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Advice from other collectors on how to care for and store your books.

Poll: How does everyone store their comics?

#1 Posted by Punchinello (148 posts) - 5 years, 4 days ago - Show Bio

Sleeves & boards? Ring binders? Clamshell cases? Nothing?

I store my comics in convention clamshell cases, and plastic sleeves + acid free boards in plastic boxes in a cupboard that's just for them.

I'm looking into storing all of my comics in convention/clamshell/etc cases, and interested to hear what others do for storage =)

#2 Posted by Gambler (80653 posts) - 5 years, 4 days ago - Show Bio

Hahahahahaha

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#3 Posted by Zenma (4965 posts) - 5 years, 4 days ago - Show Bio

bob99 says:

"UP MY ASS THAT WORKS HALF THE TIME"

you did that to yourself lmao

#4 Posted by g wiz (35 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

honestly, i think protecting comics is an obsession that i want to stay far away from. i will protect my old ones though

#5 Posted by Terry Handson (1594 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

i laminate mine

i stopped by supergirl because a certain sister of mine stole them

#6 Posted by Paragon (7293 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

Piles on the floor...

#7 Posted by Slinger (7640 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

I throw mine on the floor. I have a carpet of thousands of books, seriously, even collectible ones get destroyed.

#8 Posted by Hawk (15833 posts) - 4 years, 8 months ago - Show Bio

good ones in plastic sleeves in a paper box. Really good ones in hard plastic. Not so goods ones in the bathroom lol

#9 Posted by Punchinello (148 posts) - 4 years, 7 months ago - Show Bio

I pretty much go by exactly what you do, Hawk =)

Good ones in plastic mylar/pro sleeves; the collectible/awesome ones in the Mill Case cases, and the every day/reader's/shite ones in.. nothing, actually!

#10 Posted by conan2099 (86 posts) - 4 years, 6 months ago - Show Bio

In Bags, on boards in boxes.

#11 Posted by castleking (24119 posts) - 4 years, 6 months ago - Show Bio

in a box in a cold damp garage

#12 Posted by Vrakmul (23296 posts) - 4 years, 6 months ago - Show Bio

We put them in a deep bunker in the cellar.

#13 Posted by mrsummers (88 posts) - 4 years, 5 months ago - Show Bio

I keep mine Bagged/Boarded in a shortbox.

#14 Posted by Precise (22845 posts) - 4 years, 5 months ago - Show Bio

Throw them in the closet..

#15 Posted by LordCosmicKing (2629 posts) - 4 years, 5 months ago - Show Bio

bagged boarded in boxes and the kicker find a nice damp corner in the garage.. i like to live dangerously

#16 Posted by Pania (1759 posts) - 4 years, 5 months ago - Show Bio

6 long boxes of bagged and boarded comics in my study closet.

#17 Posted by SuperGamera (565 posts) - 4 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

in a plastic box under my bed

#18 Posted by Vance Astro (88656 posts) - 4 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

On my pc.

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#19 Posted by TheDrifter (26533 posts) - 4 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio
Vance Astro said:
"On my pc."
Ha....

Mine are bagged and boarded in my dresser drawers.
#20 Posted by Vance Astro (88656 posts) - 4 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio
TheDrifter said:
"Vance Astro said:
"On my pc."
Ha....

Mine are bagged and boarded in my dresser drawers.
"
Well the majority of my comics are digital..but I do purchase alot.The bagged and boarded comics are in boxes and the rare ones are on the wall.
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#21 Posted by DeCobray (81 posts) - 4 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio
Vance Astro said:
"On my pc."
*Gasp*

I'm a comic freak, everything must be protected in sleeves (Especially, my Ms. Marvel & Black Panther)
#22 Posted by aztek_the_lost (30738 posts) - 4 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

I throw them all over the floor (the Marvel ones anyway) the Vertigo ones are kept in a special place...away from the prying eyes of thieves gets shifty-eyed and runs to check on his precious children

