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Post by tarkintino on Feb 5, 2024 18:16:23 GMT -5
I have all my Spider-Man comics filed under 'D' for Ditko. I have my Spider-Man collection filed under T for "Turned into a classic title once Romita took over"  |
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Post by Confessor on Feb 5, 2024 19:03:25 GMT -5
I have all my Spider-Man comics filed under 'D' for Ditko. Avant-garde...I like it.  |
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Post by berkley on Feb 5, 2024 19:42:24 GMT -5
I have all my Spider-Man comics filed under 'D' for Ditko. I used to keep some of my favourite creators separate- Alan Moore, Kirby, Gerber, the Hernandezes, Clowes, ... but it's hard to be consistent with it, especially with the Marvel/DC suff whisch is usually in collaboration and part of an ongoing title with a history before and after any one contributor. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 5, 2024 20:03:20 GMT -5
I have a long box devoted just to artists that I like , not necessarily any title. It contains Neal Adam’s, Alan Davis, Paul Gulacy and a few others.
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Post by MDG on Feb 5, 2024 20:40:40 GMT -5
I have a short box that's just "special" series and deluxe format: Dark Knight, Crisis, Who's Who, Chaykin's Shadow, Killing Joke, etc.
Also, one short box and about 2/3 of another that's mainly undergrounds, though also has some things not strictly in that category, like comic-size stuff by Los Bros, Avenging World and Wha!? By Ditko, risograph books by Ryan Heshka, and the like.
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Post by codystarbuck on Feb 5, 2024 21:30:56 GMT -5
Does that mean that Silver Surfer goes on W for Whiner? No, no; A for Argent. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Feb 5, 2024 22:04:52 GMT -5
I have my own funky organization method that works only for me and my predilections for comics.
I have books divided into the following categories-
-Magazine sized comics & OGN
-Conan, other Howard Heroes & Sword & Sorcery Comics
-D&D Related Comics
-Long series (series of characters than ran for more than 50 issues; so a character with multiple series running less than 50 issues each but totaling more than 50 issues-say Hellboy; would go here)
-Short Series (series or characters that ran 50 issues or less)
-DC War
-Batman Family related books
-Superman Family related books
-Disney Ducks & Other Disney Miscellanea
-Hanna Barbera Comics
-Special Collections
Within Special Collections I keep the following:
-All in Color for A Dime (any comic I own with a 10 cent cover price since these tend to require Golden Age bags/boards and are slightly larger than standard comic size)
-Devil in a Red Dress (any comic I got only because it has a red dress covers; if it's part of a series or run I otherwise collect, it goes with those instead)
-EC and EC Reprints
-Other Golden/Atomic Age Reprint Anthologies
-Romance
-Westerns
It's more about ease of being able to find certain things and ease of adding stuff tot he boxes to keep stuff together without having to shift stuff from box to box as acquisitions outpace remaining space. It will seem Byzantine to anyone else, but it makes sense to me, and it works for me. I've changed my system a few times over the years, never quite being satisfied how it all works, but this one is working for me so far.
