I’m conflicted about the “kid stuff” since Wizard itself as a magazine seems to love the big breasts and bondage in a lot of mainstream comics so they’re hypocrites to try to suppress this stuff. Why are the ships bad but you can walk by a 10 foot tall Witchblade poster that’s 2″ from full frontal and nobody bats an eye? Also, they try to tell Artist Alley exhibitors not to sell adult material but let the Suicide Girls set up and let dealers sell porn videos- one dealer near the cafeteria even had obviously bootleg porn DVDs next to obviously bootleg cartoon DVDs.

But there was a ton of Silver Age and newer comics for $2, a buck, 50 cents, or even a quarter. I ended up buying 5-6 times more comics in two days at WW Chicago than I’ve purchased elsewhere in the past year — almost all of which I paid a buck each for, or less.

And several dealers had the trades and hardcovers heavily discounted. Twenty to fourty percent off was the most common discount, but on Sunday afternoon, I picked up the hardcover version of “The Comics: Since 1945″ — a book I’ve been eying for awhile that originally retailed for $49.95 — for 80 percent off ($10).