Nov 51); #95 (Jun 52); #100 (Nov 52); #116 (Mar 54); #135 (Oct 55)
Total War #1 (Gold Key, 1965)
Treasure Chest Vol 20 #16 (Apr 8 65, George Pflaum)
Underdog #19 (Jun 78, Gold Key)
Unearthly Spectaculars #3 (Mar 67, Harvey)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea #10 (Nov 67, Gold Key)
Walt Disney's Comics and Stories (Dell) #110 (Vol 10 #2, Nov 49); #112 (Vol 10 #4, Jan 50); #117 (Vol 10 #9, Jun 50); #152 (Vol 13 #8, May 53)
The World around Us #34 (Jun 61, Classics)

Just to elaborate slightly: I didn't bother to check my own list for duplicates; I think I probably have the M.A.R.S. Patrol issues, for example. But I was in a hurry and just pulled what looked interesting -- and I just handed Brent the Total War, since he didn't have a copy, I know I do, and the Wally Wood art is great. In some cases (Combat Kelly, Jimmy Olsen), I know we had the issues at one point, but I think we sold them to make room for other items. So grab it and go at $3 each.

And I bought some for other purposes. I'm mentor to a grade-schooler with Asperger's Syndrome (Get me started on the topic of Asperger's some time, but what the heck? What it means is that a bright child with a comics obsession gets support in the field.) who loves Tom and Jerry. So I grabbed the Tom and Jerry issues as gifts. And I've got three grandchildren, so why not Bugs Bunny? The Walt Disney's Comics and Stories are beat-up, but great Barks for $3 each? Hey, grandkids!

Oddball fun. What did you find at the summer's shows?