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The time flies. Yesterday was my 7 year anniversary (she made me pack up the comics when we were engaged) and my youngest just turned 1 last month.

Everything you are saying is ringing 100% true right now. When I bought the comics it came with about 1000 poly bags and boards (the horror ) which i'm using up just because i couldn't waste them. I started to preassembled them prior to putting comic in but they do start to curl very slightly. Besides the curling it works out nice because I can preassemble anywhere/anytime.

I ordered another 1000 Mylites 2 and half backs from E Gerber and that will be for my stuff.  

5 minutes ago, FN-2199 said:

Put them all in Mylar before you have a baby.

This is the easiest way.  

I wish I read this back in 2009-2010... I'm on my return tour, back after three little ones.  All the comics I'm bagging/boarding went away right before I got married.  

This one is for the people who do a lot of bagging and boarding.

I have been making my way through bagging/boarding/sorting/cataloging about 6000 comics. I only do it at for about a little bit a night and I’m trying to figure out the most efficient way get through it. If I can optimize the process and I can save a little time on each comic then it should add up. I want to be a well-oiled bagging and boarding machine. Before I go get the stop watch out and start process optimization, I figured that I would reach out to the pros for some pointers.

I figure that there are 3 potential methods (assume 1000 comics):

1.       Assembly Line: Put together 1000 bags and boards, Then put the 1000 comic in each one, then come back and tape each one.

2.       One at a Time: Board in bag, comic, tape, file away.

3.       Combo: Put together 1000 bags and boards, comic then tape, comic then tape, (repeat)

If anyone has any special bagging and boarding station set ups, special tape dispensers, diet and training regimen… I’m open to anything.  

I spent too much time writing this… I have to get back to bagging and boarding.

It looks like some of the cells are shifted. This is what is looks like on a phone. The "0" might get cut off on some screens

I was looking at the Hulk 182 they have posted on ebay as "9.2 NM- condition, has off-white to white pages and is unrestored." But I'm pretty sure it's trimmed (or at least it appears that way to me). So I'm a little leery. 

I don't really have a good eye for restoration of any type so when I see something I always have to think, what else am I missing. 

Yes, only the black wolverine ones, 89 of them to be exact. So don't be shy if you want one (or 5 or 20 or 80).

I bought about 20 long boxes of wolverine back issues a while back. Just so happens that shortly after I bought them life changed a bit and they went into "storage" at my moms house in my old bedroom. Just recently I got the comic bug again and went and grabbed all my comics and I'm going through them. These Battlebooks were in one of those long boxes that I never went through. 

Thanks for all the info. Looks like i'll bag and board them up and file them away. Maybe even send one of the nicer ones off to get graded.

I've never sold a comic (i'm more of a comic hoarder), but I'd hate to have all these books that don't mean much to me if there are people who having a hard time finding them. At least now if someone is looking for them they will find this thread and can PM me. 

I was going through I bunch of long boxes I bought about 10 years ago and I came across a horde of Wolverine Battlebooks. I've never seen one so did a little searching around and it looks like a few people are hunting them down from time to time but not very often. I think a previous thread from a few years back called them an "oddity". It appears that they are a game of sorts that you play in comic book format.  

So my question is, does anyone know anything about these books? Should I keep these around or should they go into my 90's drek box? I must have 50 of these things.  

25 minutes ago, ygogolak said:

The off-center foil placement makes it undesirable to me. Amazing someone is willing to pay nearly $2k for it.

I'm with you 100% on this. The no foil bone claw variant is more desirable in my book.  

They updated the information on the auction to say "Let there be no confusion. this is not the white bone copy, but a ONE OF A KIND DOUBLE IMAGE FOIL AND WHITE CLAWS COVERING WOLVERINE'S RIGHT EYE ON THE COVER!"

I think its exactly as rogue mentioned, a shifting on the foil and not the "Bone Claw Error Variant"

I think its a cool book, just not $1800+ cool, for me. 

I think you dodged a bullet. It will be interesting to see what it goes for next time around. 

I put it on my watch list thinking that I might attempt a last second snipe but by the end of the first day it was more than I was willing to pay. Back to my non-defect wolverine collecting...

I've been watching that auction. I cant wait to see what it goes for. Only about 3 hours left. 

Hello World,

I'm more of a returning member but its been so long that when I recovered my password, my profile said that joined in August. I placed my my first comic in the CGC Collectors Society Registry around 2008-2009, Wolverine (1988) issue 1.  Back then worldsbest sill didn't have a complete run and my small collection was ranked 7. Since then those guys on the wolverine 1988 set have put in some serious work. I ran off and got married and had 3 kids all the while neglecting my comics... But now I'm back.  I know it will be a very long haul to finish up my set but i'm going to give it the old college try.