Please buy the comics and take them home before reading them (you will not get stepped on)!
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Here is the current listing of small one day comic shows in
the midwest, along with a few bigger ones. At these one day
events you can find a variety of comics and related collectibles
(such as action figures, non sports cards, videos and other
items you might find in Previews). These are not NASCAR, Beanie
Baby, sports card shows which have one guy who has a box of
over priced Image and Valiant comics from the 1990s. Admission
is either FREE or a couple of dollars, and parking is always
FREE. You can find things you can't find anywhere else.
Since it costs dealers a lot less to set up at these than it
does at the big conventions you can often find some really good
deals. Unlike buying things online you will get to see the comic before you buy it so you know what shape it is in. So you do not have to trust the sellers judgment or pay lots more than the comic is worth to have someone else tell you what condition it is in. Plus when you get a $5 comic for $3 on eBay and have to pay $4 to ship it is it really that good of a deal? When you come to the convention you can buy as much stuff as will fit in your car and not have to pay anything extra to get it back home!
- In September 2007 at the Quad Cities Con a dealer sold a copy
of Sonic the Hedgehog #1 for only a buck!
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Toy collectors were pleased to get some loose Meego action figures
for $1 each at the 2006 Daytona Beach show!
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At the January 2006 convention in Peoria one dealer sold a copy
of the Silver Age Daredevil #4 as well as Silver Age Fantastic
Four #19, 24, 34 & 53 for 40c each (They were not in mint condition)!
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In 2004 a St. Louis dealer sold a NM copy of Transformers #80
(of a 4 issue limited series) for 50c
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At our first Kansas City show way back in 2001 a dealer sold
copies of X-Men #94, Hulk #181 and Amazing Spider-Man #121 for
$2.50 each!
Albeit we can't promise you will find deal like these, but there
are always good deals to be found. If you find an exceptionally
good one let me know and I may list it here! Even the head of one of America's largest comic stores, Mile High Comics' Chuck Rozanski, comes to 1 days shows to find stuff to resell. He talks about it in his monthly column and recommends that fans reading it find one to attend!
Although at any given point all events may not be on the schedule,
I am currently running small cons in the following markets.
Some markets cross state lines so they are being listed twice.
If you are looking for an event in one of these areas and it
is not currently listed check back, at some point it should
be:
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Illinois: Champaign / Urbana, Metro East (St Louis suburbs), Peoria,
Quad Cities, Springfield
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Indiana: Fort Wayne, NW Indiana (Portage), South Bend, Terre
Haute
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Iowa: Council Bluffs / Omaha, Des Moines, Cedar Rapids / Iowa
City, Quad Cities, Waterloo / Cedar Falls
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Kansas: Kansas City
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Michigan: Lansing
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Minnesota: Minneapolis / St. Paul
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Missouri: Kansas City, Springfield, St. Louis
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Nebraska: Omaha
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Ohio: Toledo
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Wisconsin: Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee
In addition to the ones listed above, in the past conventions
have been held in the Chicago metro area (Bolingbrook and Arlington
Heights), Topeka, KS, Decatur, IL, Bloomington / Normal, IL, Lincoln, NE, Columbia, MO. Others cities
may also be added, some such as Memphis, TN I would like to do but have not found an acceptable venue to hold one.