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16 hours ago, OrangeCrush said:

This was already answered by Shawnismaximus (much appreciated), but I want to include pictures so people on the forum can see what the boxes look like and exactly what the Box Sort Rails do. IMO, Box Sort Rails are easily the best invention made to date when it comes to organizing comics in comic boxes. 

 

Thanks. They do look very good. Do they hold the same amount as normal short/longboxes? I wish there was a way to order them individually, instead of in packs; that's fine for me for the normal boxes, but I would only need 1 CGC/Magazine box right now, not 4...

2 hours ago, Shawnismaximus said:

This is what he's talking about

Unfortunately for me, the shipping to send it to Canada costs almost as much as the boxes themselves! They seem great though. 

Thanks, I intend to look into these more once I have a moment. I'm likely going to be moving in the next couple of months, and the above-closet storage space I have now for my longboxes is going to be going away, so I'm in need of some kind of replacement.

33 minutes ago, letsgrumble said:

I've settled on keeping my books this way for well over a decade now. I'm a high-grade fiend so I want the best possible protection for my books. It's a one-time investment. I don't want to use tape or be replacing bags and boards in later life. They're reusable. Books look great too.

I have nearly all of my pre-1976 books in fullback-Mylite2-Archive sleeves. Post-1976 bronze and copper, I pick and choose, and do what I can.

Since I'm in Canada, I usually plan to buy product in bulk to save $$$ and arrange a pickup in the U.S. somewhere. 

Thanks! Good to know. Mainly I just need to price this out and see whether it's worth it yet, at least...especially balanced against the fact that most of my collection isn't of great value, grade or no (run filler or just random issues I've picked up over the years).

12 hours ago, OrangeCrush said:

So basically, Drawer Boxes with Box Sort Rails using BCW Comic Dividers and self adhesive label holders is the only way to go IMO. I will never use another storage method ever again. It makes your collection look incredibly clean, highly organized, and best of all you can access any comic or box you want without having to move anything. Personally, switching over to Drawer Boxes SIGNIFICANTLY increased my overall enjoyment of the hobby as its made accessing any of my comics super fast and easy and they really make your collection look really clean and organized. 

Do you have a link to drawer boxes with box sort rails? Curious what these are.

40 minutes ago, letsgrumble said:

I'll insert the book into the Mylite upside-down and then tuck it into the Mylar sleeve. Main reason is to avoid using tape. I hate tape on Mylar and even more so on my comics. Anytime I want to look at a book, I just slide it out.

Look ma, no tape:

Out of curiosity, do you do this with every book, or just keys/semi-keys/ones you want more particularly protected? I've been debating whether to move my stuff into a double-bagged/mylar system like this for a little added protection, but don't know if it's more for the ones I want to preserve more, or to try for all of them (which for me, is only around 2k books).

Y, The Last Man #16

Cool! I feel like I've seen this before, with books I had when I was a kid (no idea if I still have them, or if they were part of the purge I had to make when my childhood home was sold). Glad to learn it wouldn't affect grade. And grats on the 9.6!

I've been going through the Malazan Books of the Fallen for the first time (main series first, then maybe the side novels, maybe something in-between, haven't decided yet). Just about to finish #6, The Bonehunters.

I...am so anti-Facebook, I didn't even know there were Facebook auctions.

From the other side (not a dealer, but I buy a lot out of these boxes at cons because that's where a lot of my run needs have been), I don't really look for deals/seeded books, because I'm looking for specific titles; I just look for high grade versions of the non-key issues I need to fill my run (UXM and What If? v1, the latter of which I finished a few years back). I think I found a semi-key in one of these kinds of boxes once, the dealer claimed it was mis-filed (likely), and we settled on something in-between the box price and the sticker price. But if the issues I need are there in good condition, I may easily pick up 20-30+ books. For me, that means I prefer the $1 boxes and maybe trying to make a bulk deal over the $2-3 boxes with the same stuff, for obvious reasons (double-triple cost, heh). But I usually see a few other people always picking through these at the same time, usually also pulling out large stacks.

