MathMan-migration

Ok thanks Paul for getting back with me. I will heed your advice and view the other threads. MathMan

It seems as though you prefer PGX over CGC. Why?

I like the room, except I prefer DC over Marvel. Classy room though... -MathMan

sckao thanks for the useful post! -MathMan

Actually the boxes aren't empty. I have stuck cardboard slits into each box in the front and back end in order to ensure each books protection. I started doing this 6 years ago, when I began to notice how weathered the comics in the front and back were becoming. Because of this, I no longer have this problem. It didn't take me very long to fill up the boxes. Like I said in a previous post I use this software called ComicBase. I bought the deluxe edition with came with a comic UPC scanner. It has almost every ISBN in the history of comics programed into it. Again the cool thing about this is it updates automatically every week when books are released. However my favorite feature is that it will even scan though poly-bags to read the bar-code. Pretty impressive... But you are right in a sense, doing all of this by hand would be a royal pain. -MathMan

No I don't think so. My reasoning is that the boxes in row one are already sitting on a 3/4 of an inch of solid acid free maple plywood just as you suggested. I haven't thought about the 3rd row before.... But I will take your advice and check into this. Thanks for the tip. -MathMan

I actually have even more of these boxes aligned on the other side of the room. Believe it or not this room is actually quite small and I had a hard time even getting this shot. My camera simply couldn't zoom out wide enough. -MathMan

Drawerboxes are the way to go. I actually just got finished 3 weeks ago redoing my whole collection with them. I buy them from a local dealer for two reasons. For one you can purchase them at wholesale or individually, and two you don't have to pay those outlandish shipping prices. They are very rigid and sturdy, and easy to put together. So yea I like them alot. I sell most of my books on Ebay. Right now I have near 30,000 comic books in inventory. Mostly silver and golden age stuff. I am a huge Superman Fan. Also one other thing that I want to add. I use a program called Comic Base to catalog my inventory. It is relatively inexpensive and does of beautiful job of updating on it's own when new titles are released. I still keep most of expensive titles in safety deposit box though for obvious reasons.

My comic collection....Over 180 drawerboxes in my bedroom....