posted November 21, 2002 11:38 AM            

And with Plastic Man rounding the turn, and Christmas sales in the offing, my archive collection will be increasing by leaps and bounds, pushing the limits of available credit!

posted November 21, 2002 12:23 PM            

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Originally posted by India Ink:
Oy, with The Spririt Archive, vol. 9, this week, and The Shazam! Archive, vol. 3, last week, my collection has ballooned to 68 archives--59 if you don't count the Spirit line.

And with Plastic Man rounding the turn, and Christmas sales in the offing, my archive collection will be increasing by leaps and bounds, pushing the limits of available credit!

But they do look nice on my shelves.

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posted November 21, 2002 12:31 PM            

But, hey...we can QUIT ANY TIME WE WANT!!!

(Sob "Oh God...NO WE CAN'T!!!")

posted November 21, 2002 12:49 PM               

Plas, THUNDER and SPIRIT plus I'll probably feel compelled to buy the JSA/JLA hardcover. Darn it!!

I don't think I've got 68 of these either.

28 plus the 8 Spirits for a total of 36.

68 is a monument more than a bookshelf!!

posted November 21, 2002 07:02 PM               

My name is Chris and I am an Archivaholic.
Cheers!

posted November 21, 2002 07:20 PM            

MY ARCHIVES
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All Star 1-8
Batman 1-3
Batman Dark Knight 1 and 3
Batman in World's Finest 1
Black Canary 1
Golden Age Flash 1
Golden Age Green Lantern 1
Shazam 1-2
Justice League of America 7
Doom Patrol 1
Legion of Superheroes 1,2,5,6,7.

posted November 21, 2002 07:58 PM               

And that doesn't include the 9 Spirit, 2 Tor & 1 Mad which are on a shelf in a different bookcase! That's 86 total, I guess.

posted November 21, 2002 08:16 PM               

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Originally posted by Bgztl:
December may bankrupt me.

Plas, THUNDER and SPIRIT plus I'll probably feel compelled to buy the JSA/JLA hardcover. Darn it!!

I don't think I've got 68 of these either.

28 plus the 8 Spirits for a total of 36.

68 is a monument more than a bookshelf!!

You might have to apply for historical site status!!

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Boy, when I got home I realized I forgot all those one shot Archives. I've got 57 of these puppies.

I am officially a comics geek.

Wow.

posted November 21, 2002 08:29 PM            

I have one shelf reserved for The Spirit Archive series. Right now I keep other books on that shelf (like A Contract with God), but as I get more Spirit volumes I shift those books to other shelves. At some point, I'll have to take up yet another shelf for The Spirit.

I have two shelves for the other archives. One shelf is ostensibly "Golden Age," while the other is supposed to be "Silver Age." But the number of GA archives in my collection is greater than the SA. And then there are volumes that aren't exactly GA or SA--World's Finest, Black Canary, ... So as I get more GA archives I have to shift the remainder down to the SA shelf (Greatest...Stories Ever Told books fill out the rest of this shelf).

posted November 21, 2002 08:55 PM            

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Originally posted by BillNolan:
Pikers! Here:
http://home.attbi.com/~jenolan/archives.jpg

And that doesn't include the 9 Spirit, 2 Tor & 1 Mad which are on a shelf in a different bookcase! That's 86 total, I guess.

- Bill

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posted November 21, 2002 10:09 PM               

Bill, did you purchase the Authority Slipcase, too?
Nice pic!
Chris

posted November 21, 2002 10:23 PM               

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Originally posted by NecessaryImpurity:

Bill, what are the volumes on the bottom shelf, on the right? They all look like oversized slipcases.

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The black ones are the Batman Dailies and Sundays and Superman Dailies and Sundays slipcases. The red one is the the Monster Society of Evil collection.

posted November 21, 2002 10:26 PM               

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Originally posted by chrisccl:
Bill, did you purchase the Authority Slipcase, too?
Nice pic!
Chris

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posted November 21, 2002 10:41 PM               

I only have 37..then I have Tor 1 and GL/GA slipcase...

I have also recently discovered the Heroclix game... My wallet is severely hurting, and so are my monthly floppies.

I'm glad Marvel isn't committed to the Masterwork program....I have no intention of getting The Spirit, Batman or NTT volumes until all the rest are purchased. So at Christmas I'll have 26 more to go to catch up to where I want to be (if I don't purchase any off eBay). Catching up on
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posted November 21, 2002 11:20 PM               

-Steve

posted November 22, 2002 08:01 AM               

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Originally posted by srca1941:
What are the dementions of the shelves you use Bill? It looks about right. I want to get one that will be big enough for my collection to grow, even though that will take a while. (I currently have only 2 archives per month in my budget.)

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All my comic-related bookcases are in our house's smallest bedroom, which is refered to as the "Comic Room" even tho' all the comics are in long boxes on shelves in the basement. Since they are in a real room, we wanted the bookcases to look nice. I got nice, solid wood bookcases at an actual furniture store, not a department store. The kind of furniture that gets delivered and comes built. I wanted the solidness because a whole shelf of archives tends to sag in those particle board bookcases.

These bookcases are 68 inches tall and actually have four shelves (the fourth one has random junk on it and is below the three in the picture). I got ones with only four shelves rather than the standard five because I specifically went looking for ones which could handle the Monster Society of Evil slipcased book. Each shelf is about 30 inches wide and just over 10 inches deep. The bottom two shelves are about 15.5 inches tall and the top two are about 12.5 inches tall. I have four of these bookcases in that room, with the other three holding Marvel stuff, non-archive DC stuff, and stuff from other publishers. Gives me plenty of expansion room for the future.

posted November 22, 2002 09:52 AM               

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Originally posted by BillNolan:

All my comic-related bookcases are in our house's smallest bedroom, which is refered to as the "Comic Room" even tho' all the comics are in long boxes on shelves in the basement.

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My wife calls it the "Cardboard Room".

Personally, I use the stackable folding three shelf units. Two stacked together provide five shelves just under 12" high and 26" wide and a open top shelf that I use for odd sized books.

Four in total hold all my Archives (only missing Blackhawk and Black Canary) and Masterworks with tons of room to spare for the rest of my books.

posted November 22, 2002 01:08 PM               

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Originally posted by James Friel:
--at this point consisting mostly of junk from the 80s and 90s that I haven't been able to liquidate yet.

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posted November 22, 2002 09:15 PM               

The main part of my collection is kept in my basement, which I guess could be called my comic book corner. They are in binders, on standard utility shelves, four of them tall and thin on one wall, and one long and short in the middle of the basement. In-between is a children's drawing table (a nice one rescued from a neighbor's garbage) that is just right to serve as a reading desk, and my downstairs "living room" (three chairs, an end table, a small bookcase displaying my action figures, and a TV). On top of the short shelf is my TPB collection, my Pure Excitement Comics CDs, a Superman cookie jar, and a box where I keep page covers to put my comics in. On the other side of it is my drawing table and a nice old typewriter stand that holds my art supplies, and can easily be slid out of the way. The rest of the basement is more or less a typical one, laundry area, pantry, storage, tools and workbenches, that sort of thing. All of it is unfinished, and likely will never be since the furnace ducts make for a low ceiling in places.

-Steve