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21 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

If you are considering a storage unit possibly you should first consider purging some of your collection. Especially, if you don look at it much. You will probably find that you don't really miss the stuff anyway. I've got a LOT of stuff I could get rid of and have no remourse at all.

Sales thread coming up? :wishluck:

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3 minutes ago, Robot Man said:

I wish I had time but I'm still a working stiff. Besides, if I were parting with what everybody here wants, I'd have LOTS of remourse.

Don't let that bother you.  We'd all help you get over it. :)

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3 hours ago, Robot Man said:

If you are considering a storage unit possibly you should first consider purging some of your collection. Especially, if you don look at it much. You will probably find that you don't really miss the stuff anyway. I've got a LOT of stuff I could get rid of and have no remourse at all.

Good idea but I did that last year when I sold 25,000 comics to a local dealer.  I couldn't bear to part with anything else.

Well ... maybe I could sell some of those CGC comics.  When I first caught the CGC bug I was buying and grading everything.  There's stuff that really don't fit my collection and I wouldn't mind selling.  But in my ideal world, I'd sell those comics when I retire and fund new purchases entirely with comic sales, the way @Ricksneatstuff does it. 

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1 hour ago, Robot Man said:

I wish I had time but I'm still a working stiff. Besides, if I were parting with what everybody here wants, I'd have LOTS of remourse.

I so get that!  Both the working stiff part, and the parting with part!

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Lady In White -- Additions

Here are additions to my Lady in White collection (@miraclemet).   To qualify for this set, the cover has to have a gothic feel to it, with a damsel in distress wearing a flowing white dress or gown.  The books have to be at least 9.0 (not for gold though, but I haven't found any gold yet that qualifies).  I'm thinking of easing up on the color requirement, as there are some covers that have that "gothic" feel with the damsel wearing a gown other than white.

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Here are the list of comics that qualify for the set, at least the ones I've found so far.   It's a short list, unfortunately.  If you know of others, please let me know!  I'm particularly interested in golden age comics.  The closest I've found is Venus #1, but I decided it doesn't qualify because she doesn't look in distress.

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Finding Places To Build Shelves

I'm always looking for places to add more shelves.  Here's a picture where I've built a shelf above a window (the window has a black-out shade to prevent sunlight from coming in).   This is Wall 4 in the map.

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The shelf is about 6 inches deep so it gives me room to store CGC books.  Next to the shelf, to the left, I've got a big shelf (Shelf 5 in the map) to store statues (so far only Gwen's there).

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Below is a narrow shelf I attached to the top of other shelves (specifically, Shelf 1A in the map).  I've got CGC books leaning against Star Trek and Star Wars large action figures that I store on top of Shelf 1A.  This narrow shelf is useful as I can store magazine size slabs there.  Below it is a cell from Kiki's Delivery Service.

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On the top shelf in Wall 1, I store DC Direct and other action figures.  I made the shelf extra deep so I have room to store comics in front of the toys.

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I also build shelves to display books in front of long boxes.  It just takes a piece of plywood, like this:

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Then you can put the plywood under long boxes.  You extend it out a few inches, and that forms a shelf to display books, like this (this is Wall 5 in the map).

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Matt Baker in Gusto He-Man

I collect Baker's work in non-comic magazines.  He appeared in men's magazines of the time.  They illustrated stories that were usually politically incorrect and sometimes chilling.  But they also were some of his best, most refined art.  He had one illustration in this issue of Gusto magazine from 1957.

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4 hours ago, n2wdw said:

Matt Baker in Gusto He-Man

I collect Baker's work in non-comic magazines.  He appeared in men's magazines of the time.  They illustrated stories that were usually politically incorrect and sometimes chilling.  But they also were some of his best, most refined art.  He had one illustration in this issue of Gusto magazine from 1957.

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Agree Matt Baker art on this men magazines its spectacular. have several issues myself. 

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That Gusto illustration/painting is incredible.  I love that Matt used the same props in a lot of his covers (that jug lower left).  I'm almost done with assembling the Manhunt stuff.  Looks like he didn't go more than 6 issues into that series.

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3 hours ago, Yorick said:

That Gusto illustration/painting is incredible.  I love that Matt used the same props in a lot of his covers (that jug lower left).  I'm almost done with assembling the Manhunt stuff.  Looks like he didn't go more than 6 issues into that series.

Manhunt is great for GGA, for Baker and others.  I'm still searching for most of the issues.  I think @kat123 has some.  Would love to see pictures of your Manhunts.

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1 hour ago, n2wdw said:

Manhunt is great for GGA, for Baker and others.  I'm still searching for most of the issues.  I think @kat123 has some.  Would love to see pictures of your Manhunts.

Looks like this is the only manhunt issue I have, but there several men magazines Matt Baker work on...

 

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5 hours ago, kat123 said:

Looks like this is the only manhunt issue I have, but there several men magazines Matt Baker work on...

 

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The UK edition cropped heavily into the illustration of that particular issue (maybe censorship since the dancing girl is half naked).  They are also strictly black and white (no color halftones).  I'll need to post a few photos!

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How I Organize My Comics

My project this weekend is to file away all the comics I've bought since the last time I filed my comics.  I do this once or twice a year.  This time I've got about 2 long boxes worth of raw comics to file.

For most of my collecting life, I stored my comics in one big alphabet.  This was a pain as my collection got bigger, because if I bought a lot of Batman comics (for example), I had to ripple comics all the way from the B boxes to the Z boxes.

I changed things about 10 years ago.  Now, for big titles, like Amazing Spider-Man, I store them in their own boxes (it takes 4 long boxes to store issues 1-700).   There are some publishers I collect, where I'm trying to get every issue they released (or up to some defined point).  They go in their own boxes.  For example, Valiant takes 2 and 1/2 long boxes (my Valiant collection stops when Acclaim gets involved).  I fill the other half of that third box with my Defiant collection (fitting, right?)

Some titles get stored in the same box.  For example, my Castle Waiting, Danger Girl, Gen 13, Meridian, Ruse and Sojourn comics go in a box together.  My Indiana Jones, James Bond and Greg Rucka comics go in another.  I try to group similar titles together, but sometimes it's just based on what fits together to make maximum use of boxes.

Here's a picture of Toys and CB2 from the map, with stuff displayed in front of the long boxes.

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This is what CB2 looks like once I move the prints and posters away. 

It's a pain to add comics to the boxes at the bottom.  What I try to do is put finished runs on the bottom, so I don't need to get to them. 

Today though I needed to get to the 2 She-Hulk boxes.  One's at the top (where a box is shared with Elfquest), but the other is 3 boxes down (where a box is shared with the original X-Men series).  So one was easy, the other not so much. 

But it's okay, because it's fun to shuffle through comic boxes.  It's like I'm reconnecting with my collection.  Also, I enjoy adding issues 38 and 39 between 37 and 40 in the box.  For some reason it really makes me feel good to do that.  And at that moment, I don't care if it's NM or VG or if it's restored or what the page quality is.  I'm just happy to have the comics in their proper place.  I guess it's the OCD in me.  Or maybe it's part of being a collector.  Thanks for reading.

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I really like looking at how other collectors organise their junque. A few questions.

Are you at all concerned about floor loadings? There would seem to be a lot of mass concentrated in some areas (obviously, I'm talking about the comics and books, not the toys).

Moving boxes to get at the "ones underneath" is a royal pain. Many years ago I installed shelving - strong, industrial type - that means I don't have to do that shuffling thing any more. Have you considered it? The right kind is very strong and the shelf thickness ain't that much. If Photosuckit co-operates, here's my example:

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