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thonkycat

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    Wizard World New Orleans — January 4-6, 2019

    in Comic Events

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    My boy is having a blast.  He bought his first silver age books last night from Dale Roberts’ booth, and this morning he got his grail book from the Reece brothers.  Thanks for making his first show a memorable one.  There were a few sights I steered him away from (“did that woman forget her pants?”) but nothing dangerous and everyone seems extremely friendly.  

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    n2wdw's Tales of the Comic Book Room

    in Golden Age Comic Books

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    On 8/7/2017 at 11:39 AM, n2wdw said:

    You're right, I'm space limited.  To deal with that, I've had to make choices about what to collect.

    For example, I've pretty much stopped collecting Star Wars and Star Trek action figures.  For Star Trek, I'm limiting my collection to just the Playmates figures, and not all of them.  I've capped my Star Wars collection in a similar manner -- I've essentially picked an arbitrary point and not collecting anything after that point.  The same is true for DC Direct, Marvel Legends, etc. 

    As for comics, I'm not buying anything new (with a few exceptions, like Terry Moore and Optic Nerve).  I am buying old stuff though.  Some of my projects are:

    • Completing Tomb of Dracula (just need 1, 3, 7 and 33)
    • Completing Strange Tales - all the issues after Dr. Strange's 1st appearance (need 9 more issues)
    • Completing Tales of Suspense - all the issues after Iron Man's 1st appearance (need 18 more)
    • Getting all the early appearances of the Teen Titans

    But this doesn't take more space, as there's room in the existing long boxes.  I'm also focused right now on GGA and keys, but I have a lot of room on shelves for both CGC books and raw.

    A storage issue I have in the future is what to do with my miscellaneous comic alphabet (12 long boxes), magazines (8 mag boxes) and CGC boxes (about 12 of them).  I think I can fit the CGC boxes in closets of our beach house.  The other stuff will probably have to go in a storage unit somewhere. 

     

    It's nice to see someone so into so many different things.  Thanks for sharing.