Reno McCoy

New Solomon Kane trailer: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/solomonkane/

Scrooge, congratulations. I didn't even know your wife was pregnant. Congratulations on the ever-expanding family. Enjoy the sleep when you can get it.

Dude, that's totally uncalled for.

Wow, the colors really seem to pop on that one!

After reading about 10 pages of this thread, I've: 1) Marveled at the amazing comics displayed here. 2) Gotten jealous. 3) Decided that I need to buy more GA. 4) Searched online for prices. 5) Decided that I need to raise my comic buying budget. 6) Decided to quit buying comics all together because I'll never have as many cool comics as you guys. 7) Marveled at more of the amazing comics displayed here. 8) Gotten jealous. 9) Decided that I need to buy more GA. 10) Etc...

I've just started rebagging all of my books, and I've been using two sheets of MCP so far. Now that I read this thread, however, I'm likely to go back and add 1-3 sheets for everything. At first I thought I'd want to do this with only the more expensive books, but I have to do everything the same way with all of my books. Not sure I need the gloves, though. I love the idea, but...oh, who am I kidding. I'm buying some.

Man, do I know how to kill a thread or what?

For those who use 2, 3, or 5 pieces of microchamber paper, what's your monetary or age cut-off for each method?

Yea... I am that guy... This is what i posted that day.... Hey man.... nice to hear of one similar to myself.... Dont know if you saw some of my posts in the deslabbing thread? Interesting info. I've never heard of using 5 sheets of microchamber paper though. Why 5? Good question.... When I did the initial research into this area of storage I followed threads here closely and learned a lot. On my own though I decided to go directly to the source when purchasing my microchamber paper and see if I could pick the brains of the people at CRI. I was hoping that the salesperson could connect me with someone who knew the molecular trap business inside and out….. Sure enough they were able to! Anyway the acid byproduct that the newsprint creates migrates….. when CGC puts sheets of microchamber paper between both covers it does protect the covers from acid migration and in so doing discoloration. It also protects a good quantity of the paper near the covers… I asked the guy at CRI if this was suffiecnt in his view? He said that in order to ultimately protect all the paper to the ravages of time and itself you would need to interleave this paper between all pages similar to what archivist’s do with very important documents. But he agreed with me that this wasn’t really possible with comic book collections because of cost and time. The pages most at risk of damage are the ones furthest from the microchamber paper, so I asked him what he thought a good compromise would be? He said maybe every 10 to 15 pages or so should be enough in his opinion to adequately protect all the pages of my books. So I told him my idea…. One sheet behind both covers…. One right in the middle of the book, and one sheet in the average middle of that….. that creates this…… He said yea, that could work…… I also in cutting the sheets down have leftover scraps.. these go into the bottoms and sides of my comic boxes and enclosures…. The paper doesn’t have to touch stuff to be effective…. It handles off gassing from all kinds of pollutants so I don’t waste the scraps that come out of the process of cutting sheets to fit books…. Any nasty compounds in the air around my precious books have to tackle the high volume of microchamber paper that exists in my comic boxes and enclosures… I’m anal I know, its what I do….. And of course I cant afford to do this with all my books…. Just my valuable books, bronze age and older stuff….. I also keep a spreadsheet of my collection and highlight with a color all books that have been given the microchamber treatment…. Depending on the year it gets a different color. This way I can be sure what year any given book has been microchambered…. This project is ongoing, when I am bored or have a moment to myself and no family around I throw some music on, pull out my cutter, put on my white archivist gloves, get my Overstreet page quality card(OWL), and my microchamber paper and go to work. Any excuse to pull my books out of their EGerber mylar and full backs is a good enough excuse for me. While I am there my database is updated with page quality info and microchamber notification. Why do I spend so much time keeping this data? That way in the future when I go back and change microchmaber paper to new sheets in like 10 or 15 years cuz I am bored.... I will know if there has been a change in page quality.... About 60 % of my old books have been “microchamberd” in the past 3 years. When I get done maybe I will do the moderns or I will find some other anal thing to do…. My wife says I should have been a archivist because I love the science of this.... I would love to do this or work on objects in a museum... Did you know there is a microchamber emulsion that can be painted on enclosures? but alas I am a graphic designer.... One day I plan on putting a blog post on my site on the two different storage plans I use to protect my books…. If the five sheets of microchamber paper is storage plan one, what's the other plan like?

Do you really need to change microchamber paper frequently? I just put some in the my books, and would regret doing so if it means that I need to change it out once a decade.

+1 As a bonus, you can color-code your books. Red means you need to upgrade, perhaps, or color-code by era.

I just finalized my ordering of bags, boards, boxes, and microchamber paper. It came to just under $300. Considering that most if not all of my moderns are already in the bags/boards that they'll stay in forever, I got just enough additional items to bag all of my books, plus leftovers for maybe a year's worth of purchases.

Protecting your comics is an expensive thing to do. I ordered some bags and boards and boxes, and they cost me more than the value of half my comics combined.

What boxes do I need to fit magazine archives? I've only got a few, but they don't fit in my regular magazine boxes. (I'm assuming the same would be true for magazine mylites2).

My LCS had about 12 of these, and I only found the three variants. I'm a comic book, mint condition, and first issue.

On comiccollectorlive, are the images you see from a particular store the actual copy they have on hand, or is that just a representative example?

Reynold Jay sold a CGC 9.6 recently for a very nice price. I just haven't been looking in a little while. I know someone that has a nice #9 set aside for you. If he turns his #9 upside down, can we consider it a #6?

Ditto. Now I'm thinking of selling...

No, I don't know what you mean. Please, tell us what you're suggesting. Remember this scene? If Gary and Wyatt could do it with a computer from 1985, then surely Thanos with the Infinity Gauntlet could do it! I totally forgot Tony Stark was in that movie.

No, I don't know what you mean. Please, tell us what you're suggesting.

From reading that wiki article that seems to be what later writers were trying to "fix." Omnipotence is always difficult to work into a story... there always has to be some kind of flaw. I thought they did it well with Thanos in IG... I suppose they tried with the Beyonder by making him just not understand what life was / meant... Kind of the same problem with the Molecule Man... did he die in the first Dark Avengers series b/c he wanted to be left alone and created a fake town or something? I thought they did okay with Thanos in IG, not great. I'd have to go re-read it, but there was something off putting even with that series. Maybe it's as simple as him being just a tad too powerful. Or maybe it had something to do with an ending that was too easy. Something...can't quite remember what I didn't like about it.

Hey, hey, hey...Spoilers!!! I haven't finished the Omnibus yet. That's what the Beyonder wants you to believe. He snapped his fingers, and WHAM!, just like that, you forgot that you've read the series 138 times already.

So he's an Inhuman mutant. Interesting. One of the things that ruined the Beyonder story is the fact that he was all powerful. There's no drama with a character who is all powerful and can do anything he wants.

Is the Beyonder still out there somewhere? If not, I wonder when they'll introduce him again. I mean, with today's writers, I bet they could actually do something good with him. Like date Dazzler.

That may explain why he is so confused in regards to Secret Wars II. I'm tempted to go out and buy 9.8 slabbed copies of each issue, crack them out, press them to 9.9s, get them SS'ed by Al Milgrom, Jim Shooter, and Steve Leialoha, fly to Hawaii, climb to the top of Kilauea and not just drop each slab in, but throw them in as hard as I could. How do you like THEM apples? If it works for Frodo, it'll work for you.