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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2024 11:07:14 GMT -5
I have one simple question.
Who has the most comics on CCF? I know it's not me, I'm in the 6200-6300 range. That's including the stash I was made part-owner of as a child in England, almost 500 Hardcovers and 1600+ Archies....
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 19, 2024 12:16:38 GMT -5
I have one simple question. Who has the most comics on CCF? I know it's not me, I'm in the 6200-6300 range. That's including the stash I was made part-owner of as a child in England, almost 500 Hardcovers and 1600+ Archies.... I'm not sure of the exact number (I'm in the process of cataloging and purging stuff) but it's somewhere upwards of 10K (10K is usually the point I reach that triggers a purge, this will be the 4th time I exceeded it in my lifetime). -M |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 19, 2024 12:30:41 GMT -5
Just checked, I have just over 5K cataloged and I'd estimate that I only have about 40% of the short boxes and file cabinets currently cataloged...
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 19, 2024 13:28:54 GMT -5
I have 67 short boxes and 13 long. There are various books unboxed lying around the house. If I ball park it I would say from 14-15K.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 19, 2024 13:36:44 GMT -5
It's been a while since I've done a count but I'd be surprised if I have much more than 5,000 actual paper-and-ink comics these days, plus a couple of hundred trades and hardcovers. Now, digital copies is a whole nother matter. I've got something like 35,000 of those, including virtually every DC published between 1934 and 1986 (romance comics excepted), along with several hundred fanzines and a slew of ebooks on comics history.
Cei-U!
I summon the guesstimations!
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 19, 2024 15:25:23 GMT -5
I think I own 3 digital comics. I just rent them on Marvel Unlimited. I also have the gitmo dvd-roms of FF and Avengers .
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 21, 2024 15:31:40 GMT -5
I think I own 3 digital comics. I just rent them on Marvel Unlimited. I also have the gitmo dvd-roms of FF and Avengers . I need to get back to Marvel Unlimited, I used to be big into digital until Amazon ruined comicvine. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 21, 2024 17:28:15 GMT -5
I think I own 3 digital comics. I just rent them on Marvel Unlimited. I also have the gitmo dvd-roms of FF and Avengers . I need to get back to Marvel Unlimited, I used to be big into digital until Amazon ruined comicvine. I pay 69 bucks a year. It's worth it. |
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 21, 2024 17:35:15 GMT -5
I have one simple question. Who has the most comics on CCF? I know it's not me, I'm in the 6200-6300 range. That's including the stash I was made part-owner of as a child in England, almost 500 Hardcovers and 1600+ Archies....
Currently, I'm just shy of 16,000 floppies, most of which (around 6900) are DC, roughly 3600 Marvel, and the rest (around 5000) are Independent, Charlton, Archie, and everything else, including defunct publishers and oddball Golden Age titles. As far as trades, collections and hardcovers, I haven't done a hard count, but I'd estimate somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 or so. I'm bigger into the aspect of single issues, obviously. Generally, I don't buy duplicate trades or Omnibuses for things that I already have complete as floppies, although there have been exceptions (like the signed HC collection of Xenozoic Tales). The vast majority of my collection pre-dates 1992, with most falling in the silver, bronze and copper-age titles. Surprisingly, I do have things rather well organized; and I maintain my collection cataloging using the GCD "mycomics.org" feature, which allows me to track everything at a glance. I can look up a title, pull it from the collection and have a specific issue in my hands in about 30 seconds.
I don't count or include digital comics of any kind, other than occasionally reading old books which are now in the public domain, like stuff on Comic Book Plus or the Internet Archive.
I just don't get along well with digital comics.
As far as storage goes, I've got five 5-drawer lateral file cabinets about 90% full; I don't mess with long boxes or short boxes other than for sorting and temporary storage.
When I'm gone, the whole thing goes to my son, who already has a healthy collection of his own. God help him on moving this stuff!
