What Do You Do With Your Comics?

[King Darkness]

pmtz2005-Your sig kicks ass!!!!!!

 

[The Mike]

Read, Bagged, Boarded and Boxed. The ones I get signed from Cons get framed and the Japanese Hentai ones get made love to over and over again.

 

[Eli26]

I sold all my old Marvel comics ever since the digital collections popped up on DVD. I collected through Civil War but have not bought any since. I have a few key issues graded and even have one that makes a nice addition to my Sideshow stuff:

Do you like Iron Man?

 

[pmtz2005]

pmtz2005-Your sig kicks ass!!!!!!

Thanks man...yeah

 

[The Craw]

pmtz2005-Your sig kicks ass!!!!!!

i agree. it needs audio, though.

 

[Morbach]

I only collect a couple series'. I usually read them once and then put them away to collect in a crate. I've been mostly reading graphic novels lately,like The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and it was great.

 

[Deadly Dagger]

Bag them, board them, box them, and alphabetically and numerically store them in white long boxes like any good fanboy. I know they are not, and never will be, worth jack crap. But anything I am going to waste $30-45 a week on is going to be saved and put back for my kids to enjoy as I have. they are too dang expensive to throw out or give away. Basically I treat them the same way I do dvds or anything I am going to spend my money on. I take care of them.

Ditto...and I'm a variant whore.

 

[Ultimate Weapon]

I don't collect too many comics anymore and I'm pretty selective about the issues I do purchase. I try to keep myself limited to no more than four titles at any given time - usually it's fewer. It basically boils down to Hellboy, Batman and Daredevil give or take depending on the storyline, though these three have been pretty consistent in quality. I don't buy comics for investment, but I do take care of them as I do with any other "collectible" item. I read them, bag them in mylar with acid free boards and box them. I'll rummage through from time to time and dig some out to read again - always fun on a lazy weekend day.

 

[pmtz2005]

Ditto...and I'm a variant whore.

I try to grab all the variants I can as well.....

 

[Reefer Shark]

I bag & board the few single issues I get nowadays. I only keep certain series (Conan is realy the only current one). The rest eventually go to my nephews.

My focus is more on TPB's these days, and I keep those on a bookshelf in our room (gonna need another bookshelf soon).

 

[Batty]

I also stopped buying comic a few years ago. Too much money and not enough time to read them all.

There are over 10,000 comics in my collection going back to the Silver Age. I've collected Marvel, DC and all sorts of independents. I do have a some signed books by people like Frank Miller, Stan Lee, Neil Gaiman, The Hernandez Brothers, Jim Lee, Michael Turner, Mike Mignola and a few others.

And I've never collected a CGC book. If I can't open it and read it, I don't want it.

 

[Darth Snoopy]

And I've never collected a CGC book. If I can't open it and read it, I don't want it.

AMEN, Brother!

 

[customizerwannabe]

CGC books are for non-comic collectors. They are for investors. If you can't open it, who the hell would want it? I thing the CGC is lame as hell.

 

[ca35]

Read them, bag them, hide them away in a box till I'm ready to throw them on e-bay.

 

[RJMacReady16]

CGC books are for non-comic collectors. They are for investors. If you can't open it, who the hell would want it? I thing the CGC is lame as hell.

I have a couple that I wouldn't want to read anyway b/c I have the TPB, (like Marvel's Conan #1) that look simply awesome in the CGC shell. Plus you can buy frames for the CGC's that are pretty sweet.

For older comics I can totally understand getting them graded.

Every book in my collection though? No thanks.

 

[pmtz2005]

Signed stuff I like to leave alone...like I said I still don't have any cgc comics yet. Doesn't mean I won't buy any. Over 10,000 comics is pretty awesome. Who knows later on down the line a few of those im pretty sure will make you some money....

 

[pmtz2005]

Stuff like this trips me out...go to ebay search hero initiative Hulk #1 original Dale Keown
look at what the bid is at. So I definitely agree that some comics will make you money. But which ones? Will they already be in your collection? I hope some of the stuff I have, if I ever sell it, will at least make a little bling for me...

 

[ghettoenhanced]

The comic auction you were linking to is actually a piece of original art being auctioned off for a charity. They also did this for Ultimate Spider-Man #100. It not that hard to see why the bid id so high, it's for charity and it's Dale Keown doing a kick ass original Hulk pencil.

 

[pmtz2005]

The comic auction you were linking to is actually a piece of original art being auctioned off for a charity. They also did this for Ultimate Spider-Man #100. It not that hard to see why the bid id so high, it's for charity and it's Dale Keown doing a kick ass original Hulk pencil.

yeah I guess they're all like that the hero initiatives huh, I totally understand charity....well I wonder if the winner ever sells it will he make his money back...

 

[ghettoenhanced]

Being that it's a correctly set up charity auction, the buyer can write it off his/her taxes.

BTW, you should have seen how much the Ultimate SM 100 cover Todd McFarlane did for them went for... it went for $6,701. But it's not like you are gonna see him drawing for Marvel again anytime soon.

At least I got to hold it: