What percentage of your collection have you actually read?

[CDaBruce]

I've been reading at least 5 comic books a day and between these boards and reading all the great comics I have left I've never enjoyed

the hobby more.

 

It's funny. I spend 10x more time pursuing, acquiring, and reading about comic books than I do actually reading the books themselves. I like your idea of reading a certain amount of books a day. Then I might actually know what is worth keeping (or upgrading) and what to get rid of.

[CDaBruce]

. I guess I'm weird because I'll collect a run and then just read it in a trade so as to not goof up the individual issues.

 

 

That is exactly what I do with The Walking Dead

Single issues - untouched.

Retailer Incentive Hardcover - still sealed

Trade paperbacks - read again and again.

Omnibus - sealed.

 

 

[Calamerica]

I re-read the Silver Surfer TPB Fireside many times. Great one.

 

CAL

[Fan4Fan]

Since purchasing... or ever (since I'm rebuilding part of the collection I had as a kid)?

 

If ever, probably closer to 60%.

[kimik]

Moderns - every single one.

 

Bronze - 25%

 

Silver - 0% (I have never cracked any of the slabs open)

[Calamerica]

I've been reading at least 5 comic books a day and between these boards and reading all the great comics I have left I've never enjoyed

the hobby more.

 

It's funny. I spend 10x more time pursuing, acquiring, and reading about comic books than I do actually reading the books themselves. I like your idea of reading a certain amount of books a day. Then I might actually know what is worth keeping (or upgrading) and what to get rid of.

 

the evolving stages of turning into a Dealer.

 

CAL

[G.A.tor]

moderns...100%...

silver age...100%...

golden age...100% (even tec 1, tec 27, action 1, etc...some books bought slabbed were cracked and read, if another copy or the story was not available to read somewhere)

gator

[Fazybones]

I've been reading at least 5 comic books a day and between these boards and reading all the great comics I have left I've never enjoyed

the hobby more.

 

It's funny. I spend 10x more time pursuing, acquiring, and reading about comic books than I do actually reading the books themselves. I like your idea of reading a certain amount of books a day. Then I might actually know what is worth keeping (or upgrading) and what to get rid of.

 

I only discovered this awesome hobby about five and half years ago

and like you spent many hours searching e-bay, on-line dealers and

other outlets and found it very hard to stop and enjoy the books I

worked so hard to obtain.

 

Being so new to the hobby I didn't get a chance to read so many of

the great books out there like some of the many long time collectors

did. I'm still finding artists or writers I love after reading a book and

now have a new title(s) to search for when I go back to my normal

buying habits. (thumbs u

[Calamerica]

I've been reading at least 5 comic books a day and between these boards and reading all the great comics I have left I've never enjoyed

the hobby more.

 

It's funny. I spend 10x more time pursuing, acquiring, and reading about comic books than I do actually reading the books themselves. I like your idea of reading a certain amount of books a day. Then I might actually know what is worth keeping (or upgrading) and what to get rid of.

 

I only discovered this awesome hobby about five and half years ago

and like you spent many hours searching e-bay, on-line dealers and

other outlets and found it very hard to stop and enjoy the books I

worked so hard to obtain.

 

Being so new to the hobby I didn't get a chance to read so many of

the great books out there like some of the many long time collectors

did. I'm still finding artists or writers I love after reading a book and

now have a new title(s) to search for when I go back to my normal

buying habits. (thumbs u

 

a lot of great stuff out there.

 

CAL

[silverweb]

I've been reading at least 5 comic books a day and between these boards and reading all the great comics I have left I've never enjoyed

the hobby more.

 

It's funny. I spend 10x more time pursuing, acquiring, and reading about comic books than I do actually reading the books themselves. I like your idea of reading a certain amount of books a day. Then I might actually know what is worth keeping (or upgrading) and what to get rid of.

 

the evolving stages of turning into a Dealer.

 

CAL

 

10%

I kinda avoid opening up and reading my high grade silver age Marvels because I need to be careful with them. I hate to spend the money on readers.

I think I've turned into a hunter

 

 

[CAP Freak]

100%

[heinlein99]

I've been reading at least 5 comic books a day and between these boards and reading all the great comics I have left I've never enjoyed

the hobby more.

 

It's funny. I spend 10x more time pursuing, acquiring, and reading about comic books than I do actually reading the books themselves. I like your idea of reading a certain amount of books a day. Then I might actually know what is worth keeping (or upgrading) and what to get rid of.

 

That describes me, and I think many of us. Comic collecting seems to be a completely separate hobby from comic reading; it's almost like many of us are schizophrenic. Look at me: I started re-reading my ASM's from 135 up last week, and haven't gotten past 142. And here I am.

 

Collecting is an obsession in many ways.

[The Question?]

 

 

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, at the risk of having monkey dung thrown in my direction...

 

if anyone hasn't read 100% of their comic collection, you are a '

[Zonker]

85% until I started seriously buying (relatively) cheap Golden Age once eBay hit.

 

I've probably only read 2% of the stories in the Golden Age books I have.

[Earl Davis]

95%

[thanos_oftitan]

I'll say 85% .

 

Time is not my friend.

[chromium]

 

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, at the risk of having monkey dung thrown in my direction...

 

if anyone hasn't read 100% of their comic collection, you are a '

 

Buying 10.000+ comics hardly takes any effort at all...reading them however is an entirely different thing.

 

I'm lucky if I find the time to read 20 of them a week...so at the current rate I should be finished in about 10 - 12 years. If I stop buying right now that is...

[kidcolt]

80-90%

[kidcolt]

So should we write you in at around 80%

 

 

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, at the risk of having monkey dung thrown in my direction...

 

if anyone hasn't read 100% of their comic collection, you are a '

[DrWatson]

 

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, at the risk of having monkey dung thrown in my direction...

 

if anyone hasn't read 100% of their comic collection, you are a '

You are what you're hit with.