Yes, I'm truly cursed with the mentality of an archivist.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 21, 2024 22:10:44 GMT -5
Physically, I have 0 comics. Digitally, I pretty much have every DC and Marvel published between 1935 and 2015, all of Warren, EC, Atlas/Seaboard, most of the major independents from 1979 through about 1999 (ish) and most Golden and Silver Age publisher's books, as well as the majority of Archie and Harvey, through the early-mid 1980s. There are some small gaps in there, in specific titles, at certain publishers. I also have quite a bit of European work, in English translations or in other languages and certain manga titles (more earlier days than the late 90s boom). I also have digital of most of the major fanzines/industry magazines, which is where I do a lot of my research (Comic Book Journal, Amazing Heroes, Jack Kirby Collector, Comic Book Artist, Back Issue, Alter Ego, FOOM, Amazing World of DC, Charlton Bullseye, Comic Book Feature, Comic Book Collector, Comics Interview, etc)
I used to have quite a library of comic book reference books, including the Ron Goulart histories, the Mike Benton series of histories, Jules Feiffer's book, Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson's pair, Fred Schott's Manga history, Gerard Jones' books, Jeff Rovin's encyclopedias and several more and have a chunk of those digitally, now.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 25, 2024 8:22:01 GMT -5
Physically, I have 0 comics. Digitally, I pretty much have every DC and Marvel published between 1935 and 2015, all of Warren, EC, Atlas/Seaboard, most of the major independents from 1979 through about 1999 (ish) and most Golden and Silver Age publisher's books, as well as the majority of Archie and Harvey, through the early-mid 1980s. There are some small gaps in there, in specific titles, at certain publishers. I also have quite a bit of European work, in English translations or in other languages and certain manga titles (more earlier days than the late 90s boom). I also have digital of most of the major fanzines/industry magazines, which is where I do a lot of my research (Comic Book Journal, Amazing Heroes, Jack Kirby Collector, Comic Book Artist, Back Issue, Alter Ego, FOOM, Amazing World of DC, Charlton Bullseye, Comic Book Feature, Comic Book Collector, Comics Interview, etc) I used to have quite a library of comic book reference books, including the Ron Goulart histories, the Mike Benton series of histories, Jules Feiffer's book, Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson's pair, Fred Schott's Manga history, Gerard Jones' books, Jeff Rovin's encyclopedias and several more and have a chunk of those digitally, now. Cody and I are the same type of collectors. I used to own a massively sick amount of comics. Sold every single one of them about 11 years ago The past 5 years or so my obsessive nature had me collect digital downloads. I wanted everything available, any genre, company, decade etc. (Actually the major exception would be Charlton's Hot Rod Comics. They published 100s of those and it was all basically the same story) My digital comic collection stands at 200,000 items, 1,200 undergrounds, 2,000 non-comic magazines, 8,200 pulp magazines, 5,000 eBooks, and 68,000 newspaper strip items Clearly I am one sick puppy. So much so that I went thru every item listed in the 2021 Overstreet Price Guide and searched for a download Got a google doc of 2,938 comics that seem to have been unscanned. I can provide a link to that google doc if allowed/ or anyone having an interest I know, I know, I've got an OCD issue but at least I drew the line with Charlton Hot Rod books |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 25, 2024 12:10:34 GMT -5
Physically, I have 0 comics. Digitally, I pretty much have every DC and Marvel published between 1935 and 2015, all of Warren, EC, Atlas/Seaboard, most of the major independents from 1979 through about 1999 (ish) and most Golden and Silver Age publisher's books, as well as the majority of Archie and Harvey, through the early-mid 1980s. There are some small gaps in there, in specific titles, at certain publishers. I also have quite a bit of European work, in English translations or in other languages and certain manga titles (more earlier days than the late 90s boom). I also have digital of most of the major fanzines/industry magazines, which is where I do a lot of my research (Comic Book Journal, Amazing Heroes, Jack Kirby Collector, Comic Book Artist, Back Issue, Alter Ego, FOOM, Amazing World of DC, Charlton Bullseye, Comic Book Feature, Comic Book Collector, Comics Interview, etc) I used to have quite a library of comic book reference books, including the Ron Goulart histories, the Mike Benton series of histories, Jules Feiffer's book, Dick Lupoff and Don Thompson's pair, Fred Schott's Manga history, Gerard Jones' books, Jeff Rovin's encyclopedias and several more and have a chunk of those digitally, now. Cody and I are the same type of collectors. I used to own a massively sick amount of comics. Sold every single one of them about 11 years ago The past 5 years or so my obsessive nature had me collect digital downloads. I wanted everything available, any genre, company, decade etc. (Actually the major exception would be Charlton's Hot Rod Comics. They published 100s of those and it was all basically the same story) My digital comic collection stands at 200,000 items, 1,200 undergrounds, 2,000 non-comic magazines, 8,200 pulp magazines, 5,000 eBooks, and 68,000 newspaper strip items Clearly I am one sick puppy. So much so that I went thru every item listed in the 2021 Overstreet Price Guide and searched for a download Got a google doc of 2,938 comics that seem to have been unscanned. I can provide a link to that google doc if allowed/ or anyone having an interest I know, I know, I've got an OCD issue but at least I drew the line with Charlton Hot Rod books I got a little of that. At first, I kind of skipped the romance and horror stuff, but, got more of that later, especially the romance stuff, after seeing some of the artists