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the unimpressive comic room showcase

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01TheDude

01TheDude

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I am going to have to live with that thread title, but whatever!

 

I have decided the correct term for me, besides original comic art collector, is comic reader. I don't collect comics so much as store the ones I read. I bought some Moebius comics the other day off ebay and when I opened the package I realized these were now the nicest comics in my collection, almost without a doubt. So collecting high grade comics was never my thing. Yes, I grabbed some comics second hand along the way, including a Strange Tales 169 and Daredevil 9 and 10 but not much else unless I bought it to read off the rack. But along the way about 25 years ago I started collecting original art due to a chance encounter with Paul Ryan or Sam de la Rosa at a convention. [i recall thinking "artists draw at cons?" with Paul Ryan and "they sell the art used to make comic pages?" with Samuel de la Rosa (who was one of a few Latino inkers credited as "Manuel Labor" on the issue and who told me that he did not like that one bit) but am not sure which happened first.]

 

Comic art led me to these boards a few years ago. I had resisted the siren call until recently. But Doc McCoy (I think it was) came over to the OA parts of the boards advertising (his?) free David Petersen art in some thread called Pay it Forward. As I was in the process of trading art regularly with a local dealer, I promptly went and claimed said art. Sadly I traded it away almost immediately to the dealer. I apologize; I was single-minded and unthinking at the time but understand my mistake now. So please forgive me.

 

But PIF sucked me in right from the start. Especially when I jumped on another piece of OA quickly (still have that one, don't worry). Then a strange thing occurred. I watched as some really cool slabs were given away to fellow boardies. When a nice X-Men slab came up I decided to take the plunge and claim it. (Thanks Griff!) I was quickly offered another slab gratis from a boardie (looking forward to getting that one! :applause:). Now this weekend I took the plunge and decided to have some fun and get a few for myself. I figured it really doesn't matter so much if they are comics I have read and admired so much as fun things to look at on the shelf. So I put out the call for cheap slabs and that thread inspired me to start this one and chronicle the rise through the ranks of my first rate collection. NOT! I am not trying to start a new collection, but have some cool comics displayed that will make me smile.

 

So without further eloquence...

 

Bird's Top Shelf Slabs!

 

#1 in the closet and in your hearts, courtesy of Griff...not the crime dog just a slab hound...she a beauty with white pages...it's X-Men 248 9.4

 

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Done worry folks, she won't be lonely for long. Join us later this week, same slab time,same slab channel...it's a race against time between Amazing Spider-Man and The Defenders! See you here!

 

 

 

copied from the current thread the guy just started --- you have to start somewhere so why not here? You can aim for the pinned thread that showcases the amazing stuff someday but for now-- you are one of us.

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Chadwick

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Then there's the Recil Macon collection...

 

Recil's shack where the comics were:

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And the cabinet in the shack!

 

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Honorary entry!

 

If ever this thread needed a role model, this is it. Aim low, you might be the next Recil Macon

 

Anymore pics?

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4comix

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:shy:

 

Times have changed.

Some years ago, we wouldn't have dared to distribute a picture like that. The potential consequences could have been severe.

 

If I told you how many days and nights I spent locked up (cumulative) for just a portion of what's in one of those jars, you would feel sympathy for me. Maybe.

 

maaan you need a vacuum sealer lol that's a lot of grass i mean glass :o

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01TheDude

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I had this closet built almost 15 years ago to house my collection. Within 5 years of building the closet, the collection outgrew the space:

 

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I can no longer walk into the closet.

 

These boxes are lining the walls of my home office:

 

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I figure I have room for two more short boxes on the office walls and then I need another room to use.

 

I feel like I should be on an episode of Extreme Collectors! While I don't feel the collection is a burden (my wife has a different opinion) I do not get the same enjoyment out of it I would if it was more manageable.

 

not that this collection is not impressive (it is), but I would like to give an honorary membership to rjrjr for the massive collection of boxes throughout the office closet and walls. The part that stands out to me is the lack of putting tons of stuff on display here when clearly he has plenty to display, including some very nice Star Wars slabs on the floor just leaning against more boxes.

 

fyi-- he is planning on selling off a bunch of this collection so keep an eye out in the sales thread... good luck, dude

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