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When my Ex tried to start a business she went and picked up a stack of the priority boxes, which I just happened to find recently. These boxes are close to ten years old and I have used them to store household items as they fit nicely on the storage shelf. So now I wonder which one of us has broken the law, her for getting them and never using them, or me for discovering them years later and using them how I see fit...Sorry but this is all silly...I'll probably be arrested by the same people that will also get me for tearing off the old mattress tag...

Probably for the same two reasons that I still like her at 55. I bought her 5ft tall poster back in the late 70's/early 80's. I'll have to dig that up, I've got it stored with my Frazetta (I think) posters and all of my old Eerie, Creepy, Rook, and Vampirella magazines.

Thanks for the information Newshane, very interesting. The cedar I used was called rough sawn cedar and a funny thing, even though I thought it was beneficial for my books, I still laid mylites down as a liner so my unbagged comics did not touch the wood. I was a bit cautious about my books coming in contact with the wood back then too.

Like a few others here, I have had and still have a whole lot of books stored in Mylar - since the 1980's, and they look just like they did when I first put them in bags. I also have the bagged comics stored right along with the non-bagged ones in cedar boxes that I built in the 80's. I used cedar for my boxes back then because it was mentioned, I think in Overstreet, as the ideal storage box material for comics. I think at the time that acid free cardboard boxes were just coming into the comic market. Anyways I have not kept my boxes in ideal conditions until a couple of years ago. I had them sitting in my enclosed non-climate controlled front room for probably 15 years or so. The books do not appear to have suffered because of that, not that I can see anyways. Even the raw books look like they did when I bought them at my LCS 30+ years ago. My LCS owner back then told me not to use Mylar as it would damage the comics because they would get stuck to it he said. I told him that all the research I did was contrary to that. I went ahead and mail ordered a few sample Mylars including something called a Timelok I think, along with a couple of thousand mylites. I think the mylites were going for around a hundred bucks for a thousand of them at the time. I'll have to check and see what they are in today's market. Anyways the cheap mylites have been good all these years, they still look the same. As for the other types of bags that are not Mylar, any time I bought comics in those I would then use those bags to go on top of my boxes to keep the dust off as my boxes all have open tops.

When I eventually have some of my books slabbed, I'll just use cedar boxes like I already have, but I'll router out notches so that the slabs slide in and stay in place. But as I get older I think the next boxes I make will be shorter than the 36" lengths I made back 30 or so years ago. Darn things are a bit too heavy nowadays (after I scanned and tallied a bit of my Disney books I counted 425 in one cedar long box). Most books are protected by mylar but even those without - I do not see any difference after 35 years of touching cedar. So I do not think that slabs in cedar will do too bad, at least for me anyways.

It's a bummer they cannot digitize the pre-2002 issues. I guess I could always scan mine, but that will be after I get my comic collection scanned. As for the Buyer's Guide. I pretty much have every issue from 1984 until they ceased publication, maybe missing two or three issues. I just need to locate them all and get them organized as I have some in a spare room, the attic, and the garage..etc..

Wow, I knew you all would have the answers before I sat down for lunch - coolness. Anyways I had watched this on a FB site called "The Vintage News" and they are out of Alexandria VA if you want to check them out. I didn't dig any deeper into the video on their FB page but I would guess it came from Youtube.

Hey All, I was watching a vintage 1943 short film called Troop Train and when they showed the soldiers on the train, there were a couple of them reading comics. The first one was reading a Tarzan story and the second one a Disney comic. I just did a couple of screen shots and am curious if anyone here can id these two books.. I bet that these two books are of issues owned by a few people here.

Okay, that looks like a nice book and I had to blow up the picture to try an figure out why they would say the cover is married. The picture is not the sharpest to me, but it does appear that there are staple holes below each staple. So extra unused staple holes = married cover. I would imagine the only way to not have it detected is to be lucky enough with both the holes and original factory trim matching up.

So sorry to hear of your mother's passing.

I'll play again: $1,044.50 Thanks for doing this again, Dr. X

This thread is weird.. Or maybe this thread is normal and I am weird...

I also would not want to give up my collection for just one comic. There are just too many stories that I am going to revisit and to trade all of them for one comic is just unthinkable to me. Sure, my whole collection probably could not buy an AF15 or any other rarity, but to me it is worth more than any one comic.

In regards to model kit collecting, I used to build quite a few different plastic model kits in the late 60's and early 70's. Before I got a little older and got into WWII kits, I built model dinosaurs and some horror show models. Let's see if any of you remember these. The kits I am thinking of, are based on the classic movie monsters like Dracula, the Mummy, Frankenstein, etc. The Mummy and Dracula were in sarcophagus or coffins and they used rubberbands so that when you opened the coffin you would get one view and after closing it and opening it again it would show the reverse side of the character. So with the Mummy, he was a normal looking mummy and when you reopened his sarcophagus he was awake and ready to grab you! Same with Dracula, you opened the coffin first and he was sleeping, then when reopened he would have his eyes open and be ready to pounce., I think I had all of the kits for this horror show theme but as I am going from memories of over 45 years ago I am not sure. I do not know which model company made these. Ah, the childhood memories...

