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The Madness of not being able to find that one comic you know you have
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I have a 9.8/white Savage Sword of Conan 1 somewhere. It came as part of a collection buy and was the only slab, so I had to put it somewhere. I put it somewhere alright. Mrs. Donut and I are looking to move/downsize in about ten years. I figure I'll find it then.

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3 hours ago, Ares said:

This is driving me nuts.  I have been going through my collection in order to get it in order to see them. 

(I have books that no longer fit in my collection) 

There is one book I know I have (Eternals number 1) but I cant find it anywhere.

On the other hand while looking for that book I found others that I did not think I had anymore. 

 

Has this ever happened to anymore else?

 

This happens to me pretty much every single time I go to find one specific comic.  Usually I end up buying another on ebay if I want to read it or something.

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I have this one. Is it a horror book? Is it a crime book? Is it misc GA?

I have boxes of major publishers and genres. It is usually in wither one or the other. This one though often gets misplaced. I guess I could have a box for Canada or foreign books but just don't have enough of them.

I have a rather large collection. Many, including my wife and friends consider too big. But you guys get it. In spite of this, I am VERY well organized.

This one might be cursed. I've thought about selling it but I really like it. Guess that is the burdon I will have to bear.

Oh, I just went to get the photo and had to look in 3 categories for it...:roflmao:

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A few items unfortunately...many moves :blush: After selling almost all of my original collection before college YEARS ago...I had retained a few things...Complete Foom collection w/ 2 unused kits...my signed early con programs and an original Conan Daily. I've seen those in the last 10 years. But in dipping my toes back in a few times over the years, I bought a ASM 300 off the rack...Haven't seen that FOREVER....it's somewhere stupid I'm sure. great thread.

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Oh man; don't even get me started.  For the last 5 years I've held annual Halloween Sales here on the forums.  In that process; I've found books I didn't know I had.  Books I can't find based on my records and then stuff in other boxes accounted for incorrectly.  I would say I'm about 85% really organized but that 15% is a real monkey wrench..

Not to mention; I think there were books in the past I sold that I never updated my records for so I thought I still had them.  It really runs the gamut :insane: 

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Can't find a particuliar comic? How about can't find an entire run. At one time I had the complete run of Defenders. I have no recallection of selling them all. I know I sold a few like #1, #10 and a few other early issues, but when issue #28 started climbing, I went looking for it. Couldn't find any issues and didn't see any large gaps in my boxes. very frustrating.

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2 hours ago, Robot Man said:

I have this one. Is it a horror book? Is it a crime book? Is it misc GA?

I have boxes of major publishers and genres. It is usually in wither one or the other. This one though often gets misplaced. I guess I could have a box for Canada or foreign books but just don't have enough of them.

I have a rather large collection. Many, including my wife and friends consider too big. But you guys get it. In spite of this, I am VERY well organized.

This one might be cursed. I've thought about selling it but I really like it. Guess that is the burdon I will have to bear.

Oh, I just went to get the photo and had to look in 3 categories for it...:roflmao:

comluckycoyne.jpg

Six Pence :cloud9:

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I'm extremely disorganised.

Other than looking at my box of favourite slabs recently and picking stories to read from my shelves of reprint collections, I haven't had a good search through in years.  I'm sure there'll be many pleasant surprises that I've forgotten about whenever I do end up seeing what's in there again, and also many embarrassing misjudgements which must've seemed like good ideas at the time, especially back in the 90s.

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My collection was in total order about 5 or 6 years ago, I could pick any book withing minutes from my cabinets, but there came a time when I had to have some work done in my main room, so I boxed up a lot of them and relocated elsewhere until the work was complete.

I just havent got around to putting everything back together again and have bought a lot more since then all of which is in a random mess and seems like such a daunting task now.

I looked for books to scan a few weeks ago and after a few hours didnt even find the right comic company :( 

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8 hours ago, Ares said:

This is driving me nuts.  I have been going through my collection in order to get it in order to see them. 

(I have books that no longer fit in my collection) 

There is one book I know I have (Eternals number 1) but I cant find it anywhere.

On the other hand while looking for that book I found others that I did not think I had anymore. 

 

Has this ever happened to anymore else?

 

Perhaps you traded your Eternals 1 for the book you didn't think you had anymore! (thumbsu

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9 hours ago, Artboy99 said:

often. Generally it is a sign that I have too many books and I need to sell.

I have 2 magazines that I recently found going through some boxes 2 weeks ago. I set them aside knowing i wanted to bag and board them. Yesterday I grabbed magazine bags and boards for them and I cant find the magazines. I cant remember where i put them. Clearly it would be somewhere convenient as i knew i was going to bag and board them, but i cant find them. :(

FOUND THEM!

That was driving me crazy. I have a shelf at my desk above my computers with some comic related books on it. I had shoved the 2 magazines amongst those books. I guess when I did it I assumed I would remember. :P

Turns out the magazines needed treasury sized bags and boards too.

 

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A book I have had since ~1977 - Thor 177 - and I know I still have as it is in every version of my printed (1970s, 80s, & 90s) and on line collection (initially put together in 2014 when I was re-bagging and boarding at the same time). So it has to be there but somehow when I was imaging all my books-- I could not find it.

Now -- it has to be there somewhere-- iI have notes on it and even gave it a grade. I either misplaced it into some other box or some other crazy thing happened. It is the kind of thing that can drive you crazy. I refuse to just sort through my whole collection-- though it is nothing crazy big like some of the folks here (about 1950 books). But anytime I see that hole in my image file where it goes from 176 to 178 -- I get a little more upset. Stay tuned to when it boils over into some collection wide search.

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Lately I've looked for a few books that recently "popped" that I was pretty sure were in my sale stock, only to not find them. I have to assume I sold them on the cheap a while back, because literally no one other than my wife and I have been inthe house since last March. I probably threw them in a lot deal back when I was selling locally. It happens.

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