I wrote off that old comic shop guy as a gatekeeper until he saved me $300 at a con

There's this dude at my LCS who always lectures people about golden age stuff. I figured he was just flexing knowledge. But last month at the Chicago Comic Con he stopped me from buying a copy of Detective Comics #359 for $400. He pulled out his phone and showed me it was a 1990s reprint with a missing cover price dot. I trusted him after that. Has anyone else had an old head drop some random fact that bailed them out?

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lucaslane17d agoMost Upvoted

Man that's exactly the kind of shop guy you gotta keep around. I had a similar thing happen at a flea market where some guy in his 70s told me a "mint" copy of Iron Man #1 I was about to drop $200 on was actually a Canadian price variant with a different spine. Never would have caught that myself. Now I always listen when those old timers start rambling cause they usually saved my wallet more than they hurt my pride.

gonzalez.phoenix17d ago

Wow, @lucaslane you had a Canadian variant slip by you too? That's the kind of thing that makes me wonder how many other details we're all just missing.