davebo357

I feel like this came up once before or maybe it was on other forums, but my dad had a shed converted to a home office in the back yard, and he assembled the FLAGG in parts over several days, then christmas morning after midnight he brought all the pieces over to the house and put them together in the living room. They somehow managed to get up before my sister and I and mom waited with her camera for me to come into the room and see it. Still have the photo. And yes I sold it for peanuts at a yard sale when we moved years later. Although I did have a bunch of Garbage Pail Kids stickers on it which I'm sure would have hurt its resale value.

No problem. I'll throw in the inside in case you wanted that too. It at least shows the scale. The figure itself is 16"

I got some new decorated short boxes but the only major thing to change in my room lately is I finally put together the TMNT diorama that was an SDCC exclusive from NECA. I got the turtles movie figures to go with it, but instead of getting them out I populated it with a bunch of Wolverines and the newly released Days of Future Past Sentinel/Wolvie set. Since this photo I already added a Harley Davidson for one to ride, Sabretooth and Omega Red. These 6" Marvel Legends toys are addictive.

I like when displays have a really really specific theme. That's dedication.

Looks super clean, I like it. But how are you going to work on puzzles at it? Where do your legs go? (Apologies in advance if your legs have been chopped off in an axe mishap.)

Frazettastic?

The "plan" is for us to hoard our collections at this house until we both die and my wife logs into this website and sells everything to one of you guys for pennies :P Nothing temporary about the situation, very long term as far as we're concerned. Space isn't an issue really, only in the context of that comic room, but his room will have plenty more space in it.

That's quite an upgrade. Congrats!

Totally understand how this looks on the surface but don't worry, my wife is fully on board and this has been part of the plan for years now, just accelerated by his father's passing and mother's hospitalization. We bought a house that's unreasonably large for two people although we're working on one kid and see how that goes. He is actually working on culling those boxes down too. A good chunk of space is just taken up by those Previews magazines which anyone familiar knows how thick those things are, and I can say from experience they're the first thing you toss when moving a big collection. If space were an issue he could actually fit all that in the bedroom we have for him here, but I imagine when it's all settled we'll have everything looking decently organized. He's got a ton of hard and paperback collections, and his bedroom has this enormous custom bookshelf that was actually a built-in my parents had made for my bedroom that I didn't want to get left behind at their old house. Obviously I'm still jealous since it doesn't have drawers sized for comics with cool insert panels on the front, but it's pretty nice. It also occurs to me that he has a ton of collections of comics I own single issues of that aren't worth much, so I could probably stand to trim my collection down too.

Imagine a store where 100% of the inventory were things you liked so much you'd buy them.

So I have a friend I've known since pre-school (1982?) who's going to be moving in with my wife and I next year. He's been keeping most of his comics in a guest bedroom where he currently lives that I haven't looked inside of for probably ten years. I assumed by this point his collection was huge and we'd be integrating it into my comic room when he moved here, but now that I see it I don't think it'll even fit. Figured I'd post some "before" photos and then see what this all looks like a year from now at my house.

Is it okay to have comics exposed to ambient sunlight like this? Are the CGC cases UV coated? I don't recall if he originally posted any formal instructions. Basically you head to your local Lowes or wherever and pick up 6' long Rubbermaid shelves like this: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Rubbermaid-Linen-6-ft-L-x-12-in-D-White-Wire-Shelf/3098543 Then instead of mounting it normally, you flip it backwards against the wall so that the 1' part is facing upwards and the 1" ledge is sticking out to hold your comics. Get some of these to go along the bottom of it: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Rubbermaid-Fixed-Mount-Back-Clip/3277081 Then some of (and I can't seem to find a link right now) the "C" clamps that will be in the same section. Sometimes they come with drywall anchors and screws but I just used straight drywall screws since they go along the top and aren't bearing much weight, just holding it to the wall. Then because I'm just super paranoid about things falling from an earthquake or whatever, I ran some hanging wire across the whole thing so they can't ever fall forward, which I'll probably replace with fishing wire sometime. The whole white grid doesn't look great, but the more packed with comics it is, the less of it you actually see. You can tell in my photo what I did was just take two 6' sections and mount them next to each other, which is kind of a pain to line up perfectly. And just because you're interested in wall mounts I'll throw out the other really popular option here is Ikea's Mosslanda black or white wall mounts that have a built-in ledge: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70292104/

The one in the utility room fell, so all we lost was a bottle of clothes detergent and time cleaning up the mess. (apologies for the repost but) the comic rack is still fully secure on the right wall:

Total aside but I'm still enjoying this idea I stole from you. As coincidence would have it, when we first moved into this house my wife and I put up one of these racks (in the proper orientation) in the utility room. I thought the bits it came with to affix it to the wall were a little lackluster, but they seemed to do the job... up until it completely yanked out and fell to the floor. Because I bought the stuff you recommended and had a bunch of extra left over, about an hour ago I got it remounted and seems a lot more stable this time, so a second thanks to you!

