Pat T
Full Member
Posts: 102 
|
Post by Pat T on Nov 17, 2019 7:29:48 GMT -5
After buying 2 more comics I already had, I decided that my record keeping has to be changed. Up til now, I've had a list of the actual, comics that I own. Ex: Thor 1-8, 11-13 This represents the books that I own. I am changing and retyping my want lists to be like : Thor 9, 14, 15 , 16 I have to do this because of all the duplicates I buy each year. That became a big problem for me a few years ago, so I bit the bullet and signed up for a paid account at comicspriceguide.com. It costs around $50/year and it has unlimited storage, and one of the things I can do is print a want list (which I always carry along when I'm going to dig through boxes. When I first signed up, I had around 10,000 comics, and it took a couple of weeks to get them entered. Since then, I won't put anything new in boxes until I've entered them , but it's no big deal to do that. |
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Nov 17, 2019 8:08:00 GMT -5
My method is that I have a google docs account where I keep an inventory of the books that I have and am actively collecting. It's always on my cell phone via their app, so I don't need a physical list unless I'm in a place with bad internet connections. The real problem is that I haven't been diligent in my record keeping. Also, some of the duplicates I buy are just spur of the moment buys. An example is that I bought Richard Dragon Kung Fu Fighter # 11 twice in the last few months because I don't really collect it, it was part of a 50cents box and I got it to round up to full dollars. I'm confident that I have the problem licked as I started to check my boxes and verify what I really have. My actual lists have only the books that I need. Good to hear from you again, Pat T. |
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Nov 17, 2019 8:12:37 GMT -5
I just wanted to add that I also bought a dupe of Good Girls Quarterly last week, but there's no numbering on the covers, so I was going on memory. I think I have that problem licked as well. What I did is take a screen shot of al the available issues from Mikes Amazing world site and now have that on my phone.  The ones with an " X" are the ones I own. |
|
|
|
Post by earl on Nov 17, 2019 9:48:17 GMT -5
Still have not finished this task on my collection. I got my Marvel somewhat in order, but i need to go back through and merge in a couple of boxes and finish up my documentation on exactly what is in what box in some of the later ones. Working on organizing my DC stuff and I'm about 1/2 way through. Still need to sort the "other stuff" together in by alpha. It's mostly in short boxes and somewhat sorted by either title and/or writer (like I got a box of Ed Brubaker stuff, a box of Grant Morrison stuff, a box of Warren Ellis comics etc...)
Finally got to go to a small con for the first time in a couple of years a few weeks back and I did get a Brave and the Bold #91 that I had already gotten before. So my work is not quite perfect yet. (I am getting close to completing my Batman collection.)
|
|
|
|
Post by Ozymandias on Nov 17, 2019 11:46:14 GMT -5
Collected editions are by alphanumerical title order. European albums are by author. Floppies are by title, both outside and inside the boxes. There's another smaller shelf with SSoC (most of the first 50 issues) + some undesirables. All of it is in an excel file I update with Gnumeric, which also serves as a wish list; I fill the holes in the collection and highlighted them (bold), for easy spotting.  |
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Nov 17, 2019 14:37:07 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by Ozymandias on Nov 17, 2019 16:53:33 GMT -5
Thanks, can you spot the trophy on those shelves, that really makes me proud? It can be seen even at a distance.
|
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Nov 17, 2019 17:54:48 GMT -5
I need help with that one.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ozymandias on Nov 17, 2019 18:23:38 GMT -5
It's a trophy because it involved a hunt. It wasn't so much the amount of money I had to spend (about $300), as the time I spent finishing the kill. First I had to get rid of the old version, something I couldn't accomplish until 2004, and after that, almost 10 years to track down the right printing (it was the design of the edition I was interested in).
|
|
|
|
Post by Icctrombone on Nov 17, 2019 19:01:27 GMT -5
I’m figuring something to do with Watchmen.
|
|
|
|
Post by beccabear67 on Nov 17, 2019 23:29:16 GMT -5
I started a weird thing where I get a pic of the cover and put it in a folder, I then name the image 1974-03 Amazing Adventures 23, or 1975-03 Superboy And The Legion Of Super-Heroes 207. They are all in chronological then alphabetical order that way. You can run a slide show and go through from earliest to latest, but it's hard to keep it up to date sometimes, and really hasn't been for awhile, I always seem to forget something or have trouble finding an image of the cover I like.
I wish I had some proper comic long boxes... I'll have to get some eventually. Believe it or not I've never owned any, I've always used library boxes that hold maybe a dozen comics,and they sit flat in s tack in those, or bookshelves. Way back I even had them in a big steamer trunk, but all orderly standing up like bookshelves. Oh and I also used to put the best ones flat in dresser drawers at one time. Anywhere cool and out of the sun seemed like a good place to me.
|
|
|
|
Post by Ozymandias on Nov 18, 2019 2:13:54 GMT -5
I’m figuring something to do with Watchmen. It does have a lot of editions, but the only distinct feature in any of them, was some oversized hardcover. To be honest, I don't want to look at Dave's drawings in a bigger format. The series I'm talking about has almost as many printings as Watchmen, and the thing I like about the design, is how the volumes have a general likeness although they aren't even in the same colour. |
|
|
|
Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 18, 2019 5:09:53 GMT -5
I’m figuring something to do with Watchmen. It does have a lot of editions, but the only distinct feature in any of them, was some oversized hardcover. To be honest, I don't want to look at Dave's drawings in a bigger format. The series I'm talking about has almost as many printings as Watchmen, and the thing I like about the design, is how the volumes have a general likeness although they aren't even in the same colour. Since you mentioned 'Dave' I guess you're talking about Cerebus? |
|
|
|
Post by Ozymandias on Nov 18, 2019 6:15:58 GMT -5
I meant Dave Gibbons, we were talking about Watchmen. Cerebus is a long series, which places you in the right track, but AFAIK, you can only tell editions apart by looking at the printing number. This is a long series, the one I'm talking about isn't that long, although it can still be easily spotted.
|
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 23, 2019 7:50:07 GMT -5
Purely alphabetically, in long & short boxes. The only place this gets iffy is with the X-Men. When X-Men switches to Uncanny I just keep filing them in the same place. The later series just called X-Men goes after the Uncanny. Those drawer boxes are very appealing. They don't work nearly as well as one would hope. I got a few, and you CANT stack them 6 high... they're not strong enough, and end up bowing to the weight and making so you can't actually pull the boxes out easily. I was super excited to get them.. but after getting them for about 1/3 of my boxes i stopped. I have my comics in alpha order by title, more or less. I do make some exceptions to put families of titles together, and try to keep a run on one book in the same box. I have a spreadsheet with everything I own and which box (which are numbered) a title is in. I also have a milk crate or two of 'to read' and a bucket of 'read but not filed', which I clean out a couple times a year. |
|