I don't know...for me, I like sifting $1 boxes for the run filler that has no real value to anyone but run collectors (which I know are rarer and rarer these days), and that's what I hope to see in them. From a higher-priced box ($3-5), I'd personally rather pull out reader copies of SA stuff. I mean, yeah, that 9.6+ copy of UXM 444 (or some other random issue) might technically book for like $8-10, but nobody's going to want that other than someone trying to fill a run...but I'd pay $5 for a beat-up 2.0-3.0ish copy of X-Men 31.

I don't know...just my perspective. Obviously, there are business constraints that have to dictate these box contents more than anything else, and I understand that. Even if I get sadder every NYCC when I see fewer and fewer $1 boxes and more and more $2/$3 boxes with the same things.

15 hours ago, ADAMANTIUM said:

Today is a good day! Glad to make this my own

 

Very nice! That looks good. This is probably going to end up being one of the last two X-Men books I get to finish my run, just because of cost; looking at the same grade range you are (I'll probably take a 7 or up).

Who did Uncanny X-Men during that awful manga-ish period? You know, when Angel was hooking up with Husk even though she was underage?

That artist.

1 hour ago, MGsimba77 said:

I wonder if that peanut butter jar still had moldering peanut butter inside would there be anyone willing to buy it? I'd think someone would be

Mint in jar!

2 hours ago, mattn792 said:

My first and (so far) only double cover in the collection.  It taught me a valuable lesson too - even if it looks like a 9.8 on the surface and you're going to have it signed by Claremont, still open the book up!  I had no idea this one was a double until it got to Florida and my facilitator found out about it.

Would you have had him sign both covers instead? 

1 hour ago, bc said:

Bulk unload.

Gotcha. Well, if someone here ends up buying it, let me know what these might cost me 

Are they just wanting to get rid of all of it in bulk, or piece any of it out? The X-Men watch(es) and the 1992 X-Men toy line summit paperwork look interesting to me though I don't know the value of either offhand, as those are the only X-Men things I saw in the pictures, but I wouldn't want to go near the entire thing (the wife would kill me).

Blast, only 208 (80%). Foiled by my lack of Power Pack knowledge...and some I just couldn't even figure out because of how they were drawn. Also, I kept seeing Silver Surfer's board as a cape, and it threw me off. I also couldn't remember some of the original GotG names for the life of me, even though I knew who they were...

22 hours ago, Artboy99 said:

I don't think they would have much value with the exception of someone looking to marry a missing centerfold to their book.

Geez, they'll allow anything to marry anything these days...

On 1/29/2018 at 11:58 PM, lizards2 said:

That's a bargain at half the price! 

I genuinely can't tell if this is saying that it's a bargain because it was half the normal price of $120, or that it would be a bargain at half of this price ($30)...

23 hours ago, rob_react said:

I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT IT!

Yes. 

They showed some footage at NYCC last October. It looked pretty good. But it wasn't that long of a clip (less than 10 minutes, mostly just the lead up to and start of a fight scene).

4 hours ago, BlowUpTheMoon said:

I was very interested in the X-Men #12 double cover, but at $330 it wasn't feasible.

Yeah, I didn't mean the price (I know I was vague, I just couldn't get the brain cells together that early to formulate what I was saying more clearly, heh). The price is a bit high, but it didn't look that bad that I can recall from the pics (outside, at least) for that condition, and especially given the condition of some of the other books. So yeah...I meant more not horrible (looking), than price. $330 seems a bit steep to me, even for a double cover, at that range.

On 1/27/2018 at 1:16 PM, BlowUpTheMoon said:

Inner cover was 5.0/5.5

Thanks! Not horrible at that grade.

Oh snap, the X-Men 12 is apparently a double cover, too. Shame I have no way to get up there from NYC. Or money. Hmm, not sure which of those is the bigger blocker...

I do check off a list, to try to avoid duplicates and to know where I need upgrades to complete my UXM run. But I try to still keep it to the "thrill of the hunt" and avoid feeling like it's just working a list by limiting myself to stores/cons and finding the issues for myself. I know I can hit the auction sites/ebay and quickly complete my run (well, assuming the $$$ to do so), but the fun is in finding the issue I need, in the grade range I want.

Welcome!