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The Nook To give some background, my house is at the beach. Like most beach houses, the 1st floor is off the ground. Our house is about 4 feet off the ground. That floor is what I'm calling "Downstairs" in the map. We have a ground level shed and an outdoor shower. "Upstairs" is built on top of the shed and it's about 4 feet higher than Downstairs -- that's why I need a ladder to get up. The "Nook" is on top of the shower and it's about a half step lower than Upstairs -- that's why I show a dotted line in the map. Here's the Nook looking at it from Upstairs. Next to the opening is a rendition of Mary Marvel by Rudy Nebres. I got it years ago from Rudy himself, at a SDCC I think. Also here's my copy of the first appearance of the original Miss Marvel. I'm at work now so tonight I'll give you a tour of the Nook.

Okay! Here's a teaser to the part of the comic room where I keep the really good stuff: Also, something I love (almost) as much as comics is food and drink. So please indulge me as I post food pics sometimes. Here's the jalapeno margarita and enchiladas I got for lunch with the wife this weekend.

Recent pickups: Also I just go this back from CGC. This is one of my favorite Betty & Veronica covers.

I was searching on eBay for this book and found a variant cover. This must be the PG version.

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Happy to be in such good company!

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So happy! Just won this on eBay, and so dastardly!

I'll take via PM: Rangers #31 - VG- $100 & Rangers #37 - FN $175

CB2 and Toys Upstairs in the CBR, I've marked "Toys" and "CB2" in the map. CB stands for long comic boxes. To get upstairs, you go up this ladder. When you get upstairs, right in front of you are Toys and the left side of CB2. Toys is what I call a stack of mostly oversized Star Wars action figures and playsets and the DC Direct Super Friends set. The Star Wars toys are from the Power of the Force set, although in this area I also have a Rebel Fleet Transport and AT-AT from the original movies. Here's a better view of Toys with the JSC Alice poster moved aside. To the right of Toys are comic long boxes. One of my collecting goals is to get every pre-Acclaim Valiant comic. I'm almost there (just missing a few gold issues), and I keep them in the Valiant 1, 2 and 3 boxes. Also in this picture, you can see I've hung action figures on the ceiling -- I display my Star Wars and Star Trek action figure collection on the ceiling. On top of these long boxes, I store treasury size comics, graphic novels and my collection of Serpieri books In my old comic room, where I had over twice the space, I just to store treasuries in treasury-size boxes and graphic novels and other books on bookshelves. But in this smaller room I don't have space for those storage options; I can make better use of space by stacking on top of long boxes. In fact, I layout the long boxes so they sort of form shelves. To the right (this is still on top of CB2) I've got my small collection of Lego mini-figs. In this picture you'll also see my record player and a signed photo of Emma Watson. Thanks for reading!

Very nice, this is now on my want list!

Clearly she doesn't want to marry this creep

Something bad's about to happen here ....

Thanks R-Man, I'm happy to be here! You're right, my wife doesn't often go into the comic room, but it's not because of all the girly stuff. I don't play golf, gamble, etc., so she's okay with comics being my vice. This is true even with this in the room: This is, of course, Alice by J. Scott Campbell. Referring to the map, it's leaning against CB2 (CB stands for comic long boxes). The poster is actually a blow up on foam backing I got from Shutterfly of this Campbell print: I've always thought that Campbell's work (and other modern GGA artists, like Dave Stevens) resembles LB Cole. Probably my favorite Cole cover is Popular Teenagers 5.

