Your Used Bookstore Comics Purchases

So after I stopped by the comic shop today, I went to the local Half Price and browsed. There's a lot of interesting comics overstock that they get there! (I once bought a like-new copy of Palomar there for twenty bucks!) Saw an overstock David Chelsea there for one-fourth the price I paid for it in Toronto (doh!), three copies of some Canadian personal history thing by a guy named David Collier (any good? looked sorta nice, but life in Canada is not really one of my areas of interest, so I passed), a bunch of copies of something called Silly Daddy (Chicago artist + looked kinda interesting (+ blurb from Kolchalka!) so I picked one up for five bucks), a whole huge set of Hideashi Hino horror comix (flipped thru a couple, but I passed on them. I'm not big on investing in buying multi-multi-volume sets of books, however cheaply priced-- it's one of the things that kept me away from getting into Love and Rockets for a long time, even though I really enjoyed "BEM" and Music for Mechanix-- twenty bucks times twenty volumes to catch up with equals OUCH! It's a shame comics are only recently being seriously acquired by public libraries. I can go and read the complete Joyce (or pick your corny literary fux0r of choice) for free, but I have to invest hundreds of dollars to get the equivalent amount of story in GNs, with no guarantee on the worthiness of said oeuvre being infinity (or 400, whatever) times more than the stuff I get from the PL. WTF? OK, this lesterbangsian infinite digressions stuff is getting carried away (sorry, guys)...), and a like-new copy of Our Cancer Year, which I passed on even though I like Frank Stack and Pekar together OK-- on flip-thru it didn't seem like something of lasting value (yes, despite the weighty subject matter) because there's something too empty, too much mere reportage, about the way Pekar tells his stories (however much I've enjoyed them in the past). And, um, that's about it really. Occasionally, I find something really good there by accident, like the Michael Dougan I Can't Tell You Anything book. Then there's all the moth-eaten copies of "Warlock and the Infinity Watch", etc., to contend with as the flipside to used book comics shopping. Anyone else? Horror stories? Finds? Stories of the halcyon days of your youth, when all your back issues came from a cardboard box of 25 cent comics in the back of your local used book store? (Found a nice '60s Buscema Avengers that way once myself, mixed in with all the unwanted tatty issues of second-tier '70s DC things: romance and horror comics, reprint titles, Prez, etc.-- the then-equivalents of the speculator-peak-era crap that stinks up the same boxes today)