involved, and reading about funky stories, like Charlton's Tiffany Sinn, a romance comic secret agent. I tried to get a sampling of the hot rod stuff, for Jack Keller's artwork. Most of my frustrations have been more modern independent comics, particularly from the 90s, and a few English translations of European works. I have long sought digital copies of Caliber's Swords of Shar-Pei miniseries. I found the sequel, Guns of Shar-Pei; but, not the original. Another is Josef Naftali's The Dark, from Continuum. Mark Bright did art and George Perez did a cover, for the 4th issue. It was a decent little series, about an immortal warrior, kind of like a more superhero Highlander. The other main one is Scarlet Thunder, from Slave Labor Graphics' Amaze Inc imprint. It featured the story of two rival speedsters, created as experimental super-soldiers, in WW2, written by SLG founder Dan Vado. The other biggie would be the individual issues of Greg Highland's Lethargic Comics Weakly and the revised Lethargic Lad series. I have a digital copy of the Big Book of Lethargic Lad compilation, but I enjoyed the other features, in Lethargic Comics Weakly, like The Grad, Him, Guy-With-A-Gun, No-Mutants, and The Walrus. On the European front, I'd like to find digital versions of the Catalan Communications translations of Vittorio Giardino's Hungarian Rhapsody and Orient Gateway, featuring Max Fridman, as well as No Pasaran!, with Max returning to Spain, after leaving the Civil War behind. I have all of the Max Fridman in Spanish, which I can mostly follow, and either French or Italian (I forget which). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2024 12:44:08 GMT -5
Cody and I are the same type of collectors. I used to own a massively sick amount of comics. Sold every single one of them about 11 years ago The past 5 years or so my obsessive nature had me collect digital downloads. I wanted everything available, any genre, company, decade etc. (Actually the major exception would be Charlton's Hot Rod Comics. They published 100s of those and it was all basically the same story) My digital comic collection stands at 200,000 items, 1,200 undergrounds, 2,000 non-comic magazines, 8,200 pulp magazines, 5,000 eBooks, and 68,000 newspaper strip items Clearly I am one sick puppy. So much so that I went thru every item listed in the 2021 Overstreet Price Guide and searched for a download Got a google doc of 2,938 comics that seem to have been unscanned. I can provide a link to that google doc if allowed/ or anyone having an interest I know, I know, I've got an OCD issue but at least I drew the line with Charlton Hot Rod books
Ish, good to see you back here. Just in case you didn't recognise my name, I'm probably the only one here with a MAGA cap lol.....
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 25, 2024 13:07:33 GMT -5
Cody and I are the same type of collectors. I used to own a massively sick amount of comics. Sold every single one of them about 11 years ago The past 5 years or so my obsessive nature had me collect digital downloads. I wanted everything available, any genre, company, decade etc. (Actually the major exception would be Charlton's Hot Rod Comics. They published 100s of those and it was all basically the same story) My digital comic collection stands at 200,000 items, 1,200 undergrounds, 2,000 non-comic magazines, 8,200 pulp magazines, 5,000 eBooks, and 68,000 newspaper strip items Clearly I am one sick puppy. So much so that I went thru every item listed in the 2021 Overstreet Price Guide and searched for a download Got a google doc of 2,938 comics that seem to have been unscanned. I can provide a link to that google doc if allowed/ or anyone having an interest I know, I know, I've got an OCD issue but at least I drew the line with Charlton Hot Rod books
Ish, good to see you back here. Just in case you didn't recognise my name, I'm probably the only one here with a MAGA cap lol.....
Hey Rags, how's it going . Hope you and the family are all fine I don't care about what cap you wear. You got a good head on your shoulders |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 25, 2024 13:15:40 GMT -5
Cody and I are the same type of collectors. Most of my frustrations have been more modern independent comics, particularly from the 90s, and a few English translations of European works. I have long sought digital copies of Caliber's Swords of Shar-Pei miniseries. I found the sequel, Guns of Shar-Pei; but, not the original. Another is Josef Naftali's The Dark, from Continuum. Mark Bright did art and George Perez did a cover, for the 4th issue. It was a decent little series, about an immortal warrior, kind of like a more superhero Highlander. The other main one is Scarlet Thunder, from Slave Labor Graphics' Amaze Inc imprint. It featured the story of two rival speedsters, created as experimental super-soldiers, in WW2, written by SLG founder Dan Vado. The other biggie would be the individual issues of Greg Highland's Lethargic Comics Weakly and the revised Lethargic Lad series. I have a digital copy of the Big Book of Lethargic Lad compilation, but I enjoyed the other features, in Lethargic Comics Weakly, like The Grad, Him, Guy-With-A-Gun, No-Mutants, and The Walrus. On the European front, I'd like to find digital versions of the Catalan Communications translations of Vittorio Giardino's Hungarian Rhapsody and Orient Gateway, featuring Max Fridman, as well as No Pasaran!, with Max returning to Spain, after leaving the Civil War behind. I have all of the Max Fridman in Spanish, which I can mostly follow, and either French or Italian (I forget which). Sorry to say that I can't be of any help with the books you've been frustrated trying to find. I've vaguely heard about a few of them, others I'm ignorant of, and all I've never attempted to find. Also I don't believe any of them ever got listed in Overstreet. What Overstreet chooses to include in it's guide when dealing with independent publications is really haphazard. There's even plenty of older titles from Image missing |
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