BA773 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 For the people who have several long runs, did you necessary organize your boxes with series by series or you prefer to put small part of each in a box? I tought it could be more funny to have several charachters and styles of books and if you have a good listing files it wouldnt be much harder to find which books are in which box. Yeah it look like stupid but i like to make different than i see elswhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCOComics Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 right now, I have everything in alphabetical order by title and number. Recently, I've thought about breaking it up by era a little more. Basically pulling out all my 50s stuff and creating a separate box. bc and BA773 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bc Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 On 2/5/2024 at 4:01 PM, KCOComics said: right now, I have everything in alphabetical order by title and number. Recently, I've thought about breaking it up by era a little more. Basically pulling out all my 50s stuff and creating a separate box. Since the bulk of my collection is Post Implosion Atlas & early Marvels, I do the same - alphabetically by title, then by number. I also have a separate box for just GA books. -bc BA773 and KCOComics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobpfef Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 10cent covers (and Giants from the same era) in one section. 12cent in another. 15cent - 50cent in another. Then everything else, with a different section for new books currently collecting that I can get to easily. If a series starts in one era and runs into another I keep in in the series in the era it started in. BlowUpTheMoon and BA773 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kripsys99 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Narrative order. BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ken Aldred Posted February 6 Popular Post Share Posted February 6 Total chaos and disorganisation. techtre2003, BA773, habsfan1 and 3 others 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dave2739 Posted February 7 Popular Post Share Posted February 7 Alpha-numeric, but I have DC separated from Marvel. ADAMANTIUM, BA773, ttfitz and 3 others 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiSoxFan Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 I have my books broken into four distinct groupings. My graded books are separate, in alphabetical and numerical order. My raws are broken into three separate groupings: "keys" (which are both major keys, as well as more minor ones), in alphabetical and numberical order, a second group of short boxes (25 or so) with Golden Age through Bronze Age, with a smattering of more modern books that carry signficant value, and lastly, the "bulk" of my collection, 85 or so long boxes with books from Copper to Modern, with one-shots and mini-series separated from regular titles. In each of these raw groupings, the books are alphabetical and numerical in order. It's given me a great system to find any book at any time. If I want to get a book that I own, I know where it is and can retrieve it within minutes. I have a friend who once kept their collection in a random order, and for the longest time, they literally had no idea what they owned, save for their memory on what they thought they'd bought. BA773 and mysterymachine 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BA773 Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 On 2/7/2024 at 1:43 AM, Dave2739 said: Alpha-numeric, but I have DC separated from Marvel. Just wonderful... Dave2739 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Telegan Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 (edited) I gave up organizing my comics in alphabetical order (or any other order, for that matter) years ago since it became a hassle to have to re-organize so that all my FFs were in specific boxes, all my Golden Age was in other boxes, etc. And that was after I used to just do it purely alphabetically, which became a nightmare once you have a pretty sizable collection (and my collection isn't that big). Instead, now I just put them in whatever box and record the box number/identifier in my collecting software. So if I want to know where all my Fantastic Fours, Vol. 1's are, I just have to search it in the software. Technically, I could even go down to something like "where are all my comics with Bill Everett cover art" or "where are all my Golden Age comics?" if I wanted to, etc., I guess, and I'd get a list of them and the box location. Edited February 8 by Telegan BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nepatkm Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Yes sort of… for my graded collections, each title has their own box/boxes. For raw books in alphabetical order. 👍 BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizards2 Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 I eat fish by scale? greggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysterymachine Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 I have my SIlver/Bronze/and copper books alphabetized in one collection and keep all modern books 2000-present in a separate collection. Then I have all my higher value books in a file cabinet. I still don't have all the modern books alphabetized yet. It's a big hassle when a box gets full, and I need to transfer books to the next box and the next box etc. to keep them in alphabetical order. BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizards2 Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 good for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadroch Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 My books are boxed by one of several categories. First by value then by companies. Books over $100 then Marvel/DC/Indy. I'm lucky in that I sold 99% of my comics last year. At one point, I had 12 slabs and less than half a short box of raws. After eight months of buying and horse trading I have 25 slabs and twelve boxes of raw. Eight of those boxes contain various books I offer for $1 each. One box is raw stuff worth around $100 each or more, one has books worth $25 or more and the other two go for $5 and up. My slabs will be limited to one Hot Flips box worth( about 28) and my raws will top out at 20 boxes. BA773 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
