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[oakman29]

7 minutes ago, porcupine48 said:

I tried to go that far and went mad because I wanted to keep Canadian editions,companies seperate,then went maybe by ages and....oh boi,it's a disaster.I know where stuff is sorta,but-disaster!

 

Looks like my records,minus the bottom rows.I don't want to have to murder my cats!Also why I never did my comics like that.

Looks great Oak,and seeing that cat scratcher...oh man!  Brave AND a cat master!

She has never even thought of scratching anything other than that scratcher.

 

Edited February 8, 2020 by oakman29
My baby. 🥰

[porcupine48]

Just now, oakman29 said:

She has never even thought of scratching anything other than that scratcher.

 

 I love her!Looks like my no longer with is girl Emily,I think I showed you a pic years ago?

Most of ours are okay,but don't want the risk This dude has an attitude issue as you can see  

[oakman29]

1 minute ago, porcupine48 said:

 I love her!Looks like my no longer with is girl Emily,I think I showed you a pic years ago?

Most of ours are okay,but don't want the risk This dude has an attitude issue as you can see  

Awesome. My baby's name is ghoolie.

Named after Svenghoolie 

[porcupine48]

9 minutes ago, oakman29 said:

Awesome. My baby's name is ghoolie.

Named after Svenghoolie 

That fella's the Spaceman after Bowie.Deaf as a stone.

My comic room gargoyle!

[oakman29]

1 minute ago, porcupine48 said:

That fella's the Spaceman after Bowie.Deaf as a stone.

My comic room gargoyle!

A good guard cat.😎

[porcupine48]

How not to organize!About half the hoard

And the great music room disaster in progress

[Get Marwood & I]

Doesn't look like a disaster to me Jim. Looks damn cool is what it looks. What's the story on the owl?

[marvelmaniac]

To make it short and sweet (which cannot really be done with 42,000 books)...

Books need to be sorted by title (alphabetical) then placed in numerical order in whatever you use for comic storage with the boxes all being labeled as to what titles/numbers are in each box.

Once that is done make a quick list of what you have in titles, IE: Amazing Spider-Man 1 - 441 Annuals 1- 27, Avengers 1- 200, etc.

Once you are organized then you can start grading/valuing the key books, (without an estimated grade you cannot determine a value) you can place stickers on the back of the bags/mylites showing the grade/value for that book.

Me, I graded all 2000 of my books back in 2015, took pics of all of them with the grade and made a list of each individual book, its grade and any notes about the book, took me 6 month's, the pics/list is stored on my computer and two separate flashdrives in a 42 page PDF, however 2000 books is a far cry from 42,000...

Good Luck on whatever you choose to do.

[lizards2]

In addition to labeling the boxes, you will find many titles filling partial boxes, or mixed in with other stuff.  I have been missing my main Conan 1-18 for the past 10 years because I don't know what box I put them in to fill it up.

So for me, I do label the boxes, but keep a separate, and highly recommended "BOXLORE" reminder of what short titles may be filling up boxes.

Additionally, and highly recommended, is mapping your collection.  In the example "West Right Wall", the short boxes are two boxes deep on the shelving, so I can't see the labels behind.  I have to use the map all the time to locate boxes, even those in front, as they are not in alpha order.  Note the boxes are listed in clusters of two in each column.

I am currently in the process of inventorying and bagging the last 15 -17 years of modern comics, so I feel your pain.

[GlennSimpson]

2 hours ago, marvelmaniac said:

To make it short and sweet (which cannot really be done with 42,000 books)...

Books need to be sorted by title (alphabetical) then placed in numerical order in whatever you use for comic storage with the boxes all being labeled as to what titles/numbers are in each box.

Once that is done make a quick list of what you have in titles, IE: Amazing Spider-Man 1 - 441 Annuals 1- 27, Avengers 1- 200, etc.

Once you are organized then you can start grading/valuing the key books, (without an estimated grade you cannot determine a value) you can place stickers on the back of the bags/mylites showing the grade/value for that book.

Me, I graded all 2000 of my books back in 2015, took pics of all of them with the grade and made a list of each individual book, its grade and any notes about the book, took me 6 month's, the pics/list is stored on my computer and two separate flashdrives in a 42 page PDF, however 2000 books is a far cry from 42,000...

Good Luck on whatever you choose to do.

Actually the part you reference above is a done deal, I think I was pondering more what order to put the series in themselves.

Just a few random examples:

For the JLA-Avengers crossover, technically 2 of the issues are titled "Avengers-JLA" and two are titles "JLA-Avengers" in the indicia.  File them separately or just all together under one or the other?

Generally the question of, put all of the Superman titles together (putting Action and Adventures of Superman in with the S's) or keep them filed strictly by title name?

New52 Futures End one-shots - file with each title or together with the main Future's End series?

[oakman29]

11 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

How not to organize!About half the hoard

And the great music room disaster in progress

Liking the Elvis stuff.😎

[The Lions Den]

16 hours ago, oakman29 said:

Here is a bit of my collection. 

 

That's quite a bit...

[Aman619]

3 hours ago, GlennSimpson said:

Actually the part you reference above is a done deal, I think I was pondering more what order to put the series in themselves.

