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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
1/28/2018
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Every year someone gets this up and running, what are your goals this year in collecting? Here’s mine.
1st goal is to replace all of my comic boxes with better new boxes. Some of the 60 boxes are beat up, some I have writing on them that have been crossed out numerous times, looking bad.
2nd goal is to replace comics bags and boards with Mylar and fullbacks like I’ve done the past 8 years, so I got the years before using Mylar to go thru. Most likely use halfsbacks to save space, fullbacks you can’t get as many in a box.
3rd goal is to reorganize my comics in boxes by putting them in alphabetical order. My organizing has been poor at times, just putting new buys in one box and not putting in the right boxes. This goal will be done by doing goal one and two. Obliviously this won’t be easy but it really needs to be done.
4th goal is to at least get a few of my original art I’ve bought framed. It sucks that they are stashed away in a closet and hardly look at them.
5th goal is upgrade a few books I have but not in grades I would like. One is Phantom #1, I got two copies but really would like a high grade of it, which I’m finding out is harder than I want it to be. But it is fun to try. Others to upgrade is Batman 155, Batman 232, and Batman 234, which a a lot easy to upgrade.
6th goal is to try to be more selective in what I buy. Really need to reduce the amount bought, more thinking quality of books bought than amount.
7th goal...pay the rent before buying comics each month!!!
What are your goals this year? Would enjoy hearing from you!
edited by Jokerbangedquinn on 1/28/2018
edited by Jokerbangedquinn on 1/28/2018
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
1/29/2018
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Can I comment on your goals before sharing mine?
About your 4th goal - A few years ago, I had 4 pieces of original art framed when Michael's had a 1/2 off framing sale. I put them under UV glass to protect them. That was one of the best things I've ever done with my collection. Comic book people are visual people so getting to see my favorite pieces made me happy. Plus it easier for non-comic book lovers to appreciate my passion for the hobby. The typical response is something like, "That's amazing". I would move that goal up the list.
My goals
1. Continue moving my comics from long boxes to short boxes. Easier to handle and organize.
2. Continue working on my Neal Adams collection. I have all Neal Adams' drawn Batman, need 11 Detectives, 4 Justice Leagues. The Adams' House of Mystery and House of Secrets books are so hard to find in VF and above. Since Neal did mostly DC, the Avengers and X-men books are usually very expensive. Patience Ron patience.
3. This is a bit weird. A few months ago I became obsessed with finding a certain cover. The cover is super common but I didn't realize it until recently. It shows one hero carrying another hero. (Crisis on Infinite Earths 7, Avengers 49, etc) I call it the carrying cover and so far I have bought 31 examples of it. So if you see one let me know. Since I'm the writer for the CPG blog you'll hear about it eventually.
4. Buy some key books that I really like. On the list, Captain America 110, Conan the Barbarian 1, Amazing Spider-man 50, Invincible 1, House of Secrets 92, bought Detective 400 last week! Yay!
5. Don't let my wife know how much I spend on comics. #lifegoals
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Oxbladder Posts: 487
1/30/2018
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Finish paying for my Sideshow statues, fill out more of my want list, try to finally secure a copy of Savage Tales #1 (or at least see one in person), organize my comic room (and house).
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2530
2/2/2018
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When you get down to just a few issues missing of a title do you get excited because it's so close or worried because they are the hard to find issues?
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quinnspuddinjoker Posts: 673
2/3/2018
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Hey it’s tax time, the money I get back I can get some of my artwork framed!
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2/14/2018
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I love this thread.
A lot of my goals are very similar to what many of you have posted already:
1. Save space by converting floppies to TPB's. (There are exceptions to this. I still want to get a full run batman vol.1 and UXM as well as a few others.)
2. Convert long boxes to short ones.
3. Read more of my comics! (Another reason I've decided to go the TPB route. I keep putting off reading titles that I don't have all the issues of. I started by filling in missing issues of 2,3&4 part mini-series as well as 12 parters like Will To Power and Superman: Metropolis
I also just finished Soldier x.) On another side note to this I did finally finish putting together all 112 issues of Ghosts.
4. I'd like to get to a few more conventions this year last year I only got to 2, Steel City Con and 3 Rivers Comic Con.
5. Get back to my creative roots. As a child I wrote stories, drew pictures and from age 14-29 I played a lot of music. So I want to get back into being creative. Even if it's just a few sketches or a short story or two or record a song.
6. This one is kinda silly but I want to get my brother into comics more this year. I've always been picked on by my brother for not "outgrowing" my obsession with comic books but last Christmas I got his attention by buying him the Metal Gear Solid comics by IDW. He's always been a big video gamer so he was surprised to know they did such a thing. ( No need to point out the irony here I have to "outgrow" comics but he can binge on Mario and Zelda for 14 hours and I'm supposed to be cool with that right? Not that there's anything wrong with that, he lives alone so other than work that's his hobby.) But to sum this one up I've got him looking for other things too. He's now trying to hunt down the Valiant Mario stuff, lol.
As far as non comic related things my son and I are going to buy a "cheap" classic on craigslist and we'll build his first car together. Nothing crazy just something to build memories on that will hopefully last long enough for him to get around to his first job and maybe to college. He's a lot like me doing as much as he can on his own so he'd rather build/create something than just buy something that he didn't make.
Also this year I want to knock out a lot of old debts the wife's student loans and some medical bills.
(The two months out of the year I didn't have medical coverage I managed to cut my eyebrow open and needed
stitches. Hello $5,000, can you believe a CT scan is $2,900? SHEESH!)
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deadone Posts: 42
2/22/2018
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Ronbatman wrote:
Deadone,
I'm guessing that there are a lot of strange and wonderfully terrifying things in your collection. What is your favorite book? Story? Artist?
I dabble in 70's horror but just the DC and Marvel stuff. Mike Ploog fan as you can tell by my video and article.
http://blog.comicspriceguide.com/2018/02/13/mike-ploogs-best-comic-cover-art/
Although I did pick up an Eerie magazine recently and it was awesome.
Ron
My collection, if you can really call it a collection, it fairly tame. Most single issues generally only find a home with me for a short bit. Right now I only really hold onto hardcover collected editions because they fit nicely into what little display space that I have.
As for my favorite artist, when it comes to the older magazines, is a fairly close, three-way tie between Frazetta, Wrightson, and Sanjulian with Bernie Wrightson probably leading between those three.
My favorite story is "Jenifer", written by Bruce Jones and illustrated by Wrightson in the pages of Warren's Creepy magazine. Although my love for this story was probably ingrained in my head from seeing the live action story portrayed in Showtime's Masters of Horror series quite a few years ago.
Ploog is great, and his work on Ghost Rider was a favorite of mine when I was younger. A lot of work in the early Warren horror magazines as well.
Eerie's a great title. Worth picking up more if you ever have the chance.
It's hard to hold a regular sized comic after handling magazines for an extended period of time. They're just so hefty.
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