Looking back.... 4 4

[porcupine48]

I have three ring sheets just like that someplace keeping track of mine and my uncles books  . Must be twenty five plus years old now.Awesome!

 

[Get Marwood & I]

3 minutes ago, 01TheDude said:

I got the idea for making a list from Robert Bell... more or less

My first method (i was around 11 or 12) to keep track of my books utilized sheets of three ring paper and my own hand drawn check boxes:

sample page

codes used

I still have the entire list of my collection from that time and it is sort of helpful remembering where I was when I stopped in 1979 or so. I also used this to keep track of a few books I sold in the late 1980s and I can tell which ones they are as the check boxes were erased (mostly my X-Men).

When I went to re-bag and finally board my collection around 1990, I decided to buy some software to enter the condition, etc and I have those printouts still for the whole thing. This was the software I used:

Comic Collector version 1.0 

That was fine for a few decades as I really didn't add to the collection from 1979-2014. Still have the printouts and it helps as they are a little more accurate and include my first attempts at grading.

When I went to sell the collection but instead got back into collecting instead, I decided to not only re-bag/board them but also to use an online record keeping method. Checked out a bunch and went with Comic Book Realm. Not the best probably (the valuations are inflated) but not terrible either. Plus I can download the whole thing if I want to dump it into a spreadsheet or database at a later time (signed up for a lifetime membership).

But to be fair-- for the handful of titles I am currently working on, I put the missing issues on a simple post it that I have in my date book to cross reference as needed.

Nicely done Dude ?

[01TheDude]

check the edits-- added some more info

[1950's war comics]

1 hour ago, Patriot6 said:

Cool thread! My system is I buy what I think I need and get home and sort the books into my boxes and realise that I now have four copies....

Wouldn't have it any other way! 

LOL Now that is funny (and probably very true too!!) 

[1950's war comics]

When i was a kid (about 11 yrs old) and could only afford a couple comics a month , i actually bought a Sub-Mariner issue off the spinner rack that i already had somehow !! ??

so .... (this was before the "only two kids in the store at one time days")

Instead of telling the store i already had it and could i trade it (which i'm sure they would have said .....NO! )

i snuck it back into the rack and swapped it for a different comic ...............

 

[Ken Aldred]

I don't collect runs or focus solely on keys, just certain books which mean a lot to me.  Trying to put together long runs hasn't been an ambition since my teens.

It's easy for me to keep track of such a limited range of books, and so I don't really need a checklist system anymore.

[MagnusX]

This is my want list;
just a Microsoft Word page...

 

 

[bronze_rules]

Am I the only one that ever went into a store with the relevant issues written on their arm like a cheat sheet (hidden of course)?

I had a store that had  huge stacks of HG bronze romance, so I went home and isolated the issues I wanted (for whatever reason) and wrote them down to help me remember.

So the store guy sees me darting glances at my arm and goes, 'busted!'  I took it in stride and we both laughed, but it was a bit embarrassing, also I was kind of 

hiding my reasons and intentions, because I noticed the store guy would often buy issues I passed on.

Edited July 9, 2017 by bronze_rules

[oakman29]

24 minutes ago, MagnusX said:

This is my want list;
just a Microsoft Word page...

 

 

Man, I have just about everything on your want list, sans a couple of books.

[nocutename]

@01TheDude  Your handwritten entries look like an early Bullet Journal version. 

@Buzzetta  I had a purchasing system, nab whatever I can find cheap.    I still have all my Batman and Tec but honestly haven't collected anything on either title in a few years.  I have tangled with the idea of selling them and just collecting World's Finest for the past few years.

[nocutename]

@Marwood & I  This thread has prompted me to reorganize and audit my spreadsheet today.  After several hours it is done. 

[Fan Boy]

I still have my first checklist notebook from 1980s, I think I stowed it in one of my storage boxes years ago. Haven't looked at it since ... what? 25,30 years now? I use binder book now with pages of titles to seek. Old school is what I am, I never use the damn smartphone thing. 

[Get Marwood & I]

7 hours ago, MagnusX said:

This is my want list;
just a Microsoft Word page...

 

 

Ah, the traditional approach. I like it @MagnusX 

[Get Marwood & I]

7 hours ago, bronze_rules said:

Am I the only one that ever went into a store with the relevant issues written on their arm like a cheat sheet (hidden of course)?

I had a store that had  huge stacks of HG bronze romance, so I went home and isolated the issues I wanted (for whatever reason) and wrote them down to help me remember.

So the store guy sees me darting glances at my arm and goes, 'busted!'  I took it in stride and we both laughed, but it was a bit embarrassing, also I was kind of 

hiding my reasons and intentions, because I noticed the store guy would often buy issues I passed on.

No, I tried that at the London Fair a few times @bronze_rules. Then I realised a 49 year old man with Spider-Man's number written on his arms looked slightly dubious on the train.  

[Get Marwood & I]

5 hours ago, nocutename said:

@Marwood & I  This thread has prompted me to reorganize and audit my spreadsheet today.  After several hours it is done. 

Excellent!  So I do have a use on these boards after all 

[Patriot6]

13 hours ago, Marwood & I said:

Excellent!  So I do have a use on these boards after all 

That's the spirit! 

I enjoy many of your threads.

Now, if you could just do what you do with re-runs of that British sitcom I used watch on CBC where everyone works in the department store playing in the background, you will have attained hero status my friend. 

Are you being served? ...right?

Edited July 10, 2017 by Patriot6

[Get Marwood & I]

31 minutes ago, Patriot6 said:

That's the spirit! 

I enjoy many of your threads.

Now, if you could just do what you do with re-runs of that British sitcom I used watch on CBC where everyone works in the department store playing in the background, you will have attained hero status my friend. 

Are you being served? ...right?

[tomo]

8 minutes ago, Marwood & I said:

This made my day, thanks!

Damn, I miss watching this show every night at 11pm on WTVS Detroit Public TV.

[ADAMANTIUM]

It was a good show  

[Get Marwood & I]

Back on topic (Oh, really? Bugger!   ), this is what my Pence spreadsheets look like.

You can read all about them via the links in my sig line below. They slide up and down and everything!