Storing My Matt Baker Collection
As I mentioned in my first post, my main collecting project right now is to get a copy of every comic with a cover by Matt Baker. By my count there are 293 Baker comics. Currently I have 133 of them, so I still have a long way to go. Here are a few from my collection.
Most of my Bakers are raw (88 are raw and 45 graded). I store the raw Bakers on shelves in a small alcove in my comic room. Like most beach houses, we have a shower you access from the outside (so you can wash off when you come off the beach). The alcove is above the shower so that's why it's kind of small. Anyway, I built shelves in the alcove to store comics. You might wonder about moisture getting into the alcove but that's not a concern because the shower below is well ventilated.
The shelves though are narrow. Here's a picture to show scale. They are about the size of a Pop figure box turned on its side.
I used to store the raw Bakers in 4 rows on one of the shelves -- see the picture below. You can see I was running out of room.
So recently I built more shelves in the alcove -- see below. In this picture the raw Bakers are still stored in the narrow shelves, on the left. I built the shelves so below there's room for 2 CGC-sized boxes.
The new shelves are much deeper. Below is a picture of the Pop figure to show scale.
Now I store the raw Bakers in 2 rows on one of the new shelves. Even though I have them in 2 rows (rather than 4), the bigger shelves give me room for expansion.
This next picture provides a better view of the alcove and the new shelves. I'm always trying to figure out ways to display comics. Here I'm displaying some of my favorite Bakers, his romantic covers with minimal writing on the cover. Thanks for reading.
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