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Post by Duragizer on Feb 9, 2018 5:56:05 GMT -5
33 in total. The ones thick enough to have spines I have on a book shelf; the remainder I keep inside a shoe box.
Pretty pitiful, I know.
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Post by String on Feb 10, 2018 12:34:22 GMT -5
No real idea other than plenty of 'em.
The last time I made a list, I had around 387 and that was back in '85.
Right now, I have 3 full long boxes and 8 short boxes stuffed to the top. But a good chunk is still spread out in various sized boxes and containers. Heck, I still have my 6 flat stacks stored in my cupboard bookcase in my old room back home.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 11, 2018 13:03:26 GMT -5
I catalogue all my floppies and such in comicbookdbIt says I have 18788 comics in my collection (including all 2000 ADs, Warren magazines, and other comic mags) It doesn't take in account any of my euro books and mangas, which is far from as plenty but still in the healthy lower four figures. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 11, 2018 23:29:49 GMT -5
Not in the UK they're not. Over here they're just called comics or sometimes comic books. "Funny books" is another term that I hadn't ever encountered prior to joining this community, way back when (and it was probably you I first heard using it  ). I have a feeling that the comic strip supplements that came with some newspapers were known as "the funnies" by bygone generations, but the term funny books is definitely not one I've come across in the UK. I really like "floppies" - heck, it's one of the few comic terms I don't have a huge problem with. I generally refer to hardbound comics as "comics" - Graphic Novel sounds pretentious to me and the "novel" part is often inaccurate. So, when I need to differentiate, "floppies" is the term that communicates non-square bound non-magazine size comics most effectively. It ALSO gets across the "we're not trying to be art" commercial nature of (most) of 'em, as contrasted against a 25 dollar Drawn and Quarterly hardcover. I don't like the term 'floppies' for a few reasons... one, it's clearly meant to be both derogatory, and to conjure up an image of being obsolete. It also just begs for juvenile humor or all kinds. Personally, I generally refer to single issues as 'comics' or 'regular comics' and collecitons with a spine as 'trades' or 'trade paperbacks', perhaps even 'collections'. I agree 'Graphic Novel' is a bit hipster and pretentious, so I generally only refer to things that are actual OGNs as such. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2018 0:18:44 GMT -5
Well the use of the term floppies to refer to them was in usage as early as 2003 (when floppy disks were still a viable thing) and it's still better than what Steven Grant lobbied for them to be called (i.e. pamfs short for pamphlets*). Of course graphic novel has been around since at least the 70s when Eisner started using it (and before that too, but Eisner was the one who popularized the term) and is older then some of the folks here (not many, but some) and isn't something hipster if they are hanging on to a (near) obsolete format (like vinyl) rather than the more popular format int he current mass market, so wouldn't floppies themselves be more hipster than graphic novel as a term/format? -M * here's a column from 2003 highlighting floppies of the years (and putting forward Grant's idea of the term pamf...) |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 12, 2018 0:37:30 GMT -5
I logged my Marvel Universe stuff on comics.org recently and the count came to 14034. That's only normal sized floppies. Didn't get to prestige format or graphic novels yet.
That fills a little over 60 long boxes, so about 233 comics per long box. I have about another 40 long boxes with the DC/independent/licensed Marvel stuff.
Then about 10 long boxes and 23 short boxes of stuff I'm intending to sell one day.
So I'd estimate 23,300 of stuff I intend to keep and another 5000 comics to sell.
Then I have about 12 boxes and 7 book cases filled with graphic novels of various forms.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Feb 12, 2018 3:27:30 GMT -5
I logged my Marvel Universe stuff on comics.org recently and the count came to 14034. That's only normal sized floppies. Didn't get to prestige format or graphic novels yet. That fills a little over 60 long boxes, so about 233 comics per long box. I have about another 40 long boxes with the DC/independent/licensed Marvel stuff. Then about 10 long boxes and 23 short boxes of stuff I'm intending to sell one day. So I'd estimate 23,300 of stuff I intend to keep and another 5000 comics to sell. Then I have about 12 boxes and 7 book cases filled with graphic novels of various forms. Wow. I'd so love to have a look at those indie boxes and last 12 /7 ones No more boxs on my side soon : I'm building shelves for all my books as Ive managed to build an external extension to the house last summer, and there's a couple of virgin walls long enough to house most of the collection. As I don't bag my books, they take much less space too, I guess. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Feb 12, 2018 15:09:30 GMT -5
Well the use of the term floppies to refer to them was in usage as early as 2003 (when floppy disks were still a viable thing) and it's still better than what Steven Grant lobbied for them to be called (i.e. pamfs short for pamphlets*). Well, a booklet is a small book, so logically a pamphlet would be a small pamph. Not sure why he wanted to change the spelling. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 12, 2018 20:49:18 GMT -5
 I'd say less than 50 are TPB. The rest are all single issues. I also dislike the term floppies for comics. Floppies are what I played Oregon Trail on. |
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 13, 2018 2:33:58 GMT -5
I logged my Marvel Universe stuff on comics.org recently and the count came to 14034. That's only normal sized floppies. Didn't get to prestige format or graphic novels yet. That fills a little over 60 long boxes, so about 233 comics per long box. I have about another 40 long boxes with the DC/independent/licensed Marvel stuff. Then about 10 long boxes and 23 short boxes of stuff I'm intending to sell one day. So I'd estimate 23,300 of stuff I intend to keep and another 5000 comics to sell. Then I have about 12 boxes and 7 book cases filled with graphic novels of various forms. Wow. I'd so love to have a look at those indie boxes and last 12 /7 ones :) No more boxs on my side soon : I'm building shelves for all my books as Ive managed to build an external extension to the house last summer, and there's a couple of virgin walls long enough to house most of the collection. As I don't bag my books, they take much less space too, I guess. Look me up next time you're in Hawaii. |
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). I have a feeling that the comic strip supplements that came with some newspapers were known as "the funnies" by bygone generations, but the term funny books is definitely not one I've come across in the UK.