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#23 Posted by Darkchild (38673 posts) - 4 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio
aztek the lost said:
"I throw them all over the floor (the Marvel ones anyway) the Vertigo ones are kept in a special place...away from the prying eyes of thieves gets shifty-eyed and runs to check on his precious children"
 smacks the sh!t out of Aztek

Read ur pms idiot
#24 Posted by Vance Astro (88656 posts) - 4 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio
DeCobray said:
"Vance Astro said:
"On my pc."
*Gasp*

I'm a comic freak, everything must be protected in sleeves (Especially, my Ms. Marvel & Black Panther)"

Vance Astro said:
Well the majority of my comics are digital..but I do purchase alot.The bagged and boarded comics are in boxes and the rare ones are on the wall."
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#25 Posted by aztek_the_lost (30738 posts) - 4 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio
Darkchild said:
"aztek the lost said:
"I throw them all over the floor (the Marvel ones anyway) the Vertigo ones are kept in a special place...away from the prying eyes of thieves gets shifty-eyed and runs to check on his precious children"
 smacks the sh!t out of Aztek

Read ur pms idiot"
I responded...and posted in your thread :D
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#26 Posted by EvilAuthor (18 posts) - 4 years, 3 months ago - Show Bio

I don't really do anything special. I keep my comics in the plastic sleeves they come in and store them in order in a wooden box under my bed.
I actually read my comics so I don't want them to be too hard to get to when I want them.

#27 Posted by The Jeff (289 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

I board and bag mine, keep them in standard long boxes in my bedroom. I have 7 boxes and hope to have over 10 by the end of the year.

#28 Posted by Fresh Prince (4916 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio
I stuff them up in a big box
#29 Posted by Kurrent (14036 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio
conan2099 said:
"In Bags, on boards in boxes."
ME TOO

#30 Posted by MrMiracle77 (1574 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio

Bag-Board-Box is a good way to go.  Modern paper certainly preserves better than the old newsprint.

They are book, and they are honest works of art, so I try to preserve them as such.

#31 Posted by Kid Deadpool (39 posts) - 4 years, 2 months ago - Show Bio
Slinger said:
"I throw mine on the floor. I have a carpet of thousands of books, seriously, even collectible ones get destroyed."
Well, there's a waste of $$$.

I do the bag-board-box thing.
#32 Posted by G Bird (1278 posts) - 3 years, 24 days ago - Show Bio
@castleking said:
" in a box in a cold damp garage "
LOL that made me seriously laugh out loud, and scared my girlfriend.
#33 Posted by Count_ZeroOR (95 posts) - 3 years, 23 days ago - Show Bio

Bagged, boarded, and in short-boxes in the closet - though I should probably find a better storage place for my comics... and I probably should sort them again (or maybe move to long-boxes).

#34 Posted by G Bird (1278 posts) - 3 years, 22 days ago - Show Bio

Where does everybody get short boxes, long boxes, bags, and boards? Is there like comic supply stores or something?

#35 Posted by Braxxis7 (245 posts) - 3 years, 22 days ago - Show Bio

in boards sleeves and boxes in my closets
#36 Posted by Theodore (3445 posts) - 3 years, 22 days ago - Show Bio

a few are in sleeves, if they came that way, they are stack up in a milk crate.

#37 Posted by -Eclipse- (7039 posts) - 3 years, 22 days ago - Show Bio

I have these big folder/ring binder thingies. Two big blue ones, and three slightly smaller ones, red, green and black. I used to fit all my comics in there, but now I've got too many, lol 
 
Now I keep some of the older ones I don't read much stuffed into a big box under my bed... xP 
 
My folders, however, are colour-coded. Big blue ones are old Spider-man, red one is recent Spider-man. Green one is Pet Avengers (formerly Hulk and Immortal Iron Fist) and Black is Batman AND Batman and Robin, lol

#38 Posted by shadowknight666 (20776 posts) - 1 year, 3 months ago - Show Bio

Bagged and Boarded, Arranged inside a custom made box that is Filled with Moisture absorption packets, At room temperature.

#39 Posted by Queso6p4 (1050 posts) - 11 months, 29 days ago - Show Bio

Bagged and boarded but I may have to grab some silica packets just to be safe.

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