My first Vast Accumulation of Stuff garage sales of 2025 will be Friday and Saturday, May 2-3, from 9 am to noon or later at 840 Damon Drive in Medina, Ohio. The sales will be held nigh-weekly through the summer. Most days, if there are fans still shopping at noon, I’ll stay open a bit longer.
I’ve been working on these sales since late last year. With the help of my pal Rob Petersen, who runs my eBay store, I’ve gone through dozens and dozens of boxes looking for stuff to put into these garage sales. I’m determined to reduce the VAOS by more than in any previous years. I need to make room for house renovations I want to make and to give back more of our Tardis-like house to Saintly Wife Barb.
The highlight of the sales are going to be the hardcovers, trade paperbacks and oversized hardcovers and trades. At rough count, I have fifteen boxes of these. Plus dozens of Omnibus editions and oversized books outside those boxes. Plus a spinner rack of novels and other books. If you’ve been following my updates on Facebook, you should have some idea of the amazing items that will be on sale.
You’ll also find several boxes of vintage and more recent comic books, including especially choice comics on my magazine stand. I also have around five boxes of comic priced at a dollar and a table and a half of manga volumes also priced at a buck.
A word about dollar comics. They are not particularly profitable for me. They are a loss-leader. They bring bargain-hunting fans and make those fans happy. After each weekend’s sales, I plan to pull 10-15% of the unsold dollar comics for use in my beloved mystery boxes.
Now a word about the mystery boxes. There won’t be any available for sale this first weekend. They are also loss leaders and take a lot of time to put together. For this opening weekend, I would rather use the space to showcase more of those oversized volumes mentioned above. My mystery boxes will return the second weekend and most weekends thereafter.
Getting back to our first weekend, there will be an entire table dedicated to Godzilla and other beloved kaiju. There will be two bookcases filled with bargain-priced Funko figures. I’m making very deep cuts to my Funko collection, though you’ll have to pry my G.I. Robot figure from my cold dead hands after I slaughter a bunch of Nazis.
The sale will have two exclusive items. We have a gorgeous Tigra posted by the amazing Jay Fife. Originally selling for $30, it’s been reduced to $20 for my garage sales.
We’ll also have copies of that exclusive-to-me edition Marvel’s Greatest Creators: Tony Isabella #1, which reprints the first appearance of Misty Knight in the Iron Fist series. This signed, numbered edition is limited to 1500 copies and is priced to sell at just $10 per comic.
Some other important notes. If you bring Isabella-written items to my garage sales, I will sign them for free. Just understand that I might not be able to sign them immediately if I’m waiting on other customers or if you have a lot of comics to sign.
Weapons are strictly prohibited at my garage sales unless you’re an on duty police officer.
My garage sales are non-political. I won’t be wearing my liberal swag and you will definitely not be wearing your MAGA, Trump or right-wing gear. If you think I’m going to bend on the MAGA hats and such, you’re very wrong. You’ll be asked to leave that stuff in your cars and, if you refuse to do that, you’ll be asked to leave without getting a chance to buy any of the wonderful items at the garage sale.
Finally, a gray area. My preferred name is Jenny Blake Isabella (or Miss Jackson if you’re nasty) and my preferred pronouns are she/he. As I will be presented as Tony, I won’t make a big deal if you misgender me. But it does make me happy when comics fans get it right. I don’t consider this to be political. I consider it to be basic politeness.
I’m looking forward to opening my garage door and seeing all the smiling faces of my customers and friends, old and new. See you soon.
© 2025 Tony Isabella
Wish I could go Jenny,
ReplyDelete