I love the latest Boxes In Action design but I really can't justify buying it since I don't need it AND I have like three Transformers issues total, but if anyone here is a big Transformers fan I'd love to see this long and short box Optimus Prime combo show up in someone's comic room photo: http://columbiahobby.com/boxes-in-action-optimus-prime-time-comic-box-set/

Yeah it definitely will. I'm hoping a lot of his current books can go in his bedroom and we can stick rarely-accessed boxes in this room. I should make him take a photo of his current room, post it here, then later this year see what this room looks like with the two combined. That frame the FotC poster is in is a cheap plastic one over 30 years old so it just falls apart if you hang it, and I've already got a concert poster of theirs with Albi the Racist Dragon in a nice frame in the hall, so I lack incentive to hang that folded one there right now. I'm thinking this room needs my old Art Adams Wolverine poster, another Star Wars, another Tick, and maybe an X-Men.

Alright, despite Lou's victory I'm gonna throw my hat in the ring as a work in progress. Picked up the shelving unit a few weeks back and threw my short boxes on it sideways just to fill them up, but the plan is for a friend of mine to move in with us later this year, and he's got a bigger collection than I do. After measuring I figure the rack should hold 48 short boxes, and I started building a roll-out shelf for my long boxes on the floor. Gonna shorten the overhang and drill larger handles in, but they roll out pretty easily with just my index fingers in the current holes so at least it's functional. Old pc's on the desk for video conversion projects, some toys, old video game consoles and boxes. There are Tick and Star Wars posters just out of view.

Yeah congrats on such an impressive piece. I bought this huge steel rack on Friday and hung some posters, so my comic room is starting to at least look presentable, but I think I'm gonna hold off on taking any photos until it's tidier. I'll just ride this Lou wave of photos into next week then post an update of my own

Yeah I suppose, but frankly I'd prefer if they got rid of the groove and just moved the lip back to where the groove is. Can't imagine what I'd need that extra inch for. Maybe some action figures would be cool?

In that photo and in a bunch of people's rooms here are the black version of Ikea's Mosslanda picture shelves with a little ridge: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20291767/ I was thinking of doing those for a long time but Ikea is just a pain to get to and shop at, and another poster had a wall full of these really cheap laundry room shelves that he mounted vertically with a one inch ledge, and there's a Lowes nearby so I just did that for now. Here's a photo of mine that are straight in a row: They're great for a "Comic book room" but if I were doing a nice hallway like your photo I'd go for the Mosslanda.

Assuming no deception on the part of the seller I got it from, it was the original. The guy bought all Marvel comics as a kid in the 70's, and cut every one out and taped it into the collector's book, then put a black mark over the price on the cover to denote he cut the stamp out, so it fit perfectly. What he did is slice the tape that was holding it in the stamp book along the edges, left it on the stamp, then used archival tape to connect it back into the comic. There's a photo of it at the bottom of page 45 of this thread. Out of curiosity I checked ebay for sold listings of unqualified 4.5's and in the past few months saw everything from 850-1300. Pretty big range but I'm not concerned. My CGC collecting is in its infancy still, and I'm a few decades away from selling mode. First I gotta see if and how many kids I have, then what their college tuition looks like in 18 years

If anyone remembers my post last September, that raw IH181 I got off ebay was my very first foray into comics worth over $20, and after joining these boards I quickly shipped it off to CGC through my local comic shop. They said it'd probably take a while, and since then I got impatient and picked up a graded 7.5 and a slew of over X-Men/Wolverine related comics. Earlier tonight though, the store owner called me and said it came in. Asked if I remember what I thought it'd be graded when I brought it to him, which I kind of figured would be a qualified 4.5. Turns out it came back Unqualified 4.5! I know it's nothing special compared to my 7.5, and certainly compared to these amazing 9.8's here, but it feels like a big win. (I'm also loving that car which I got in Wolverine Yellow)

I feel like when we're just shooting covers in the 9.4-9.8 range, how great it looks really comes down to the camera/scanner being used. Out of curiosity, do you all find when scanning CGC comics on a flatbed scanner that the distance between the glass and the actual comic degrades the image a bit? I feel like raw comics scan a fair amount better than something in a case.

Quoting myself from back in December because while I didn't spend too decent an amount, I did want to at least be able to say I have a 94, so consider my GSXM1/XM94 club dues paid.

Sold me exactly what I was looking for, got here quicker than expected and packaged very securely. Much thanks!