Collectibles from the Dollar Store? Plus a Giveaway!
Is there anything really worth the price at a dollar store? I took the opportunity to browse for something actually useful to me, and wasn't disappointed. If you aren't in the USA, you probably know of a similar sort of establishment in your region: Everything in the entire store has a price in a fixed unit of your local currency, and most items are either cheap junk or overpriced goods that could be bought elsewhere in bulk for less per unit.
While pondering whether knockoff pens or mystery brand junk food was worth the risk, I noticed some cellophane packages containing comic books and an advertised bonus of collectible cards. I am not a comic book collector, and my card collecting is limited to Magic: The Gathering of late, but I bought two that looked like they had potential. Unfortunately, I tossed the packaging before realizing this was an ideal silly Steemit post, but I do have a picture of the contents.
So, was it worth it? I have to give this an emphatic MAYBE.
The Dungeons and Dragons comic book does include a pre-generated character sheet and an interesting scenario I can adapt as a story hook for a campaign I am working on, so that counts as a win in my books. And I am a fan of Turok: The Dinosaur Hunter on the old Nintendo 64, so that's good too. They aren't in pristine mint condition, and I doubt very much any collector would want them, but since I am not a collector, I don't care. Maybe I'll send the Turok comic to Linkara. I'm sure he could use it.
The trading cards were as amusing as I had hoped. Each had two Elvis Presley movie cards and a pack of X-Files Season 2 cards. I doubt either of these has any real value whatsoever, but they amused me, so that counts for something.
Giveaway:
If this post reaches $20 in payout, and at least 5 Steemians comment, I will send the four Elvis cards to a random commenter below. You know you want them!
EDIT This giveaway will run the full 30 days to the second payout if and only if the conditions are not met by the first payout window.
Hey, I think I have that issue of Turok! But yeah, your're right. If it's not in near mint condition it's probably pretty worthless. The X-Files cards look like the best thing to me but then I'm a fan :)
I think maybe everyone has that issue of Turok, thus it being relegated to the dollar store! Seriously though, it's a great comic. The artist, Rags Morales is incredible, I've followed his work for years. (Oops, edited* Rags started a few months later. This was by Bart Sears. If you ever read Wizard Magazine you probably saw some of his drawing tutorials back in the day!) This issue, Turok #1 occurred at the very end of the huge speculative boom in comics in the 90's. Comic retailers bought hundreds or thousands of copies of it, ready to cash in on the next hot comic, and the bubble burst, leaving many to wallpaper their homes in Turok!
I didn't really get into comics until the death of superman. I was never really into superman that much but I did follow that storyline. I probably spent $20-$40 a week on comics for 3 or 4 years. Nowadays I just pick up a few once a year when I go to Megacon. But yeah, I have a number of Valiant issues including Turok. I was also into Image and Marvel (Mostly X-Men related) and the occasional Dark Horse issue. Still have my collection. If I'm lucky it probably averages out to being worth cover price.
And I also bought most issues of Wizard and that knockoff, Hero.
"I think maybe everyone has that issue of Turok, thus it being relegated to the dollar store!"
That's why I didn't offer to send one of these comic books. I assumed they would be considered clutter.
Maybe if you win the drawing I can send you one of those instead.
We opened a swap meet shop selling our comics and collectibles in Las Vegas a couple years ago. There was a huge dollar store across the street and my cunning sister realized there was tons of stuff in the dollar store we could buy and resell. We made more from that stuff than the "real" collectibles. Nice post!
Ooh, careful there, I have an aunt back in Tennessee that has an Elvis room in her house. Those images have value in some circles, of that I am sure! Great post!
If you win, I can send them to her address.
I know Dollar Tree used to have these little comic book packs in their book section sometimes, but curious what specific dollar store did you go to?
It was a Dollar Tree location.