What does YOUR comic room/area look like?!?

[habib]

I need serious help!

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/kammion/Room2.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/kammion/Room1.jpg

[fulltimer56]

Lord, he even has a couch in his room!! I'll have to find my camora (sp) and take some pics but I don't have no couch in my home office/computer room/comic room/junk room/etc!!! :lol:

Linda

[marvelguy]

What do you mean you need help? I can help ya out if you would be willing to move that stuff out and give it to me. :lol: My room is kinda like that but I will get around to organizing when I get the legal size filing cabinets. I have seen those cabs online with people storing books in them. One filing cab can hold about 1500-2000 books. It is so easy to locate the books plus it saves space. If you have a dolly underneath, you can move it places.

[Greg]

Wow, that's a dedicated room. Just have a few boxes that are stored under my bed.

[jaeldubyoo]

You think you need help? I've got 45 boxes in three different locations. The bulk I have at home (35 boxes). They occupy several cabinets in the garage, a corner of my office and three closets. There are some boxes at my brother's and mother's places. And I have piles scattered about. I cringe whenever I try to find anything. I've been promising my wife for years that I would organize everything and sell off most of my comics.

[SILLYSHIP--pirate eye--]

Oooohw That is ugly... But beautiful at the same time. I wish I had that much space. I have about 30 longs at home right now, most are stored upstairs, I can't get to them easily but I have 8 downstairs for selling and one and a short in my bed area for reading. Don't read much with school and art and internet sales taking up most of my time, but I did just finish "Anita Bomba" 1-4. Which is really good so fa if anybody wants to know.

[camper49]

I remember seeing this thread somewhere before and I asked a fellow member to post my pics due to my not knowing how to do it.
But now I have the pics on PhotoBucket so here they are again as clickable thumbnails.

The room looks basically the same today as it did back then.
Every single book catalogued, graded (more or less) and accounted for.

The 108-gal aquarium is STILL there on the floor. It will be set up as our 2nd marine tank someday....

http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/th_7morecgc4fi.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/7morecgc4fi.jpg)
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/th_6cgcmags8fg.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/6cgcmags8fg.jpg)
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/th_5treasurybooks0vu.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/5treasurybooks0vu.jpg)
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/th_4roomside1hd.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/4roomside1hd.jpg)
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/th_3room36vj.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/3room36vj.jpg)
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/th_2room22gn.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/2room22gn.jpg)
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/th_1room12al.jpg (http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d64/CAMPER49/1room12al.jpg)

[habib]

Camper I hate you......

but only because my room should look like yours!

Bravo!!

[rowand]

Like a garage, only without a car. 63 long boxes before I stopped buying them.

[Greg]

Does homeowners insurance cover that many comics?

[slucas76]

Dang. I should show my wife these pictures.

I have about 300 comics sitting on my closet floor right now and she tells me that this amount is "ludicrous". :lol:

[OWAC]

some pictures of my comic room
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[Hoss]

Wow, OWAC, that is pretty cool. If you take the photos of your nice neat comic room and then picture the exact opposite, that's my comic room.

[OWAC]

Wow, OWAC, that is pretty cool.


thanks
:wink:
here is another picture(with some star wars toys)

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[habib]

OWAC.....great comic room!!

Very organized.....love it!

And a big welcome to the Comics Corral!!

[habib]

OK.....an update to my OP.

Views of all four corners of my comic room 5 1/2 years later......as you can see.....even more clutter. The couch and the desk had to go to make more room for the good stuff!!

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/kammion/xrroom3.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/kammion/xrroom4.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/kammion/xrroom1.jpg

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/kammion/xrroom2.jpg

It will be a fun room to go through in my retirement years.......

[habib]

And if all that isn't bad enough here is what can be found next to the computer in that room........

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/kammion/xrroom5.jpg

[Capitalrecoveryman]

I'll help you go through it all. Looks like fun. :)

[marvelguy]

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b125/kammion/xrroom2.jpg



Is that an Ash statue on the right as I spied with my eyes?

[nocutename]

I want to rummage through that room!

[Hepcat]

some pictures of my comic room
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Wow! Did you build those shelves yourself? How many comics do they hold? What's your main collecting focus?

:confused:

[Quato]

My comic roon is a disorganized mess. People ask me if I'm worried about having some of my expensive books stolen. I tell them that I can't even find them so I'm not worried about a theif finding them. As an example, I looked in a box one day and saw a copy of the Comics Buyers Guide with half the cover torn off. It was an unsold copy a store was going to throw away. I said to myself, I don't need this, I'm going to toss it. On a whim I flipped open the pages and there was a Hulk #5 from the early 60's sandwiched between the pages. I thought "Ooops!'. Then I remembered slipping it between the pages a few years earlier so it would be protected for the drive home from the comic shop.

Q

[toz1960]

I'll help you go through it all. Looks like fun. :)


I want to rummage through that room!
Okay,it's agreed.We all pick a date and meet at Habib's house for a good rummaging.

[habib]

Okay,it's agreed.We all pick a date and meet at Habib's house for a good rummaging.

lol.....we may need everyone here at the Corral to go though that mess....and it would still take forever to go through it all!

