Comparing old school spinner racks to modern comic book shelves

I used to love digging through those metal spinner racks at my local convenience store back in the 90s, just flipping issue after issue without any order. Then I started buying from a shop that organized everything by series and event, and it felt too clean, like the joy of the hunt was gone. Anyone else think the messier approach actually made finding a random good comic more special?

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nina14724d ago

Man, I had a buddy who spent an hour digging through a spinner rack at a gas station once and found a first printing of something rare that the owner didn't even know he had. He still talks about it like it was a treasure hunt.

patriciacarr24d ago

That whole "treasure hunt" thing your buddy talks about, @nina147, is actually not far off from how a lot of serious collectors think. I gotta say though, that gas station part sounds a bit off to me. Most first printings of anything remotely valuable would've been snatched up by dealers or put online years ago, not sitting in a spinner rack. More likely your friend found a later printing or a reissue that just looked old. Still a cool find, just not quite the gold mine he probably thinks it is.