posted February 15, 2003 11:58 AM               

I hate seeing anything ruined (I always cringe when I watch children in school or in libraries cutting up magazines to make collages or whatever.)

I guess I find it superficial, like calling comic books "pamphlets or graphic novels."

They are "comic books"

posted February 15, 2003 12:14 PM               

And it's not like I'm binding Silver Age or Golden Age books (although I might consider it if I had complete runs in nice shape). For Pete's sake, I put together a book called "The Complete J2" of all things. It's not like those J2 and Whild Thing issues are highly sought after. I'm not binding something which could be "worth something" to my heirs someday. In fact, custom bound volumes tend to fetch a nice sum on ebay, so I might be improving their worth!

posted February 15, 2003 02:27 PM            

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Originally posted by BillNolan:
Personally, I'm sick of looking at the long-boxes filled with comics taking up space in my basement. I'm taking the stuff I really like and preserving it in a much more convenient and presentable format. At least with my current lifestyle, once a book is bagged and put away in a box in the basement, it might as well be in another state, as far as I'm concerned, access-wise. Now the "good stuff" is in a nice, sturdy format I can pull down off the bookshelf whenever I want to reread it.

And it's not like I'm binding Silver Age or Golden Age books (although I might consider it if I had complete runs in nice shape). For Pete's sake, I put together a book called "The Complete J2" of all things. It's not like those J2 and Whild Thing issues are highly sought after. I'm not binding something which could be "worth something" to my heirs someday. In fact, custom bound volumes tend to fetch a nice sum on ebay, so I might be improving their worth!

- Bill

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I agree with everything you just wrote, Bill. As for improving their worth, I bet I could put a nice F/VF run of Kirby's Demon on eBay and it wouldn't attract much interest--everybody's got 'em. But were I to put my handsome bound volume of these same issues up for bids? I'd be willing to bet it'd be a different story.

posted February 15, 2003 11:41 PM            

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Originally posted by BillNolan:
16603,

They don't take the comics apart at all. It's all there, ads and all. They stack the comics up, sew them together as-is, and bind that sewn package in a hardcover.

- Bill

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Ah, thanks for the clarification Bill.

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posted February 16, 2003 12:03 AM               

I was always thrilled as a kid to go to the library and get my hands on copies of 'Superman From The 30's To the 70's' or lengthy comic strip collections of Buck Rogers or Little Orphan Annie and read these storylines in one attractive package. So why not put together our own hardcover collections with exactly what we want?

posted February 16, 2003 10:45 PM            

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Originally posted by Jason Blood:
...After a some intial confusion, the bindery and I now have a pretty mechanical relationship. Amidst all the medical journals and such they do for libraries, I'm The Comic Book Guy (ouch!). Every 2 to 3 weeks I pick up my order and drop another off. I'm paying considerably less than $50 a volume, however.

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Jason,

What bindery service do you use?

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posted February 18, 2003 02:44 PM            

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Originally posted by Registered Member# 16603:
Jason,

What bindery service do you use?

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posted February 19, 2003 12:32 AM               

I'm not buying comics for my heirs or for resale, so condition be damned.