I've always thought secret hideouts are cool. Like the Fortress of Solitude and the Batcave, but also the junkyard hideout of the Three Investigators that I read as a kid. That's what I've tried to create with my comic room. It holds my collection but it's also my secret hideout. This thread is about my comic room. I'll give you a tour and tell you all its secrets (well, most of them). Even though my collection spans all ages and includes action figures and statues, I've taken the liberty of posting this in the Gold section since I mostly collect gold nowadays. A little information about me. I'm 55, married for 25 years, 4 kids ages 22, 20, 18 and 16 (by the end of the summer). Three of my kids are in college. I've been collecting as long as I can remember. My favorite comic is Spider-Man, followed closely by Cerebus and Strangers in Paradise. I started collecting as a completest, and I've completed most of the Marvel silver age titles and have long runs of many DC silver titles. Now though, I'm no longer a completest. Instead I primarily collect keys and good girl art. One of my main collecting pursuits at the moment is to get a copy of every comic with a cover by Matt Baker. My wife and I plan to retire in about 6-10 years. We have a little beach cottage and we'll spend our golden years there. When we're not there we hope to travel. A couple years ago we did an addition to the house, and that includes my comic room. Something I love are comics that show maps of hideouts. So here's a map of my comic room. I've labeled everything so when I post pictures you'll be able to see where things are in the room. If you're standing in the hallway and looking into the comic room, this is what you see with the door open: On the right is a shelf I've labeled Mylar in the map. That's where I keep collecting supplies. Here's a picture of the side of the Mylar shelf; I use it to display Miss America 2 (the 1st appearance of Patsy Walker) and Tomb Raider action figures, as well as con badges. This is the front of the Mylar shelf. There's a bin for the different sizes of Mylar. Attached to it are some of my comics, including FF #1 signed by Stan. On the back of the door I've mounted Betty's Bath by Dave Stevens (s/n 200 of 395) and Sitting Pretty by Jennifer Janesko (s/n 10 of 250). I've bolted the frames to the door so they don't move when the door is opened and closed. Thanks for reading!

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I think you make a good point. Bakers aren't like ASM 300 or IH 181, where the market value is pretty stable, so you have a pretty good idea if any given sale is below or above market. With Bakers it very much depends on who happens to be shopping at the time of any given auction. It goes both ways -- sometimes prices are astronomical, other times you can get a deal. For example, just a couple weeks ago I won Midget Comics 1 on eBay for 8 bucks. (BTW, this is a cool comic. I've posted it below in a silver age mylar -- you can see it's the size of a digest). I keep track of all my Baker purchases. So, my max bids and offers are based on what I have spent before. So if on a given day my data says I should offer $500, yet someone else is willing to pay $750, then I let it go. This helps me to take the emotion out of comic buying, and not over-pay by not competing with someone who really wants the comic and is willing to pay anything. I'm not always successful. For example, I probably paid too much for my GCE 12 because, in that instance, I was the bidder who really wanted the comic and was willing to pay (pretty much) anything. I don't regret buying it though. Sometimes I have buyer's remorse but it always goes away. In fact, in my entire 40+ years of collecting, the only comic buys I regret are the ones I didn't make.

As a collector -- I rarely sell -- I certainly don't like to pay higher than I have to. Like everyone, I win some and lose some. But I don't agree with your original premise that someone is artificially jacking up prices. Say my max bid for a Baker is $500, and I get out bid by someone for $750. Then say that person comes to these boards (or C-Link, C-Connect, whatever) and flips it for $1000. Well, then that means the market value of that book is $1000 (or at least closer to his bid of $750 instead of my bid of $500). I don't think the winning bidder has done anything inappropriate. Sure, I wish I could have bought the book for $500. But if the true market value of the book is $1000, and the other buyer knew it, then he deserved to win and I deserved to lose. There's nothing wrong with that IMHO. Now, let's say the true market value of that book is really $500. Well then, that means the winning buyer is going to lose his shirt when he tries to resell. And honestly in the long run I don't care that I lost the auction. If I'm right and the true market value is $500, then eventually I'll get my copy.

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I have 2 comic spinner racks in my comic room. They're not vintage. I bought them new a few years ago. I think the company went out of business though as I Googled them last year but couldn't find them. Here's one of the racks. It's not the best picture but you can kinda see I keep my Sin City collection there, as well as Tomine's Optic Nerve (which is the best "slice-of-life" series IMHO). I hang action figures on the racks, including this Gwen Stacy. I got John Romita to sign it years ago at a MegaCon. Here's the 2nd spinner. In this rack I have the complete Strangers in Paradise series, along with Astro City, Marvels, Planetary and Miller's DD run. I have a third comic rack, but it's not a spinner. It's the kind you attach to a wall. I like it because the bins are wider so I can store Silver Age books there. Here are a couple of pictures. Thanks for reading.

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