I go alphabetic by title. Thus, Amazing Spider-Man is filed under "A"; Peter Parker, The Spec. . .is filed under "P", etc.

There are exceptions. For example, Special Marvel Edition #15 is filed with Master of Kung-Fu just so that I can find it easily.

I'm inconsistent in what I do. I have my Spider titles all together, alphabetically by title. But I actually have Spider titles and X-books separated out rather within the alphabet, except I have Excalibur included in my alphabetically listed titles.

I have my Outsiders comics in the alphabetical location for "Outsiders", but among themselves it's chronological. So it goes from Batman and the Outsiders to Adventures of the Outsiders to Outsiders.

I used to be totally unorganized, so this is a step up. But I have a spreadsheet that has rows in the order that there is my boxes, so everything is cool. Except I have some comics that I haven't organized yet stacked up loose rather than boxed.

I echo most of what others have already written. Just straight alphabetical for 90% of them, no family groupings. Amazing Spidey is in the "A" area, Peter Parker: Spectacular Spidey is in the "P" area, and Web of Spidey is in the "W" area, as it should be.

Exceptions are things like:
Hero for Hire/Power Man/Power Man & Iron Fist - all one long run in "H", not chopped up into bits.
Original Iron Man first, then the Heroes Return-era Iron Man, then the Invincible Iron Man iterations, rather than those first and Iron Man later.
Marc Spector: Moon Knight - I do have this out of order, fitting it in chronologically among the other Moon Knight series instead of up in "MA"
West Coast Avengers/Avengers West Coast - I store this all together in the "A" section, rather than splitting it or storing all of it in "W", since the rest of the Avengers books are there.

This is strictly for my Marvel books.  My DC books are stored separately in the same manner, but I don't mix the two major publishers.  All other books from various other publishers are stored together in the same alphabetical manner, but they are not grouped by publisher solely. 

Phil Maurice - I do the exact same thing with my Marvel Special Edition #15, because it makes the most sense for it to be there.

Alphabetical with title changes located with what they belong with like West Coast Avengers in Avengers, all the Elfquestsgo together etc. The exception for me though is some comics I do tend to place together when they are shorter runs. So in this type of instance I will put similar types of series together which "fit" like my runs of Green Arrow with The Question, my Werewolf by Night goes with Frankenstein and Tomb of Dracula. My British goodies of Dredd, Rogue Trooper and others together. My War and Westerns go together alphabetically. The glory 80s days of independent b/w titles are united in a box. Just makes life easier for pulling to read.

Grouped by color of the cover, following the progression of the color spectrum. Doesn't make it easy to find a book; but, it shur is perty!



Actually, I divested my collection 20 years ago. When I had it, it was alphabetical by title. If the title changed names, it stayed with whatever the original title was. I didn't read Batman & the Outsiders, beyond a couple of issue, so I never ran into that. I also didn't care what indicia says, New Teen Titans was filed under N and Teen Titans under T. Spider-Man was filed under Don't Own Much Cause I Don't Care Much For The Character. I had a handful of Amazings and a few Marvel Tales; but, Marvel Team-Up was the only Spidey-Book I ever really read. Too much whining in his own title. I did have Untold Tales, later, because of Busiek.

I used to have a stack of Treasure Chest comics and those were a pain, because they had different volumes and issue numbers and I only had a few that were published in sequence (got them from a friend who bought them, cheap, at a garage sale, then got bored with them).

Whatever fits in the box. A few years ago I switched to the small boxes and got rid of my long boxes. There's a lot of titles bleeding into other boxes. I do put Marvels Greatest and Marvels Collectors items classic with the Fantastic  Four books. I think it runs through 4 boxes. Just like you, I use a spread sheet that I get from Google docs.  My Avengers boxes also contains the Defenders issues from the Avengers/ Defenders war and the Submariner issues that have the prototype of the Defenders( they take on the Avengers in the second part). I try to make it easy to read the books that connect. I have a lot of the Triangle era Superman books. It annoys me to read any stories from those years, as I have to reach into 3 or 4 different boxes for one arc.

I have one one box of favorite creators. Neal Adams, Starlin, Moore, Alan Davis and a few others. That's a box of titles I bought just because they did an issue or two from them.