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Post by Hoosier X on Dec 27, 2021 20:09:26 GMT -5
I’ve also bought a few more issues of Lois Lane lately. I’m thinking of trying to get all the Rose and Thorn issues.
Not just for Rose and Thorn. The Lois stories are coo coo. Those Fourth World cameos. I’m also fascinated by Lois’s roommates in part of that run. WTF?!?
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Post by earl on Dec 27, 2021 23:10:53 GMT -5
Another year for me selling way more comics than I bought - still really need to do the Sophie's choice and get rid of another few long boxes as I just don't have the room. I did get some reprint collections but not a whole lot of comics at all, except getting some Conan's I did not have. Debate going full Ragnarok and blowing out most of the lot, but I have not gotten to that point.
It has also been the lightest reading year I have had in probably 20 years, only about a long box (300 or so) read all year and only a handful in the past few months. Pretty much did not read anything new released comics at all.
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Post by Trevor on Jan 4, 2022 17:16:42 GMT -5
I’ve been a collector since the early 1970s, occasional lulls but never fully giving up growing the collection. So it’s pretty darn huge, and I haven’t done a good re-organization in like 20 years. Spread out in multiple rooms and some at storage, maybe 100 short boxes and a dozen bookcases of trades/hardcovers if I ever organize them. Still love them all, stuff from my childhood, stuff from decades earlier, and especially the current stuff.
So shorter answer would be: collection status = hoarder.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 4, 2022 18:28:21 GMT -5
My goal for the past few years has been to read more of what I've already amassed. According to stashmycomics.com, I own 9,398 books, and I've only read roughly 6,500 of them. Thus, I really want to read what I already have (and, often, re-read what I've already read. Otherwise, why own it?) before I put too much more on my plate. Prior to covid, I was still picking up around 100 books a year, but the fun of that went out the window once it was no longer safe to do conventions. Oh, I'm still buying the occasional book, but very very rarely. I maybe purchased 20 books last year.
I'm also selling off a lot of key issues I have that are going for absurd sums of cash on ebay. If they go back down in value down the road, I'll acquire them again, but for now, I'd rather have $500 extra bucks than my original copy of the death of Gwen Stacey (that auction just ended yesterday!).
So I guess my collection is actually shrinking right now, but not by much, and not in the long run. I figure I will have read EVERYTHING in my collection in another ten years, and then I'll get to have fun acquiring even more stuff, as well as going back to enjoy some of those 9,000+ books a second, third, of fourth time.
Enjoy what you have. Otherwise, what's the point in getting and keeping it?
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Post by shaxper on Jan 4, 2022 18:31:30 GMT -5
My latest acquisition is WHITE ZOMBIE (1932), a low-budget independant film that actually looks and feels more stylish than 1931's DRACULA! My favorite guilty pleasure film of all time! Did you happen to catch The Top 24 Bela Lugosi Films and Recorded Performances thread a while back? In it, I absolutely agreed with you, with White Zombie coming in at #1 and Dracula coming in at #8.
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Post by SJNeal on Jan 4, 2022 20:39:31 GMT -5
Unfortunately my collection continues to grow, despite efforts to the contrary. I've tried to cut back on new purchases, as well as sell off single issues that I have in collected in multiple formats, but it's been a one-step-forward/two-steps-back situation. I have sooo much unread material, I could go cold turkey tomorrow and still not run out of stuff to read for many years to come.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2022 20:36:12 GMT -5
If I were a more active collector, and had a bigger budget this year, I would contemplate a road trip to North Carolina in March to attend this estate sale-there's an insane amount of comics (looks like a lot of SA Superman), trades, D&D/rpg materials, board games, vinyl, video games, Lionel trains, and other cool stuff... Estate sale preview -M
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Post by dbutler69 on Jan 6, 2022 9:12:31 GMT -5
For the most part, I'm not actively growing my collection. I will still sometimes pick up a few random back issues (as I did just yesterday) or purchase a TPB or purchase a Kindle version of some comic I really want, but for the most part, financial and space consideration (my collection almost completely fills our master bedroom closet) I am trying not to pick up very much at all. I also don't collect new comics, though sometimes something (like a new Legion series) will catch my eye.
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Post by tartanphantom on Jan 8, 2022 0:32:04 GMT -5
I am still actively collecting floppies. I'm cursed with the mindset of an archivist and/or preservationist... I suppose my true calling in life would have been librarian. I don't feel like I gotta get 'em all, but I do enjoy collecting a healthy cross-section of all genres. I'm in no hurry to sell anything, which is why I don't really trade or sell books, nor do I bulk up on multiple copies of the same issue.
I do actively read my collection, and I have a fairly decent trade collection as well.
As far as "grails", I don't really chase them. I have a few that I am on priority alert for, but nothing that I am hunting "at any price".
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Post by MDG on Jan 8, 2022 11:26:15 GMT -5
I am still actively collecting floppies. I'm cursed with the mindset of an archivist and/or preservationist... I suppose my true calling in life would have been librarian. I don't feel like I gotta get 'em all, but I do enjoy collecting a healthy cross-section of all genres. I'm in no hurry to sell anything, which is why I don't really trade or sell books, nor do I bulk up on multiple copies of the same issue.
I do actively read my collection, and I have a fairly decent trade collection as well.
As far as "grails", I don't really chase them. I have a few that I am on priority alert for, but nothing that I am hunting "at any price".
Yeah--I enjoy going to a show or flea market and picking up random books (floppies and other formats) that I think I can read once and enjoy as long as they're at a price I feel is proportional to the enjoyment I'll get out of it. And I like the ride home w friends going through everyone's " stack." But there's nothing I'm specifically looking for. I don't think I've bought a new floppy off the stands in this century.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 10, 2022 14:09:54 GMT -5
My collection is focused on the 1960s and 70s. I fill holes when I can, although it's getting harder - the ones I don't own already are either really expensive or really obscure. Other than that, I pick up anything that looks interesting on the rare occasions when I find some comics for sale. I haven't been to a con or LCS since 2019.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2022 23:33:04 GMT -5
I have a niche for Hardcovers...I mostly get them when there's a good deal....fraction of cover price...like these 3 I got for the price of 1. Great to curl up with in bed, contain full story lines and look great on a shelf.
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Post by berkley on Jan 13, 2022 1:16:50 GMT -5
Of th top of my head, I don't have any real grails left in the sense of something that I'm just dying to get my hands on. If worse comes to worse, you can usually find an online copy or a crappy modern reprint with bad colouring. There are a few things I'd much prefer to read in their original form - Tomb of Dracula #10, or Avengers #57, for example - but at least I can read them, if not in my preferred format.
I'm glad I broke down and overpaid for a few things in the years before prices really shot through the roof - the Moon Knight debut in Werewolf by Night, for instance. I think I paid around $25 for it back in the erly 2000s, which is way over my usual limit, but I'm happy to have it now..
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Post by earl on Apr 17, 2022 9:31:40 GMT -5
I've been keeping up with some of the Conan reprints and a couple other compilations, but that's about it. Only book I have on my pull list right now is King Conan.
Getting close to have read all of the Dark Horse Conan.
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Post by earl on Apr 17, 2022 9:36:55 GMT -5
That said, I would love to go to a comic show, one more about dealers and maybe an artist alley - not one of these huge one's with tv stars etc. and go looking for some books. That would be fun, I might just go to see what war comics I could find or something esoteric. See if I could get a full run of Arak or some Weird Western Tales after Jonah Hex got his own book. I think I'd also enjoy a big stack of old 70s DC mystery comics.
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