[nocutename]

I have been in garages that look close to your room. They take forever to go through but are tons of fun. I think you have better stuff.

[pasnat54]

The comics in my garage are fairly well organized. However, if you want to try crawling over the obsolete electronic equipment, old furniture, cans of spray paint/cleansers/oil cans/old rugs/VHS tapes I haven't gotten around to throwing out/Christmas decorations and other obstacles to reach them, you're welcome to try.

Actually, the garage is in relatively good shape. The main obstacle is a bunch of boxes I've been saving for when my sister decides she wants to sell her collection of Power Ranger and The Simpsons toys, including rare prototypes she got when working for Fox and Bandai.

[Duffman_Comics]

My comic roon is a disorganized mess. People ask me if I'm worried about having some of my expensive books stolen. I tell them that I can't even find them so I'm not worried about a theif finding them. As an example, I looked in a box one day and saw a copy of the Comics Buyers Guide with half the cover torn off. It was an unsold copy a store was going to throw away. I said to myself, I don't need this, I'm going to toss it. On a whim I flipped open the pages and there was a Hulk #5 from the early 60's sandwiched between the pages. I thought "Ooops!'. Then I remembered slipping it between the pages a few years earlier so it would be protected for the drive home from the comic shop.

Q

This is why professional Deceased Estate Sale purchasers will go through EVERYTHING in an Estate. Comic books may hold valuable stamps, magazines might have comic books, socks may have jewellery or coins.

Nothing is left unexamined.

I'm a fan of the "in plain sight - but good luck finding it" philosophy. Here's a few pics from a while back. In the process of reorganising and will post results:

It's a large, detached building, a little larger than a single car garage - and has its own toilet and shower.

From the middle of the room, racks (short boxes) left

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u158/pwing75/Room2.jpg

The bookcase end in the above pic becomes this, turning left:

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u158/pwing75/Room1.jpg

Shot of the front window. Before you ask, the blinds are almost permanently closed to reduce fading.

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u158/pwing75/Room3.jpg

There's much more to the room. At the moment the short box total is over 80, plus a bunch shelved/unsorted/cabinet filed.

[habib]

Great stuff Peter!!

Wish I was half as organized......Love the bookshelf contents.....The EC reprint volumes are wonderful and the "EC Horror Library" is a hard to find fantastic hardback book (I used to have a copy but can't remember if I still do or not?!?)

Can't wait to see updated pics when you finish reorganizing!!

[Duffman_Comics]

Great stuff Peter!!

Wish I was half as organized......Love the bookshelf contents.....The EC reprint volumes are wonderful and the "EC Horror Library" is a hard to find fantastic hardback book (I used to have a copy but can't remember if I still do or not?!?)

Can't wait to see updated pics when you finish reorganizing!!

Thanks for the kind words, Mark.

Yes, the EC volumes are wonderful. I bought them as they were released and have the lot with the exception of the Mad offering(s). It was a two-edged sword - I loved having the entire run (even black and white didn't bother me - and for some stories it improved the look over the sometimes "muddied" production value printing EC had).

The "Down Side" (if it is one) is that it killed any desire to further collect the originals stone dead.

That EC Library book was bought in the early seventies from the "Anchor" bookshop in Sydney. As you know, back then books about comics were pretty rare so any that came along I eagerly snapped up.

[Quato]

I'm well aware that hidden gems can be discovered at Estate sales. I've heard of people buying books and finding large sums of cash hidden in the pages.

I'm more concerned that double or triple figure rare stuff will be looked at and ignored by the recipients. If someone took my Broadway Video Special Collector's edition #1 into a comic retailer, most will have no idea what it is. It;d get thrown in a dollar box even though Chuck Rozanski sold a copy for $1200. My Atlas copy of My Secret Magazine. has a little wear on it. A comic shop might throw it away if they bought my collection. Only about three surviving copies are known to be out in collector's possession and one was in Steve Geppi's museum. I have a cardboard sleeve that hold 4 issues of Print magazine. Two issues have articles by Max Gaines, the creator of the modern comic format, and one of those two has a bound in Picture Stories From the Bible (EC) comic bound into it. The other, if I'm not mistaken, shows the original art to Wonder Woman #1 before it was published as a comic.

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[Hepcat]

I'm a fan of the "in plain sight - but good luck finding it" philosophy. Here's a few pics from a while back. In the process of reorganising and will post results.

There's much more to the room. At the moment the short box total is over 80, plus a bunch shelved/unsorted/cabinet filed.

I don't see labels on the boxes. Are your comics in strict alphabetic order then or do you have some other organized filing system?

:confused:

[Duffman_Comics]

Why, there's no organisation at all - any time I want to find something it's a magically random trip through the collection, delighting in rediscovering long unseen comics until I forget what I was after in the first place. #jester#

Of course, I kid.

Here's a close up of the front of one of the boxes:

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u158/pwing75/BoxDetail.jpg

I don't like writing on the boxes, so each has a discrete number attached. The whole lot are in strict indicia alphabetical order and if I want a particular book, I can usually tell what box it's in by the book peeking from the handle hole.

