Comic book storage

[Noon]

So I need to reorganise how I keep my comics, and I figured this would be the place to get ideas.

I don't have that many, just around a hundred or so that right now are all jumbled on a shelf my cat likes to lie on. I considered getting fold up plastic crates, but want something more space economic.

Any ideas? How do you guys keep them?

 

[Mee]

I keep mine in shoeboxes on a shelf in my closet.

 

[Parker]

Standard cardboard fold-out boxes for me, you can find them at any comic book shop. Definitely keep them off the floor though, especially if you have rugs. Silverfish will eat your freakin' comic collection right out from under you without a second thought.

 

[CyberFaust]

i keep mine in folders and in individual plastic sheets

 

[Lord Valumart]

cheap cardboard magazine boxes...but all comics are bagged and boarded first...with yellow stickies that signal change of book, pink for change of arc, and blue for mini series...

 

[Kritish]

Standard cardboard fold-out boxes for me, you can find them at any comic book shop. Definitely keep them off the floor though, especially if you have rugs. Silverfish will eat your freakin' comic collection right out from under you without a second thought.

Yeah, I found that out the hard way. I lost several Ghost Rider comics from those little ****s.

 

[Parker]

cheap cardboard magazine boxes...but all comics are bagged and boarded first...with yellow stickies that signal change of book, pink for change of arc, and blue for mini series...

Wow, does that make me feel like a mediocre collector...

 

[Kritish]

cheap cardboard magazine boxes...but all comics are bagged and boarded first...with yellow stickies that signal change of book, pink for change of arc, and blue for mini series...

Nerdtastic

 

[04nbod]

cheap cardboard magazine boxes...but all comics are bagged and boarded first...with yellow stickies that signal change of book, pink for change of arc, and blue for mini series...

geek

mine are shoved in my wardrobe. i'm going to put them in folders with plastic sheets though

 

[Noon]

what the hell are silverfish and why would fish be in a rug

please excuse my ignorance

 

[Lord Valumart]

Wow, does that make me feel like a mediocre collector...

Nerdtastic

geek

to be fair it's only a recent alteration cause my mum was getting at me to clean up my crap...so i did it to a fantasticaly geeky standard if i do say so

 

[CyberFaust]

cheap cardboard magazine boxes...but all comics are bagged and boarded first...with yellow stickies that signal change of book, pink for change of arc, and blue for mini series...

ultimately cool

 

[Kritish]

what the hell are silverfish and why would fish be in a rug

please excuse my ignorance

It's a bug...

 

[Noon]

Not sure about boxes, take up too much space and less accesable, I take out and re-read my books quite a lot.

I remember in malcolm in the middle stevie had his comic books hanging on the back of a door in a plastic display thing, but I have no idea where to buy something like that. For me that sort of thing would be perfect because it displays them nicely and takes up very little space.

 

[Noon]

Spoiler

It's a bug...

Ew! Do you get them in the uk!?! I can't stand bugs, ick, just looking at that makes me feel sick.

 

[Lord Valumart]

Not sure about boxes, take up too much space and less accesable, I take out and re-read my books quite a lot.

I remember in malcolm in the middle stevie had his comic books hanging on the back of a door in a plastic display thing, but I have no idea where to buy something like that. For me that sort of thing would be perfect because it displays them nicely and takes up very little space.

but think of that collectable spider-man wallpaper getting holes in it with pins....or being ripped by sticky tac....or something far worse heppening to it

 

[Kritish]

Ew! Do you get them in the uk!?! I can't stand bugs, ick, just looking at that makes me feel sick.

I don't know, you'll have to ask someone else about that.

 

[Lord Valumart]

It's a bug...

looks like my ex's brother.....

zing

 

[Noon]

but think of that collectable spider-man wallpaper getting holes in it with pins....or being ripped by sticky tac....or something far worse heppening to it

How do you know about my wallpaper

 

[Lord Valumart]

How do you know about my wallpaper

took a wild guess...

plus shouldn't your walls be covered in posters and crap?

 

[Dew k. Mosi]

I have my collection in drawer boxes. They are file cabinet style boxes specifically meant for comic books.

I have ten boxes. All books are bagged and bored. I have them arranged by category (X-Men, Spider-Man, Etc) then each category is arranged by title (Uncanny X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, New X-Men, Etc.) then each title is in numerical order. I have a seperate section for completed series (Mutant X, Quicksilver, Longshot, etc.)

 

[Kritish]

All I've still got is some Ghost Rider and Max punishers.

 

[Noon]

took a wild guess...

plus shouldn't your walls be covered in posters and crap?

I don't see why they should be, even though they are...

but anyway, my room actually looks like this

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b271/Oddisee/PICT0251.jpg

 

[Lord Valumart]

I don't see why they should be, even though they are...

but anyway, my room actually looks like this

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b271/Oddisee/PICT0251.jpg

eeewwww....overlaping

yeh...go for your wall style thing...but i'd say that that would be more for special comics, like AF15 or first appearance of dr doom and the likes of that. normal comics should go in boxes IMO.

and i now see that my room is geekier than i thought

 

[tzarinna]

All books are in boxes from when I moved. Some are in plastic but that's because they came with them.
New ones I've bought are just laying about.
I'm hoping when I buy a house I'll have a better system.