Year by year collection graph 0

[universal soldier]

Fascinating (to me anyways) how my collection size and collecting scope is tied to life events. I've been migrating over to collectorz and one of the graphs they provide for statistics is collection size by year. When looking at the spikes and drops of my collecting over the past nearly 50 years, you can plot a direct correlation to life changes and events.

1.  Start of collecting
2. High school begins. (Girls, , and a bit too much  )
3. College, the guy upstairs inroduces me to the George Perez run of New Teen Titans and I'm back in! (Aside: he is now the owner of my LCS).
4. I clearly have no self control. 
5. Life choice. Pay rent or continue to collect.
6. I picked up a collection of 3 long boxes with a lot of books from 91 - 94 but it included a Hulk 181, ASM 300 and a X-menn 94.
7. Back in and I clearly still have no self-control.
8. Reeling it back in a bit. Career change limits budget.
9. I join the CGC boards. All bets are off 
10. Daughter in college. I continued to buy some moderns but about half of my normal, I also purchased no back issues from 2015 - 2019.
11. Covid, lack of publication in 2020  can be tied to the lower number here.

 

[Artboy99]

This is very fascinating, thanks for posting. Your data comes from your memory or do you have something more concrete?

 

[universal soldier]

On 11/15/2022 at 8:37 PM, Artboy99 said:

This is very fascinating, thanks for posting. Your data comes from your memory or do you have something more concrete?

 

The data is legit from a 12K book collection that I've logged over the years into comics price guide and have imported into CLZ. The events are from memory of course but they correlate to the ebbs and flows of my collecting habits. For instance, I did not collect anything from the end of 1980 - 1984. Any issues that from that era are all backfill over the years and are limited to a handful of key titles (ASM, FF, Hulk etc..). Other timeframes include the core books I collect plus anything else I was buying at the time.

[oldmilwaukee6er]

Cool post! I can track some major life events via the newsstand copies in my Spawn collection... college, cross country moves, and basically the short spells I went without a LCS. 

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This is a very fascinating post indeed! It's quite fun to get a glimpse into someones life like this with the breakdown of how your collecting habits have changed throughout your life. Thanks for sharing!

[shadroch]

The 1984-88 period was truly comics golden age, even if some pikers stole the term for their own uses.

[universal soldier]

On 11/16/2022 at 11:20 AM, Loading... said:

This is a very fascinating post indeed! It's quite fun to get a glimpse into someones life like this with the breakdown of how your collecting habits have changed throughout your life. Thanks for sharing!

Based on your location, we've likely bought from similar stores. Do you have a LCS in the area that you use? I remember there was a shop in Framingham near legal seafood that I used to frequent all the time. Of course Bedrock Comics too!

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@universal soldierOh wow Bedrock Comics is the LCS I use the most. Hall of Comics is another good spot a little west of here. After moving outside of Boston it's nice to know there are some good shops around here to help fill this addiction haha. A new coworker was just talking about CLZ the other week and I had forgotten to look into it. If these are some of the fun visual extras included it might be worth checking out. The old excel spreadsheet gets a bit boring to look at.

[universal soldier]

On 11/16/2022 at 3:32 PM, Loading... said:

@universal soldierOh wow Bedrock Comics is the LCS I use the most. Hall of Comics is another good spot a little west of here. After moving outside of Boston it's nice to know there are some good shops around here to help fill this addiction haha. A new coworker was just talking about CLZ the other week and I had forgotten to look into it. If these are some of the fun visual extras included it might be worth checking out. The old excel spreadsheet gets a bit boring to look at.

Hall of Comics is my LCS  I've known one of the owners (John) since college and he's the guy I reference in my post. I need to visit Bedrock soon, I've picked up some great books from Jack in the past. If you ever venture out Worcester way, That's Entertainment is a great stop with a boatload of back issues.

On 11/15/2022 at 5:24 PM, universal soldier said:

3. College, the guy upstairs inroduces me to the George Perez run of New Teen Titans and I'm back in! (Aside: he is now the owner of my LCS).

 

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On 11/16/2022 at 3:41 PM, universal soldier said:

Hall of Comics is my LCS  I've known one of the owners (John) since college and he's the guy I reference in my post. I need to visit Bedrock soon, I've picked up some great books from Jack in the past. If you ever venture out Worcester way, That's Entertainment is a great stop with a boatload of back issues.

That's awesome, I was just in there this past Friday. I like the new location, it allows me to hit up yummy mummy and grab a treat for the wife haha.

Thanks for the tip about That's Entertainment, I will make sure to check them out next time I am out that way!