Yes, I know books can fade through this aperture - but as stated earlier the room is in darkness 90+% of the time.

The downside of this particular OCD behaviour is that when I have to integrate another lot of books, it can mean a "shuffle down" of the entire collection. :shock: That is something of a chore, though I rationalise it by also considering it a "health check" for the collection. #creep#

[vathgar]

For the part of mine that are organized I purposely leave a gap in the boxes (fill the space with a pack or two of backer boards) and I usually have an empty filler (Action to Adventure, Adventure to Amazing, Amazing to Amazing, empty box, Aquaman to Avengers, etc, etc) box every so often so that I don't have to carry everything down the line when I integrate new stuff into it. That, of course, is only part of it. The rest of it (about 200 or so long boxes) is mainly cheapo stuff that eventually I will start selling at shows again so I don't even bother trying to organize it, other than about a third of them that are in a group of nine (6ft table,) twelve (8ft table,) eighteen (two 6ft) and twenty four (two 8 ft) long boxes that are alphanumeric so that all I have to do is grab and go with the cheapies.

Like I said, I typically am not looking to keep stuff very long...

[Duffman_Comics]

Oh, I do leave space in each box, but as the books arrive over the months and years there is the inevitable out-of-room situation.

My last one (about 6 months ago) resulted in the addition of another five short boxes, which of course meant I had books in boxes "unintegrated".

[Hepcat]

The downside of this particular OCD behaviour is that when I have to integrate another lot of books, it can mean a "shuffle down" of the entire collection. :shock: That is something of a chore, though I rationalise it by also considering it a "health check" for the collection. #creep#

It's also good to be "forced" to look at one's comics every so often. They're not meant to be filed away and then forgotten.


#oldie#

[fulltimer56]

some pictures of my comic room
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Oh My GOD! I'm just GREEN! #shehulk# I would LOVE my room to look like that! How did you make it, OWAC??

Linda

[fulltimer56]

I want to rummage through that room!

Oh me too, nocutename, me too.. And to think how neat his booths are at cons!! But it's still neater than mine!! ;-)

Linda

[fulltimer56]

lol.....we may need everyone here at the Corral to go though that mess....and it would still take forever to go through it all!


OK, just got my Mom's van fixed and going back to work... I should have enough money to make that trip in about 6 months.. Who's with me??? ;-)

Linda

[tommyc03]

Good Lord! I thought my system was in dissaray! I have most in filing cabinets and am in the process of moving from the cellar to a room upstairs. I'll have to back to this post when I get a couple of pics.

[custodes]

I mourn now for my lost collection (which I sold and gave away to charity.) My whole house looked like Habibs' room. :-( Although, in my minds eye it was like OWACs' ( greetings new guy.)

It reminds me of the Organized/Disorganized Serial Killers discussions. Are you an Ed Gein and a Richard Chambers or more of a John Wayne Gacy/ Ted Bundy type?

[Duffman_Comics]

Ummm

Where does one go to discuss the characteristics of serial killers?#poke#

[custodes]

Ummm

Where does one go to discuss the characteristics of serial killers?#poke#

Security Sites.

But...Just joking Mr. Bundy. Nice room

[metalfanatic]

"What does YOUR comic room/area look like?!? "

An old closet!

because I store my comics in... my closet!

[pasnat54]

So do I. I have a rack in my closet (I have fairly generous closet space) where I store current books and old books I know I'll be re-reading eventually. The rest of the stuff goes in my garage.

[Hepcat]

Here are some pictures of the comic and magazine cabinet side of my comic room:

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicRoom.jpg


http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/HepcatComicsLazyBoy.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/HepcatCurioComics.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Hepcatcheckingcomics.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicRoomCurioFilingCab.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicRoom.jpg


http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicsLeftSide.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicsLeftSide.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/ComicLeftFileCab.jpg


http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/StyxComics.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/StxyComics2.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/UpperLeftComics.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/Lowerleftcomics-Copy.jpg

My comics are all in Mylites/Arklites backed by Thin X-Tenders/Halfbacks.

I've not yet Mylited my magazine collection though. It's in the third, half the fourth and the fifth row of the cabinet to the right of my comic cabinet. The top row and the second row of this cabinet are presenting false fronts. I've just put up a few high nostalgia comics from 1963 for display purposes. Behind them is just miscellaneous junk. The other half of the fourth row consists of comics waiting to be Mylited. I've run out of Halfbacks and need to put in an order for several hundred comic ones and probably a thousand magazine ones. Hopefully that will be sufficient for at least another ten years.

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/RightComicCabinetFullView.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/RightComicCabinet.jpg

http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g434/Balticprince/RightComicCabinetBottom.jpg

:cool:

[comicfan007]

That's very nice collection.

[comicfan007]

Those storage cabinet are a great idea.

[custodes]

Beautiful room Cat. "Organized."

[Hepcat]

Those storage cabinet are a great idea.

They are 42" wide heavy-duty lateral filing cabinets made by Globe. You have to get heavy duty because of all the weight of packing them solid with comics.

#oldie#