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Storing My Matt Baker Collection

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As I mentioned in my first post, my main collecting project right now is to get a copy of every comic with a cover by Matt Baker.  By my count there are 293 Baker comics.  Currently I have 133 of them, so I still have a long way to go.  Here are a few from my collection.

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Most of my Bakers are raw (88 are raw and 45 graded).  I store the raw Bakers on shelves in a small alcove in my comic room.  Like most beach houses, we have a shower you access from the outside (so you can wash off when you come off the beach).  The alcove is above the shower so that's why it's kind of small.  Anyway, I built shelves in the alcove to store comics.  You might wonder about moisture getting into the alcove but that's not a concern because the shower below is well ventilated.

The shelves though are narrow.  Here's a picture to show scale.  They are about the size of a Pop figure box turned on its side.

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I used to store the raw Bakers in 4 rows on one of the shelves -- see the picture below.  You can see I was running out of room.

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So recently I built more shelves in the alcove -- see below.  In this picture the raw Bakers are still stored in the narrow shelves, on the left.  I built the shelves so below there's room for 2 CGC-sized boxes.

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The new shelves are much deeper.  Below is a picture of the Pop figure to show scale. 

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Now I store the raw Bakers in 2 rows on one of the new shelves.  Even though I have them in 2 rows (rather than 4), the bigger shelves give me room for expansion. 

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This next picture provides a better view of the alcove and the new shelves.  I'm always trying to figure out ways to display comics.  Here I'm displaying some of my favorite Bakers, his romantic covers with minimal writing on the cover.  Thanks for reading.

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19 hours ago, 1950's war comics said:

I really like the cover of Pictorial Romance #6 as it is probably the best Carrier cover i have yet seen..... i may someday start a carrier cover sub-set , there are not too many i have seen, 

Todays modern carriers cost about 6 billion and carry around 4,000 men each i believe

I never thought of doing that, what a cool idea.  For some reason I love aircraft carriers. 

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Yep carriers are awesome , i think they are the largest man made objects ... 

there were five carrier vs carrier battles against the Japs in WW11 and all were AWESOME reading especially Midway and Coral Sea...

Midway was one of the greatest and most unlikely victories in history and just plain GREAT reading

 

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On 7/9/2017 at 9:35 AM, sacentaur said:

Impressive - I've managed to gather 93 Bakers in 19 months, still a long way to go.

Any dupes, please feel free to PM me. :foryou:

LOL if you have any Cinderella love dupes contact me   !!!!

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7 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

lol if you have any Cinderella love dupes contact me   !!!!

No such luck... :sorry:

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18 minutes ago, 1950's war comics said:

Yep carriers are awesome , i think they are the largest man made objects ... 

there were five carrier vs carrier battles against the Japs in WW11 and all were AWESOME reading especially Midway and Coral Sea...

Midway was one of the greatest and most unlikely victories in history and just plain GREAT reading

 

Yeah, back in grade school there was a book on the Battle of Midway.  I think I must have read it a dozen times. 

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thanks for sharing

well done on gathering a beautiful collection and your bespoke space - neat.

I was just about to count Baker covers but found this post so you've saved me the effort.... 

... but now I'm curious how many are romance vs. crime vs. jungle vs. (the odd) horror... 

 

 

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