Straight alphabetical for me (except a small group of random one-offs i've bought). I buy the plastic dividers. The series I like each gets a divider, but some I throw behind one divider. I have almost every Batman series each having its own divider, but series like Harley Quinn I bunch all together. My biggest problem is deciding if I want all of one character together. I cant seem to decide if I want Spider-Man, Spectacular Spider-Man, Avenging Spider-Man etc all in one place or strictly alphabetically. Currently I have them all alphabetical, but it might make more sense if they are all grouped together. I just cant decide.

Thanks Gil, it takes a wise man to say that!😉

My organizing of books are pretty poor. I have tried a few ways of putting my books in order but in the end it is in need redoing all of them. I have some boxes strictly one series in a box, which works if the series only fits into one box. But most series don't fit into one box so then it overflows into another box but then filled by another series. Some boxes is done alphabetically. Some are just labeled as Indy books while some are just the big two, DC and Marvel books. Then there are boxes that are labeled by era's, silver, bronze, and modern books. Then the last two ways they are labeled only by "eBay buys", which later the books get put into the right box and a "fire box" which holds mostly key books that I definitely will get first in case of a fire.
What works for me once may not work another time. I will admit not being organized is cool at times. I never know what is really in a box and have found some nice books I forgot I bought. With 65 boxes and growing, I'm not sure I will ever be fully organized. But I'm fine with that.
edited by Jokerbangedquinn on 12/27/2016

All Marvel together alphabetically.
All DC together alphabetically.
All large qty indy comics together alphabetically. (Topps, Valiant, etc.)
All smaller qty indy comics alphabetical by publisher. The real small press stuff.

That being said, I'm involved in a 1000 year sorting process because most of my comics haven't been sorted. I acquired too many in too short of a time. I do have a problem that some comics I picked up in bulk are stuff I don't even want to mix in with the comics I am sorting. The real answer is that I have too many comics to sort and not enough years in my life to accomplish it at the rate I'm going.

I have recently purchased an inherited collection of about 300-400 comics for $60. I generally have my collection sorted alphabetically except for Green Arrow / black canary series (my favs) which are stored together sorted alphabetically, volume, issue.

Now with this new collection I added 3 new boxes that hasn't been sorted yet but realized that I can't keep adding to the collection and sorting it the way I have without moving issues to new boxes.

Question is how do you sort you growing collection while maintaining order and being able to find things when you want it?

Other than CPG, do you have another program you use? Do you label boxes or use dividers?

Gilgandra wrote:

also have used Windows Works

LOL.... haven't heard that in a minute... Recently I have started labeling the boxes with a label maker and when they move I update it here. It would be nice to have a Web Service or something to make an app to update only from my phone. The mobile version is just to heavy for a "quick" update.

also have used Windows Works

I have recently purchased an inherited collection of about 300-400 comics for $60. I generally have my collection sorted alphabetically except for Green Arrow / black canary series (my favs) which are stored together sorted alphabetically, volume, issue.

Now with this new collection I added 3 new boxes that hasn't been sorted yet but realized that I can't keep adding to the collection and sorting it the way I have without moving issues to new boxes.

Question is how do you sort you growing collection while maintaining order and being able to find things when you want it?

Other than CPG, do you have another program you use? Do you label boxes or use dividers?