ADAMANTIUM Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, batman_fan said: Light Scatter by sub micron particles on patterned semiconductor surfaces. Sweet thesis! Congrats Dr. @batman_fan batman_fan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Back on track, I'm with the short box idea, I have 6-7 full of slabs that are growing, and I limit myself to 2 shorts of raws... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 2 minutes ago, ADAMANTIUM said: Back on track, I'm with the short box idea, I have 6-7 full of slabs that are growing, and I limit myself to 2 shorts of raws... I am jealous, having a manageable collection like the is pretty attractive. ADAMANTIUM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ADAMANTIUM Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 4 minutes ago, batman_fan said: I am jealous, having a manageable collection like the is pretty attractive. Ya, but that means I slab things that dont necessarily need to be When my modern sub comes tomorrow feel free to laugh WITH me ha! Bronze 30 cent variants that come back 6.5 or modern Newsstand that are 5.5 etc Some are just tokens of $1 box finds, when the thrill of the hunt was on, but I'm still proud of them! mec3437 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Just now, ADAMANTIUM said: Ya, but that means I slab things that dont necessarily need to be When my modern sub comes tomorrow feel free to laugh WITH me ha! Bronze 30 cent variants that come back 6.5 or modern Newsstand that are 5.5 etc Some are just tokens of $1 box finds, when the thrill of the hunt was on, but I'm still proud of them! Ultimately that is what collecting is all about. Picking up stuff you like. The books in your sig line are pretty awesome looking ! badback83, ADAMANTIUM and Larryw7 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatCaesarsGhost Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 32 minutes ago, batman_fan said: Light Scatter by sub micron particles on patterned semiconductor surfaces. Mic drop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 1 minute ago, ISureAm said: A 1,000 comic collection is way too small for someone who reads them and gets new books every week. Depending on how many titles you buy per week, it can add up quick. That is how I ended up with over 10,000 comics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCOComics Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 I had a collection of 6 large boxes and a handful of short boxes. Lots of full runs of 80s and 90s marvel and a few boxes of keys. In 2012 my wife and I had our first son and owned a very small house in the greater Boston area. I ended up selling everything except the keys and thought my collecting days were over. Shortly after I started having withdrawls. There were a few runs I missed, but I mostly missed collecting. But my tastes had changed. I got really into GA WWII, then transitioned into PCH, mystery / SyFy... anything LB Cole. Then the coolest thing happened. My 5 year old (now 7 year old) son fell in love with comics. He of course loves the superheroes so now I'm collecting primarily silver age heros. So to answer your question, the right size collection has changed for me allot as my priorities in life have changed. At 22 my goal was to have every comic silver surfer or punisher ever appeared in. At 30 I had less than 40 comics and at 37 my son and I collect with wreckless abandon, no real plan and rotate through 2 small boxes and probably 30 to 40 slabbed books. batman_fan, Skunkboy, FineCollector and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidTheDavid Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 I have 9 short boxes, not full, in a closet. My goal is not to exceed that. I’ve cracked most of my slabbed books and have only one box of comics still in slabs. Defining my collecting focus was an expensive and wasteful process, and now I have a much better sense of what really intrigues me. I ask myself a few questions when I have the impulse to buy something: would I rather spend the same money on a different comic if it were in front of me? does this help me complete the few runs I’m pursuing? does this fit my collecting focus on specific artists or writers? Just pausing to ask those questions helps me avoid impulse buys. batman_fan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatCaesarsGhost Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 28 minutes ago, DavidTheDavid said: Defining my collecting focus was an expensive and wasteful process Brother, me too. Even now my collecting focus continues to evolve, unabated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dupont2005 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 All my comics are at my moms house now. It really kills my desire to collect. Gonna work on getting the collection into the hall closet here this year hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou_fine Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 11 hours ago, Jaylam said: Keep what you want and like and burn the rest in a 55 gallon drum. (Actually my neighbors did this when I was a little kid according to my brother. They filled a 55 gallon drum with baseball cards and comic books and told the neighbor kids to come take what they wanted and then they burned what was left. This was about 1964. I think my brother got a few good baseball cards out of that stash, he was a big Mickey Mantle fan back then.) Well, it that little bonfire was burning way back in 1964, my thinking is that there's most probably some baseball cards and comic books in that drum that would have been worth a bit of money nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larryw7 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 8 hours ago, batman_fan said: I don't think I have crossed that boundary yet. Dibs on the Aurora models. Robot Man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 I have things neatly organized but I am looking and thinking that between a couple of different hobbies, I have way too much. When I get home I have to post a pic of the Lego storage room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo_7071 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 (edited) I used to own roughly half a dozen long boxes full of comics (mostly Bronze and Copper DCs and Marvels), and that was way too many comics for me. I sold most of those books to a comic shop for ten cents apiece back in the early 90s. (If only I could have foreseen eBay and slabbing . . ..) I have no interest in building runs, so for me two or three short boxes-worth of comics would be plenty. I saw a mouse in my house the other day, and that scared me into deciding to slab even my low-dollar value books (with the exception of truly worthless reading copies), so the small number of books that I have will soon be taking up more space than they used to. (I really wish the new slabs weren't so thick.) Edited January 2, 2020 by jimbo_7071 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theCapraAegagrus Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 22 hours ago, cmixer said: So my family is considering a home-move, and it got me thinking ... even if I love all my books, and take time to organize them, is there a point when it is all "too much volume"? I'm thinking of loosing (selling) half of it during the move, so that the whole collection fits in a walk-in closet. So the question is: Even if the collection brings you joy, is there "too much of a good thing"? Moderation is your friend. You can eat "too much" food, have "too much" sex, and definitely own "too many" comics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Fugit Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 2 ever-changing shorties is perfect for me. The other 7 longs and 15 shorties are all inventory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spidey 62 Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 16 hours ago, batman_fan said: I don't think I have crossed that boundary yet. Is that a case of preserves on the floor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehumantorch Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 11 minutes ago, Spidey 62 said: Is that a case of preserves on the floor? That's to keep his collection well preserved.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batman_fan Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 17 minutes ago, Spidey 62 said: Is that a case of preserves on the floor? It is tequila I made. Each jar is a slice of the alcohol through the distillation process. It was made legally. I had a DSP at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
