Let me ask, who didn't start their collection in their sock drawer?

When I graduated to y first box I didn't use bags and boards. I would place my books inside (unprotected) by company, title, and issue number. These were also placed in order of how much I liked them. Of course the New Mutants were first. The only time any book was bagged and boarded was if I bought them that way translation: back issues). It was about three years after I started collection (or 3 to 4 boxes later) that I started to protect my books with this process, but only with my favorites.

Without them bagged and boarded I was able to take off the box lid and count the spines without having to rifle through with my fingers. I would use a notebook and write the numbers down; adding it up when I was finished. At the age I was I was happier with the quantity of my collection and not the quality (how times have changes). The more my collection grew the happier I became.

My collection reached 12,000 (45 long boxes) when I opted (for this necessity) to reduce and expunge the majority of my collection. The 3 titles I decided to retain an continue collecting were Daredevil (3 more needed), The Uncanny X-Men, and The Amazing Spider-Man. Everything else (with minor exceptions) would be traded in. As I was separating what I was keeping and what I was shedding, two other titles were spared: The Spectacular Spider-Man and X-men.

I purchased software to keep track of what remained. I added everything and kept it up to date until a couple months ago. The latest count before I started to fall behind was slightly over 5,000 comic books. This number includes my CGC collection. Lately I have been falling behind. After working 42 days straight (the answer to everything); some of those doubles, sporadic internet service, a broken toe , and pure laziness my collection has become disorganized. I do plan on fixing this but I think I might count my books like I used to by perusing through the box and taking a visual count of the books I have starting of course with my CGC collection, after all I still want to be at 300 by the end of the year.

Thanks for Reading

Tnerb

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