shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Jan 2, 2022 13:16:14 GMT -5
I vaguely recall there being a thread like this waaaaay back at the old Classic Comics section of CBR: what is the first and last comic in your collection?
Will we all start with Abe Sapian and end with Zot, or will how we organize our collections and what we keep in it yield some more interesting results?
My collection is organized in a way that really doesn't make any sense to anyone but me. It goes from DC, to Marvel, to Small Press, to Archie, to Dell/Gold Key, Disney (classic), Disney (modern), Valiant (classic) and Valiant (modern), but my golden age books and magazines are sprinkled wherever weight distribution permits.
So my collection goes from a DC stamp collection released from the US Post office in 2005 to X-O Manowar (modern Valiant) #29.
How 'bout you?
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jan 2, 2022 13:27:16 GMT -5
Aargh! (Mad Love one-shot) to Zot #36.
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Post by The Cheat on Jan 2, 2022 13:50:53 GMT -5
If it was alphabetical, Abe Sapien to Zenith.
It's actually 100 Bullets to Final Crisis since my shelves seems to have naturally evolved to be:
Non-big 2, by author. Hellboy & co by date. Conan & Kull by date. Big 2 by character. Big 2 events by date.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2022 13:59:51 GMT -5
Action 310 to World’s Finest 300 on an A-Z basis (X-Men is under “Uncanny” in my database ). Adventure 59 as the earliest chronologically, numerous collected editions for most current.
I use collection software that can show me different “views” of organization (era based, publisher, a-z titles, etc.), and then retrieving to read is just based on box number assignment.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 2, 2022 16:56:17 GMT -5
I have my comics MOSTLY alphabetical, but also a bit by title group... so for instance Avengers event and solo books I only have a couple of are in the 'Avengers Minis and solos' section, Batman and Detective (and Superman and Action) are together, things like that. There's also some misc sections by publisher at the end.
I also have a spreadsheet that's pretty up to date (I updated it 2-3 times a year for most stuff, ebay purchases go in immediately so I don't mess up)
The actual A to Z.. starts with 52 (and other numerical titles) and ends with Young Heroes in Love
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 2, 2022 17:00:13 GMT -5
This presupposes I have a clue what funnybooks I own. Probably Action to Zot! But who knows?
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Post by MDG on Jan 2, 2022 17:41:05 GMT -5
My system is all over the place. The bulk is short boxes with DCs up to about the time Kirby left. Another short box and a half is mainly first generation undergrounds, but also includes things like Eightball and Optic Nerve. Another box or so of pre-80s books sorted by company.
Then a long box of 80s DCs and another of 80s and later Indies. A short box with Crisis, Dark Knight, and other deluxe format or "important" series. (I've pretty much sold or given away pretty much all my Marvels except for Marvels.)
Magazine- sized stuff is a real mess.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 2, 2022 18:54:48 GMT -5
Currently my collection is stored in related groups of titles: Batman Family, DC Silver Age, DC Bronze Age, Marvel war and western, etc., etc., but I'm stromgly considering reordering it alphabetically. If I do, it will begin with Action Comics #254 and end with X-Men and Micronauts #4.
Now if we're talking about my virtual collection, it's organized by publisher with the titles in alphabetical order.
Cei-U! I summon the madness to my method!
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Post by badwolf on Jan 2, 2022 20:07:40 GMT -5
Mine are strictly alphabetically, with a little fudging for X-Men since it changed its name. Numbers at the start, so
30 Days of Night: Beyond Barrow #1
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Zombies vs. Robots vs. Amazons #3
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Post by speakerdad on Jan 2, 2022 20:17:34 GMT -5
Alphabetically, Action Comics #267 - #Zero Hour: Crisi in Time 4.
Titles I am actively collecting are stored in shelving and then moved to storage boxes upon completion. "Completed" for me means aquiring the issues / runs I am interested in.
For example, I'll never have an Action Comics #1, but I did piece together a run of Action from Jan 1970 - Dec 1979, completing the decade and into storage they went!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 2, 2022 20:46:29 GMT -5
Well, I don't have a print collection, anymore; but, when I did it was A-1 to Zorro.
If I went by what I have in digital format, it would be A-1 to Zot.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2022 20:48:34 GMT -5
Doing a best guess here, as there are lots of moving parts on how I sort and store things. If we are just doing singles and not putting numbers or apostrophes before the letter A when alphabetizing the way GCD does, Abraham Stone is first (I have Abe Sapien in trade not singles). Zot would be last (I have 1-10 in singles, the black and white stuff in trade.
However my books are divvied up into lots of small subsections-D&D related comics are on my stationary store spinner rack (not comic sized but fits comics). DC books are in file cabinets. Marvels are separate from the others in short boxes. Comics based on licensed properties are all together regardless of publisher. Indies are mostly together in short boxes. Conan comics are by themselves in Conan graphic shortboxes up in the game room, not down in the finished basement room with the rest of the comics. Also upstairs are all the magazine sized comics in mag boxes in the closet up there, and all my trades and hard covers are upstairs divided up. Marvels are together alphabetically by title, DC together alphabetically by title, indies are alphabetical by creator, writer first artist second if not done by a single cartoonist. Down in the basement there are several shelves that hold "special collections" on their shelves displayed covers out using short box lids lengthwise to display the front cover in each row, these collections include Atlas, Archie Red Circle, Will Eisner's Spirit, Our Army at War/Sgt. Rock, Ghost Rider, Jonny Quest, Indiana Jones, Scooby Doo, EC, All in Color for a Dime (i.e. all my comics regardless of publisher that have a 10 cent cover price), Devil with a Red Dress, and a few more. I also have a few collections that have their own short box-Usagi and Groo share one, Hawkman solo books/features have their own short box, Toth and Baker books have a box of their own, small press books/self-published books have their own box, comic reference comics (indexes, Who's Who and the like, are separate), etc. My GCD catalogs reflect the microcollections not the macrocollections, so I don't have a true alphabetized list of my entire collection, hence the best guess at the beginning.
-M
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 2, 2022 21:06:53 GMT -5
That's a fun concept!
First comic in the first longbox: Action comics #1 (a facsimile, obviously),
Last comic on the last lonbox : X-Men #30 (the marriage between Scott an Jean).
Vertigo, Valiant and Conan comics are stored separately.
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Post by shaxper on Jan 2, 2022 22:54:00 GMT -5
Currently my collection is stored in related groups of titles: Batman Family, DC Silver Age, DC Bronze Age, Marvel war and western, etc., etc., Interesting. I once considered doing it like that. What is your cut-off for Silver/Bronze age DC, or do you take it on a title-by-title basis?
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Post by shaxper on Jan 2, 2022 22:55:49 GMT -5
Vertigo, Valiant and Conan comics are stored separately. I don't think I knew you were a big Valiant fan! Original universe, new stuff, or both?
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