In my first entry I mentioned the lot of wolverine back stock I purchased around 2009 that has just been sitting in my old bedroom at my mother’s house. I recently went and got those and decided to finally make my way through them all and see what I have. This is a huge task for me because I’ve never really had to handle this many comics but it will also be instrumental in helping me get to my end goal of my CGC 9.8 run.  I didn’t really know where to start so I just set up as many folding table that I had where ever I could fit them in my basement and started laying them all out. I would find 20 of an issue in one box and then another 20 of the same issue 4 boxes later so now at least they were together.

I’m used to looking though long boxes at LCS trying to find one minty back issue that might have a chance of getting that coveted 9.8. What I typically come across at the LCS is from collections sold to shop and not so much back stock that have left over.  So when I look at these stacks of these uncirculated books I just get a little happy inside. I know that most of these books would end up in the $1 bin (or less) for a lot of people but I really do enjoy them. I guess to each their own. This is also why my wife calls me a comic hoarder and not a collector.

So every night after the wife and kids go to bed I descend into the basement to bag, board, sort, index, etc.  My goals at night are pretty simple. I take a stack of one issue, I pick out one that I’m planning to send to CGC to grade, I pick one nice one to save for myself raw (because even though I like my slabs there is something special about a high grade raw in a bag and board) and then I take the worst copy for my reader. So 3 copies for me and the rest will get bagged, boarded, indexed and filed away in a long box. I will eventually use a few more for full runs for some family members, but for now we will consider them filed away.

I’m starting with all the issues that I already have CGC 9.8’s of. That way I just take a nice raw and a reader and never have to worry about them again.

This is my progress so far:

Wolverine #50                   (57 Copies)

Wolverine #62                   (75 Copies)

Wolverine #65                   (79 Copies)

Wolverine #66                   (29 Copies)

Wolverine #86                   (12 Copies)

Wolverine #89 Deluxe      (88 Copies)

Wolverine #91                   (27 Copies)

Wolverine #109                 (30 Copies)

Wolverine #169                 (37 Copies)

This is a picture of the stacks. They are on tables throughout the basement. Something about them makes me smile. 

If anyone out there has any experience with processing these big lots I would love to know the tricks of the trade to do this as efficiently as possible.