My current Avatar is from an Archie Comics pinup that my sister got me. She knew Dan DeCarlo a little bit and he was tickled when she told him that I named my daughter Veronica, so he signed the pinup page artwork to her and I. My forum name, which I also use for all but the metal detecting forums I go to, is from my main three things I collect, my three C's, Comics, Coins, and Cars. In trying to remember I think I collected comics first, then coins. Cars I did not get into until my adult life. Nowadays I don't know if I really qualify as a car collector as I do not have that many, just my 1969 Camaro, and I still have my dad's 1931 Ford sitting in the barn.

Time to "sale" my investment? Maybe he meant to say "time to sail" as anyone who pays that price will give him a reason to sail away with their money...

Yep, true here in Michigan for sure. As I posted on another thread here a while back. My dad had to pay the pawn shop what they paid the thief, to get his property back. But the cops/detective with my dad also got the name of the thief, who happened to be our formally trusted neighbor.

Thanks, Thanks a lot, now I only have two minutes left of my lunch hour because I was reading this and the other thread. Missing out on all of the other forums I usually read during this time... But it was worth it

So sorry to hear of this as it is horrible to lose your house and your comic collection and other items. I am glad that your family is okay, like others had mentioned, that is what counts. Hopefully you will find a new place soon and then start to rebuild your lives and eventually your collection. I guess the possibility of losing a comic collection through a disaster is something we all think about at one time or another. I may be more paranoid then some when it comes to a disaster happening as I always keep an electronic copy of my comics list with me just in case. I've figured that, with my list showing what I've had, if something happens that I could eventually rebuild my collection. Good Luck to you and your family, from one eggman to another. (I've raised chickens since '73 and have had some form of eggman as my various email addresses since forever ago)

I may have to look into this Instagram thing. Besides what is posted here, I know nothing about it except for its name.

I've been tempted, but I like reading the posts of others too much.

I've done a bit of searching and have read stories about people being in supposedly closed groups, only to have their posts still show up in their friend's news feeds, even though the friends were not part of the closed group. After coming back here and then seeing the reply by Terrapin above (thanks), I did some more searching and I think I have found it, under the privacy settings. It states "Who can see your future posts? You can manage the privacy of things you share by using the audience selector right where you post. This control remembers your selection so future posts from this tool will be shared with the same audience unless you change it." Okay, now if I am understanding this thing correctly, I can select any friends from my list that can see what I post and the rest cannot. It also sounds like I have to click on this setting every time I make a post, if I do not want all of my friends to see what I write. Now I've got to find where this tool is. Looking at the FB post reply window I did not see it. Maybe it only shows once I've typed something and am ready to post. I'll have to poke around and see.

Hi All, I am curious as to your thoughts on being involved and posting on public forums, like Facebook, where there is not much anonymity. I have 128 friends on my FB account, but I do not really care to share any of my hobbies with a majority of them. My fault I guess for accepting friend requests from old acquaintances, etc. When I do post here at the CGC site, I am reasonably sure that like-minded people (i.e. those that love comics) are the ones that read and share their opinions. On FB, out of everyone in my friend’s list, only my sister is into comics. I would really like to be involved and post comments more often on the various comic book groups that I belong to, but the idea that whatever I post will show up in the feed of all on my friends list just scares me. A few of my friends know I like comics and that is cool, but there are a few of my other “friends” that I do not wish to share comics or any of my hobbies with. I mean I am okay speaking with them about other subjects; we just do not talk about comics. I guess my mindset is maybe stuck in the 70’s where anyone beyond grade school was looked down upon if they liked comics…I need to get rid of this way of thinking. Also when I was a kid my grandmother told me the story once of how a friend of hers had a nice coin collection (this was back in the 30’s) and he used to like to show it to everyone, that is until he was robbed. The lesson I learned from that is to not brag about what you have or you may lose it. I guess that I am not really concerned about my friends, but maybe the public at large that can also see the various pages/groups. So, I am thinking of the different options I have. I can: 1) Say the heck with it, just start posting away on the various groups and not care what shows up in other’s pages. 2) Pare down my friends list and get rid of all but a handful of them. I mean really, why have so many on the list? 3) Create a new FB account that I would dedicate to my comics hobby, while keeping my main FB account for other non-comics activities.... Nah, I don’t like this option. 4) Maybe figure out if FB has an option so certain people in my friend’s list do not see my posts – see if it is possible to not have my posts show up in their news feeds. I am kind of leaning toward the “1) just start posting anyways” option. Maybe my non-comics friends will get so tired of seeing my comics related posts that they will turn off their notifications of my “news”. I’ve done the “stay friends, but hide their posts” option a couple of times myself. I mean, how many times do I need to see what someone is having for dinner? I’m just wondering how the rest of you handle social media.

Thanks for posting again Senormac. Alan had (or still has?) a good outlook on life - hate no one, and enjoy life and your job, even if it doesn't pay what you wish it would. That is what I got from reading this article about him. I view life along the same lines. I had a professor 30 years ago that once said "Life is too short to hate someone" and that kind of stuck with me. I am not giving up my time by wasting it on hate or anger. It is too bad that Alan is still not a part of the comic society today, at least as far as I know.

Please do. I like reading about the history of our hobby. Thanks for posting this. I didn't discover the Comics Buyers Guide until 1984 and I think I have almost every issue from then until it ceased publication. I'd just wish that I had known about it in the 70's. Prior to the CBG the only way I knew of to get back issues back then was through ads in Overstreet.