Comments on Again With the Comics: Bitching 'Bout Bagging, Boarding and Boxing Books

"As far as CGC and slabbing, if those people all d...

2010-01-04T22:03:12.568-07:00

"As far as CGC and slabbing, if those people all disappeared from the world, it would be a better place."

[Begins slow clap, stands up, clapping getting louder and more rapid...]

I box my comics, no bag or board. Of course they ...

2010-01-02T17:59:15.705-07:00

I box my comics, no bag or board. Of course they lay around in piles around my desk for weeks first! I also appreciate the extra space in my boxes sans box, board. And yeah, I also have a hard time imagining the paper not lasting longer than I will.

I collected baseball cards as a young person with a hard core belief that they would be worth actual money someday. They aren't (for the most part). And they are nowhere near as fun as comics. I collect my comics because they are fun, never because they might have monetary value. IMHO this should be the only reason to buy them.

I could have written this. (Wait...did I?) I used ...

2010-01-01T13:06:28.503-07:00

I could have written this. (Wait...did I?) I used to be a fanatic about placing my books in bags with boards and taping them as soon as I had read them...I loved how shiny and new and flat and pretty they looked and they stood up so nice and erect in my boxes...but then I read somewhere a comic fan say he never bagged or boarded his books and loved that he could pull a book and read it without unwrapping it first. I immediately pulled my comics out of boards and bags and have never looked back. I save money on the supplies, have more room in my boxes for the comics and can pull out any book or batch of books and read immediately without unwrapping or re-wrapping them and I love it. I'm a comic READER and ENJOYER and am only a collector in that I keep most of the books I read because I love to look at them, re-read them and reference then when drawing my favorite characters. I have switched to Comic Drawers, which allow me to file books without having to un-stack and re-stack boxes, but my books accumulate un-filed for several weeks so it's still an hour or three of re-shuffling books when I finally get around to filing them. But I do the same thing: alphabetize them first, split them into their letter piles A-Z and then begin the process of filing. I call it "playing with my comics" and, laborious though it is, I still love it. I may not know what my collection is actually worth, but I know what it's worth to me :-) (Confession: I DO keep an excel spread sheet of what I have/need/want, but only because I have bought and sold and given away and bought back books so many times my memory is shoddy and I never remember what I currently own as opposed to what I once owned and no longer do.)

Shock and horrify? Not me. It sounds to me like yo...

2010-01-01T12:00:13.006-07:00

Shock and horrify? Not me. It sounds to me like you actually enjoy your comics. I'm with you on that. Mine are in boxes, a drawer or two, and on a few shelves. I bag and board when I can, especially if it's a really good book or one that would be very hard to replace.

As far as CGC and slabbing, if those people all disappeared from the world, it would be a better place.