Just a few random examples:

For the JLA-Avengers crossover, technically 2 of the issues are titled "Avengers-JLA" and two are titles "JLA-Avengers" in the indicia.  File them separately or just all together under one or the other?

Generally the question of, put all of the Superman titles together (putting Action and Adventures of Superman in with the S's) or keep them filed strictly by title name?

New52 Futures End one-shots - file with each title or together with the main Future's End series?

You’re practically done already!  I try to place the one shots like Avengers-JLA and JLA-Avengers in the same alphabetical order as Overstreet  does.  And with so many books, the cheap stuff like this doesn’t really matter too much if they are in the “wrong place.  Even knowing which box they are in it’s often too much trouble to dig em out and move them.  One book would be easy, but a whole title causes a cascade effect where you are bumping 12” of comics from box to box! 

someone once posted that he adds his comics in boxes as he acquires them, in that order, and notes every comic in each box in a database.  He looks up the comic and knows exactly where it is.  I thought that Was really cool and was a great time saver especially when buying  a lot of new books every week... but —- ocd requires me to store by title and alphabet! 
 

definitely pull out the valuable stuff though.  In a pinch you don’t need the rest. Yeah sucks later when you look through the runs and issues are missing... but it’s also pretty nice to look through the boxes of “keepers” too!

[GlennSimpson]

15 minutes ago, Aman619 said:

You’re practically done already!  I try to place the one shots like Avengers-JLA and JLA-Avengers in the same alphabetical order as Overstreet  does.  And with so many books, the cheap stuff like this doesn’t really matter too much if they are in the “wrong place.  Even knowing which box they are in it’s often too much trouble to dig em out and move them.  One book would be easy, but a whole title causes a cascade effect where you are bumping 12” of comics from box to box! 

someone once posted that he adds his comics in boxes as he acquires them, in that order, and notes every comic in each box in a database.  He looks up the comic and knows exactly where it is.  I thought that Was really cool and was a great time saver especially when buying  a lot of new books every week... but —- ocd requires me to store by title and alphabet! 
 

definitely pull out the valuable stuff though.  In a pinch you don’t need the rest. Yeah sucks later when you look through the runs and issues are missing... but it’s also pretty nice to look through the boxes of “keepers” too!

I solved the "box shift" problem, for the most part, but going ahead and allocating a lot of extra space for the collection as a whole, and then leaving space in various boxes (including sticking an empty comics box in here and there).  Use empty Amazon-type boxes in the back of un-full comics boxes to hold up the comics.

Interesting about pulling the valuable stuff.  I do have some stuff in a fire safe, may consider having a "not quite as hot as what is in the safe but hotter than the rest of the collection" box as well.

[oakman29]

1 hour ago, The Lions Den said:

That's quite a bit...

Believe it or not that's just my Amazing Spider Man run, and Warren horror. sheesh .

[shadroch]

21 hours ago, GlennSimpson said:

There are obviously lots of ways to organize comics.  But here's a particular scenario I thought I'd see what other folks think.

I have a pretty big collection, like 42,000+ issues.  When my dad passed away, he had coin and stamp collections.  My sister spent a bunch of time trying to figure out what he had and what it was worth.  So the notion of having the collection organized in a manner that would make it easiest for someone to deal with if something were to happen to me is always in the back of my mind.  The idea is that they would have someone come in and look at the collection and make them an offer, something like that.

So something like "chronologically by cover date" just seems like not the way to go, as that would be really irritating for someone trying to figure out what was in the collection.

At the moment, I am sorta thinking about 2-3 options for rearranging them.  I should note that I have this sort of sickness in the head where I enjoy doing this every once in a while but it's gotten to the point where there are so many that I really shouldn't unless it is for a good reason.

One option would be what I would call "comics shop organizing" - so like all of the Spider-Man stuff in one place, all the Superman together, etc.

Another option would be to make sure it was all in the same order as the Overstreet guide, such that if someone was familiar with where things fall there they would expect to find it in the collection.

Another would be just an "alphabetical by title" normal thing where it might different from Overstreet guide in a few ways, like not having "Batman One-Shots" all grouped together but rather strictly organized by title.

Just wondering what other people might think on this subject.

If the idea is to organize them in order to make it easier to dispose of them, just do it by value. Something like over $250, over $100, over $25, over $10.Anything under $10, just organize by company. You will do better if you have five boxes of super premium, ten premium, twenty above average boxes, fifty boxes of decent stuff and fifty of than if you have 140 boxes of runs. Take Daredevil, as an example.  There are maybe a dozen issues a dealer really cares about.  The less work a dealer has to do ,the more he is willing to pay.

 

 

[porcupine48]

2 hours ago, oakman29 said:

Liking the Elvis stuff.😎

Oh Dave,I got Elvis stuff lemme tell you! That's a whole other rabbit hole.

[porcupine48]

11 hours ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Doesn't look like a disaster to me Jim. Looks damn cool is what it looks. What's the story on the owl?

That's a pen and ink my Papa did when he was seventeen,a very important item to me.One of the things first grabbed if we had to flee.

[Get Marwood & I]

6 hours ago, lizards2 said:

So for me, I do label the boxes....

[Get Marwood & I]

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