Okay, I've put this off long enough.

Here's a quick and dirty look at my Sanctum Sanctorum. I'd intended to get those piles of comics put away, redo the labels on my short boxes (I reorganized recently), and move around some posters, but this will have to do:



The long corridor from the stairs to my finished attic. That's the Post-Crisis Superman run I'm currently reviewing being displayed on the wall. The many stacks of comics resting on top of my short boxes aren't supposed to be there. I just need to find time to put them all away. Adam Warlock will also recognize a structure made of Constux in the foreground right. In the distance is my framed original clippings of the Joker's first appearance in the 1943 Batman comic strip.




The main part of my office, complete with reading couch. On the coffee table are some 1990s X-Men figures I picked up at my LCS the other day, along with my collection of Hammer Dracula films.




Reverse angle view. You'll note that those posters have not been moved since I added the stereo and speakers atop those shelves. I really need to get around to that. Above them are my three original art pieces: two original pages from Breyfogle's Life with Archie, and one commissioned Usagi Yojimbo piece from Stan Sakai. Also, I do own more than three shelves worth of actual books. I only keep my absolute favorites, as well as ones I'm currently reading, in the attic. We have shelves and shelves of other books in other rooms.




The chair I'm sitting at right now, and what's behind it.




Reverse angle view

I am quite jealous right now. 

You noticed


I actually love Miller's Batman when it's treated as an out of continuity experiment and not revered as being an iconic depiction of the character. In my mind, All-Star Batman was the culmination of Miller's work, though I know no one else agrees with me. His was a depiction in which Gotham was an infection, poisoning the mind of all within, and he was slowly setting up Bruce and Dick to be characters who would begin to find some sort of salvation through each other, even if that salvation was doomed to be temporary.

I could go on, but chances are anyone reading this is already shaking their head in bewilderment or, at least, adamant disagreement

Very nice mrp and shaxper .

Wow Mrp how long have you been collecting ? I amazed by your collection . I see you have the Barry Windsor Smith story teller . Do you own the individual books ? I have about half of the collection , I see on your desk Kull and the Barbarians magazines , I just found issue 2 3 a few weeks back to complete my set . I really like you Dr Strange area . Are the rumors true about a movie . I would love to get the strange tales run but more than likely never will .

THe BWS Storyteller is a slipcase that holds the 9 issues of the series, not a trade collection. I just picked up Kull and the Barbarians 2 and 3 form a Lonestar order to complete the series myself.

As for Strange-which movie rumors? They have a director in place for the movie, so it is happening, but casting rumors change every day right now it seems. I had the complete Dr. Strange run in Strange Tales except 110 and 114, but sold them off along with most of my Marvel Silver Age stuff about a decade ago before relocating to Ohio. I've been "collecting" since high school, with my real big start coming in '85 when I turned 16 and could get a job and had my own money, but I have taken breaks that have lasted for years and sold off a lot of stuff over the years as well. I topped out at over 10K floppies circa 2000, but sold off the bulk of that as I mentioned before down to about 1500, but kept mostly personal faves. I also kept most of the trades (I sold off a bunch of Masterworks and DC Archives as well regrettably) and a lot of the ancillary stuff (toys, posters, prints, etc.). I also sold off the bulk of my "collectible & vintage" gaming stuff at the time too. Used most of the money to pay moving costs and for our wedding circa '03 when I moved out to Ohio with Amy. the rest on some redecorating/refurbishing projects for the house she had there and to fund my first push to get stuff published (which resulted in me writing for the RPG industry for about 2 years). 

I took a long break starting at the end of '07, which lasted until 2011. I dabbled here and there picking up an odd trade of a handful of cheap floppies at Half Priced Books, but didn't set foot in a comic shop, buy online, go to a con, or anything for that 3+ year period. Early in 2012, just before I joined the old classics forum at our previous home, I dipped my toe back in with a pull list consisting of the upcoming new Conan series from Dark Horse and 2 upcoming Image books that had caught my eye (Fatale and Saga). I had gotten a table at Champion City Con at the end of 2011 with the intent of selling of the last of the stuff I had sitting around and ended up getting sucked back in. A lot of what you see there has been added since then, but a lot of the ancillary stuff in the pics is holdovers from before. I would say 60% of the ancillary is from pre-2007 break, 40% after, trades probably the other way 40% pre-break, 60% post break, and floppies are more like 20% pre-break 80% after. The vast majority (say 80-85%) of the floppies acquired post-2012 return are from dollar, fifty cent and quarter bins and the like. Most of the pricier stuff has been acquired either via trade or using funds/credit I got from selling off the last remnants of the stuff I had to sell at that 2012 con. (I have learned shopping techniques from my wife that I apply to my comic-related acquisitions. Patience is the key, something I never had as a younger opportunity, coupled with researching options and understanding my budget and how to maximize the resources I do have. 

-M

That's cool.