Ah, yard sale season.  The smell of bahgins in the air.  Every weekend's a new chance to find more unnecessary crap to clutter up your home with.  I'm helpless to resist the lure of 25 cent Guinness glasses, dogeared copies of Stephen King books, board games with missing pieces and DVDs on their last stop before the landfill.  This year though it's been records I've been on the look for.  Last year I got a working turntable back into my life and I've been slowly re-building my record collection since then.  But the other day I caught a telephone pole sign for a yard sale right around the block from my house that was going to be including comic books and graphic novels alongside the usual household ephemera.

Now more comic books is really the last thing I should be spending money on.  I'm even trying to sell some as I'm running out of room and earlier this year I proudly whittled down my weekly pull-list to just the essential.  But like I said, I'm defenseless when it comes to the siren call of the yard sale.

So I hiked up the block expecting to find maybe a couple of bruised boxes of recent Wolverines but instead I found long boxes full of choice superhero titles from the past30 years.

As you can see, there was some non-superhero titles as well.  I handed over the money I had on me and walked away with a nice size stack of books ranging from Fantastic 4's and Spider-Man's from the 70s and 80s, a Drawn & Quarterly collection and The He Said/She Said Comics Presents The Woody Allen/Mia Farrow Story.  My plan is to dig into these books over the next week and post word on what I ended up with here.  My lack of knowledge regarding the history of titles like X-Factor and even Fantastic 4 is pretty vast, so I'm curious to see what a person can gather from reading some random issues from 20 to 30 years ago.  I'll probably report back separately on the superhero books and the Scalped, Woody Allen and Drawn & Quarterly.  I'm fairly familiar with the legend of Bone and might take finding these few issues as a prompting to finally purchase the whole collection.  Anyway, check back here for this and other exciting adventures in comic book reading.