-M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Feb 5, 2024 22:08:45 GMT -5
I've considered trading simplicity for not having to shuffle stuff but I've got the shuffling down to a science. The trick it keep things MOSTLY in order. I'm happy if all the 't' titles in the same box, I don't care too much if Tom and Jerry are before Thing
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 5, 2024 23:02:17 GMT -5
I have a short box that's just "special" series and deluxe format: Dark Knight, Crisis, Who's Who, Chaykin's Shadow, Killing Joke, etc. Also, one short box and about 2/3 of another that's mainly undergrounds, though also has some things not strictly in that category, like comic-size stuff by Los Bros, Avenging World and Wha!? By Ditko, risograph books by Ryan Heshka, and the like. I keep what were true miniseries (e.g., Who's Who, Sword of the Atom, COIE, Solomon Kane, History of the DC Universe, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, etc.) in separate boxes from series which were intended to run longer, but yanked (e.g., Screen Thrills Illustrated, Spacemen Magazine, Bizarre Adventures, The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor, Marvel Super Special, etc.), which is still sectioned off from cancelled series that had a healthy run (e.g. Unexpected, Gold Key's Star Trek, etc.). |
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Post by Prince Hal on Feb 5, 2024 23:58:34 GMT -5
I have a long box devoted just to artists that I like , not necessarily any title. It contains Neal Adam’s, Alan Davis, Paul Gulacy and a few others. You’re forgetting someone, aren’t you? |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Feb 6, 2024 4:20:53 GMT -5
I have a long box devoted just to artists that I like , not necessarily any title. It contains Neal Adam’s, Alan Davis, Paul Gulacy and a few others. You’re forgetting someone, aren’t you? Yeah, I know. I can't believe he forgot Frank Robbins, either. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 6, 2024 4:47:09 GMT -5
You’re forgetting someone, aren’t you? Yeah, I know. I can't believe he forgot Frank Robbins, either. Ha, Frank Robbins gets attacked, but to me his only negative feature was some poses where bodies seemed to be missing bones. |
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Post by tonebone on Feb 6, 2024 9:18:51 GMT -5
Yeah, I know. I can't believe he forgot Frank Robbins, either. Ha, Frank Robbins gets attacked, but to me his only negative feature was some poses where bodies seemed to be missing bones. His only other negative feature is his tendency to fill every single square inch of the page with random Milt Caniff brushstrokes. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Feb 6, 2024 11:29:50 GMT -5
I have all my Spider-Man comics filed under 'D' for Ditko. I used to keep some of my favourite creators separate- Alan Moore, Kirby, Gerber, the Hernandezes, Clowes, ... but it's hard to be consistent with it, especially with the Marvel/DC suff whisch is usually in collaboration and part of an ongoing title with a history before and after any one contributor. My strategy is based on what I'm liable to want to read. Typically, I collect comics based on author, so Moore's, Kirby's, Hernandez's, and Clowes' work is all together. But if I feel like reading a Superman, Batman, or Spider-Man comic, then I usually want to read a run of them, so they are filed under 'S,' 'K,' and 'D' respectively. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Feb 24, 2024 1:06:51 GMT -5
So part of the process of organizing my comics is finding fixtures to put short boxes on. About a year ago (sometime before my hiatus from here), I had one of the heavy duty plastic shelving units collapse when the plastic pole bent from the weight of 3 shelves of short boxes on top of it, dumping everything on the floor and having comics sliding out of boxes onto the floors as well. It was a nightmare of a clean up, but I got it done and began to search for a replacement shelving unit. I found one on Amazon that looked promising. It was a metal shelf, on wheels to make it easy to move if need be, rated to hold enough weight to keep 3 short boxes on each shelf and the 12 overall that would be on it. It was easy to set up (it if foldable, with extra support cross-brackets to give it sturdiness and the top shelf flips into place and locks to add additional support to its structure. It was priced right, so I ordered one from Amazon. seeing that it was still holding up, I ordered a second one, and last month a third. I am currently shuffling what boxes are where on these shelves, so I had one of the shelves partially empty and snapped some pics of it today. This is what they look like partially empty...  If you look closely, you can see the top shelf is a solid piece, while the lower shelf is hinged in the middle to fold. The cross supports are on the bottom half of the shelf, not the top 2 shelves...  and the wheels at the bottom are sturdy as well (this was my biggest concern and why I only got 1 initially)  and this is what one looks like fully loaded...  I like them because they are narrower than the plastic shelves I used, but taller, meaning only 3 short boxes per shelf, not 4 to reduce the weight a bit. Boxes slide in and out easily when you want to add books in or take books out but stay in place otherwise. They're tall enough to keep lids on if you want as well. I still have 3 plastic shelves being used, but I am planning on replacing them with more of these metal shelves as budget allows (they're $80 per unit, which some might think is a bit steep, but the plastic shelves I use run $60 per unit and have proven to be susceptible to the poles wearing out (the shelves themselves are awesome and hold up, the plastic poles between the shelves however not so much), so I don't mind a $20 difference for peace of mind (and the shelves of the collapsed unit were salvaged and used to keep things we store in the basement up off the floor now). I don't so long boxes anymore, they are too heavy for me with the lifting restrictions I have lived with since I started having abdominal/hernia issues several years ago, and these won't work for those as they are not broad enough to put a long box on them, but they are perfect for short boxes. So if you are considering shelving units for your short boxes, you might want to give these a look. Stealing the Amazon listing pic so you can see what I mean by foldable and what they look like empty.  If anyone is interested, I can provide a link to the Amazon listing. -M |
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