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Craig Earl
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| Posted: 21 April 2024 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | 1
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I had a memory of something that I used to do as a kid. By the time I was 15, I had around 1400 comics. All bagged and boxed, I also kept a book logging what issues I had (what can I say, I lived in a quiet town!).
My 'party trick' was asking my mum to pick any random issue from the book. I would then describe in detail what was on the cover, then go up to my room and bring down said issue to gasps of amazement (or maybe sympathy).
Even now, I remember an awful lot of these comic covers just by hearing the issue number.
Anyone have something similar to indicate their love of the medium?*
*(please say yes)
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John Byrne
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My love takes the form of not bagging and boxing the comics.
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James Woodcock
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I had my comics listed on index cards & could say the plot to every X-Men
comic & many others by issue number.
Can’t do that now but I could when I was young.
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I... didn't do anything with them besides read them. I'm un-super!
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Craig Earl
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My love takes the form of not bagging and boxing the comics.
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I get that, JB. I still used to reread the books regularly, I just loved 'em so much that I wanted to preserve them as much as possible (my X-Men's and Daredevil's showed more wear than most). Plus, I had two brothers who weren't into comics and took real delight in drawing on the covers or colouring in the Spider-Man boxed mask image (grrrrrrr).
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I've never been very good with remembering comics by their issue number. When they finally had a comics expert on "Beat The Geeks" when I was a kid, it saddened me that so many questions involved just that.
Even now, the guy at my comics shop is always telling me about key issues he's sold or is looking for, and they almost never mean anything to me.
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“ My love takes the form of not bagging and boxing the comics.”*********** JB - How many comics would you guesstimate you have? How do you store them?
For me, I have about 3,000 comics, all bagged and boarded, stored in book shelves. About half are high grade Marvels and DCs from ~ 1965 - 1980.
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Matt Reed
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| Posted: 22 April 2024 at 6:03am | IP Logged | 8
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John Byrne wrote:
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While I get the no bagging thing, I don’t the boxing. How do you otherwise store 15K comics if not in boxes? Even if they’re not bagged?
To be perfectly clear and fully transparent, I probably have well over 20K books. All in comic boxes.
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When I was about 15/16 I had the story titles for
the first 50 or so issues of New Teen Titans (the
newsprint edition, not the Baxter one) memorised and
could recite them at will. Can't recall many of them
now. (In a similar vein, later on I could remember
the titles of every episode of Star Trek:TNG. Again
the memory banks must have had a clear out as I can
recall the episodes, but, except for a few keys eps,
very few titles)
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Petter Myhr Ness
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I keep my comics in a bag so that they're better preserved, but the bags are not closed - I take them out and read them. As much as I like collections, nothing beats the feeling of holding a proper comic book in your hands.
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John Byrne
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JB - How many comics would you guesstimate you have? How do you store them?••• Over the past few decades I have slowly reduced the number of actual comics I have, replacing them with trades and omnibus collections. Many—maybe a thousand or so—I had bound in hardcover for easy storage and reference. Obviously, my accumulations are for reading, not resale.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 22 April 2024 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | 12
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I've never been very good with remembering comics by their issue number.••• Same, even with my own work. Many is the time fans have approached me at cons saying “In issue #_____” and I say “Title please!”
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