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Basically, you go to a participating shop and get a bag of free samplers and buy anything else that looks interesting, all while enjoying whatever other promotions are going on. Rochesters free comic book day runs from 10 am until 4 pm on saturday, may 2 in the heart of downtown. Even archie has something new to say glen weldon runs down all 50 of the books on offer for free comic book day. The premier online comics price guide free comic book values. We have values for any marvel, dc, image, idw, darkhorse, or dell comic book that is in your collection. But how much are the comics where they first appeared worth on the open market. National comic book day soars into a community near you this september 25.
As part of the shops free comic book day celebration, theyve raised money with a drawing for valuable and rare comic books, some of which came from demarcos personal collection. They are strongly collected by comic fans around the world. With all thats going on in the world, and the recommendation that people should avoid groups of more than 50 for the next eight weeks which means through early may to avoid infection, the question arose. In order to find out more about the comics that you own, a superb reference is the overstreet comic book price guide by robert m. Fantastic comics is only a short bart ride away, but i.
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