Got a chance to hit the flea market this morning. I don't generally like going on Sundays (Saturdays being my preference) because it's a madhouse, and rarely are vendors willing to negotiate on prices when they figure there are hundreds of other schmucks just waiting to pay full price after you're done trying to negotiate a better deal.
But I was wifeless and kidless today, which makes the milling circus sideshow easier to navigate, so I decided to head on out this morning and see what I could find...
Probably the coolest and most surprising find was this Popeye water gun from the seventies/eighties. I've seen similar examples that portray Batman, with their unfortunately placed triggers and plugs, and couldn't pass this one up for the low price of a dollar! I actually talked this one down from two dollars, so maybe people are willing to haggle on Sundays after all. I'll probably trade or sell this one off - I LOVE Popeye but other than my
action figure collection, I don't really collect Popeye memorabilia (partly because so much of it is just...odd...like this squirt gun.)
I actually found this Red Baron Fokker DR 1 painting at the Goodwill on Saturday, so it's not a flea market find, but for $4.25, I had to have it. It is now hanging proudly in our kitchen, making it appear an 80 year old man lives here.
These books set me back a quarter each. Frank Miller's Ronin and a Spring 1990 issue of Weird Tales. Each is a little roughed up, but they should be good reads regardless. I also found a couple collected Simpsons comics for my Step-son's birthday, but those are already wrapped up!
Last but least, I got these Spongebob and Patrick Lego minifigures in a bag with a few plastic dinosaurs for 75 cents. Hear me now and believe me later: I HATE Spongebob and Patrick. I hate the show, I hate these inane little turds, I hate their idiotic shrill squeeling. HATE HATE HATE!
But I like Lego minifigures and for 75 cents, I figured I could at least trade them off or sell them...or torture them...
Ahhh, that feels better!
Well, that's it for my Sunday finds. Not too shabby!
