Your comic collection?

Cap Haggis · Post by **Cap Haggis** » 04 Jul 2007, 23:29

After putting it off for more years than I care to remember I decide this week to sort out my comic collection , put it in order, sort out my must keeps and my need to get rid off titles and count up how many comics I actually have - My initial idea was that I had about 1 - 1,500 comics tops I was stunned to calculate (final figure not in still tidying up the books) that the numbe rmust be nearer 3,000 PLUS with about 50 annuals and books - Anyone else be surprised by how many comics they actually have???

john56peter756brit · Post by **john56peter756brit** » 05 Jul 2007, 00:03

I had thousands of comics thats all i used to buy but got shut of them years ago mind you i have still a big collection today. from john britton.

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 05 Jul 2007, 04:36

I was pleasantly surprised initially when I catalogued all my comics for the purposes of insuring them, but as I had 3 bookcases, it was the total cost of replacing them that had me in shock, not the amount of comics. Even now, being overseas, I have picked up over 5 to 6 hundred comics in the past 8 months. Nothing stops me from being comic-less!

Earl · Post by **Earl** » 05 Jul 2007, 19:50

What surprises me the most is that everytime I decide to try and cut back I still find my collection growing by another few hundred issues. It's almost as if my collection has become self replicating.

Muffy · Post by **Muffy** » 06 Jul 2007, 14:16

Managed to get mine down to 1,900. But it has taken many years of re-selling all the comics I bought in car boot sales and comic shops like Forbidden Planet. Have kept the ones of most nostalgic value. All the one my Grandad bought me; ones my dad bought me from the sweet shop near West Harrow. The bulk of my collection consists of: 400 2000ads; 200 Busters; 87 Monster Funs (including most of the Buster and Monster Fun specials); 136 Whoopee; 58 Cheeky; 58 Wow; 98 TV comic; 70 Excalibur; 166 X-men; 160 Doctor Who; 15 Tammy; 41 Future Tense; 26 Marvel Team-up and many others.

reker1701 · Post by **reker1701** » 07 Jul 2007, 10:40

I have 3,300 + comics and thanks to e-bay it's growing at a rate of notes. I have managed to complete my collection (Comics and Annuals) of the following,

2000ad (1621)
Judge Dredd the Megazine (296)
Revolver (9)
Toxic (31)
Crunch (54)
Starlord (26)
Buddy (130)

I also have nearly complete collections of

Crisis (60) Missing 3 Issues
80's Eagle (539) Missing 2 Eagle Picture Libraries
Tornado (24) Missing the Summer Special
Scream (17) Missing 3 Summer Specials

I have numerous others Beano Nutty etc but I am trying to get a complete collection of the Victor. I started two and a half months ago and have just over 60% of the comics and all the annuals. The summer specials are proving a) hard to get and b) very costly.

I have always been a bit of an Anorak and I love completing collections of comics. The Victor was one of my favourite comics as a Child, thanks to Colcool007 the Lion (Sorry White Tiger) is finally asleep. He'll understand!

I only buy stuff that means something to me, luckily I have an understanding wife.

It's not a hobby I can ever see ending, anyway the term Hobby doesn't really do it justice, obsession is closer.

It's amazing how fast the numbers grow.

Reker1701

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 07 Jul 2007, 20:49

reker1701 wrote: I have 3,300 + comics and thanks to e-bay it's growing at a rate of notes.

Considering the amount of lots that you are bidding on, notes is the right word for it!

reker1701 wrote:I have numerous others Beano Nutty etc but I am trying to get a complete collection of the Victor. I started two and a half months ago and have just over 60% of the comics and all the annuals. The summer specials are proving a) hard to get and b) very costly.

60% after two months! Can I have your disposable income please? I have only sneaked into that area on Victor after years of being tight so that I could buy comics! However, recently got lucky and bought a 250 issue lot and it had 4 Summer Specials in it! Plus some assorted goodies that I don't normally collect.

reker1701 wrote:I have always been a bit of an Anorak and I love completing collections of comics. The Victor was one of my favourite comics as a Child, thanks to Colcool007 the Lion (Sorry White Tiger) is finally asleep. He'll understand!

I do as I have only recently solved my own Lion problem as the story that I could have sworn was in Warlord actually turned out to be the Breda Douglas story from Crunch!

reker1701 wrote:I only buy stuff that means something to me, luckily I have an understanding wife.

For me, read understanding as fellow collector! Our pre-nuptial was simplicity itself. The one that walks out takes the kids. The one that stays in the home gets the comics!

reker1701 wrote:It's not a hobby I can ever see ending, anyway the term Hobby doesn't really do it justice, obsession is closer.

It's amazing how fast the numbers grow.

Reker1701

For me also, it comes closer to being a vocation than a hobby. For crying out loud, I am looking at taking my degree in Social Sciences so that I can research why comics meant more to previous generations than they do to the current generation! How's that for dedication!

Plus, if anyone is interested in a few Warlords, I have about 3 years worth of doubles that I will be looking at punting onto Ebay in the near-ish future. That's what I get for watching bulk lots and getting them cheapish...

Shaqui · Post by **Shaqui** » 08 Jul 2007, 09:03

I'm too scared to count mine... mainly 'TV21', 'Lady Penelope', 'TV Comic' (early 60s), 'Joe 90: Top Secret', 'Countdown/TV Action', the 90s Fleetways Anderson stuff, and the current Redan Thunderbirds', DWM, 'Look-In', etc.

stevezodiac · Post by **stevezodiac** » 08 Jul 2007, 10:25

The last time i counted my comic collection was in the 1970s when it numbered over 20,000. It is at least twice that now. I started collecting in 1965 with TV21 issue 21. Have started selling some on ebay to make room. Half of my collection is in storage including original EC and ATLAS comics and all my TV21s and JOE 90s (complete set). Daredevil number 1 is there too. I got rid of my anuals first as they are the most bulky and I don't have as much affection for them against the actual comics. Big regret was getting rid of all my look-ins in the late 70s - probably had the first 100 odd issues. The strange thing is I can not look at some comic titles for twenty years and begin to wonder why I am keeping them.

Earl · Post by **Earl** » 11 Jul 2007, 19:30

I feel the same way sometimes. Look at all the comics. Realise I have not looked at some of them in 20 years. Look at the the room they are taking up

.

Then the next week go and buy yet more to fill in the gaps in long runs

.

Earl.

moose · Post by **moose** » 17 Jul 2007, 20:13

just when i decided to tidy the storage boxes in the loft, my mum and dad decided to empty out the spare room at their house which had all my stuff and both my brothers' stuff stacked away.

a big "hello there" to about 300 forgotten comics, including 2000ad annuals and specials, my 'missing' starlord collection [damn the fifty quid it cost me to replace it!] some action annuals and special, justice league and batman comics from the 70s, read to me, pippin, new eagle, tiswas annuals, star trek annuals and magazines, doctor who, tv comic, cheeky, krazy etc. not all in very good condition, but some are like new.

more loft space please.

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 17 Jul 2007, 20:33

Moose, don't do the loft thang. Buy more bookcases from Officeworld as that will allow you easy access to your comics and keep them more or less in the same place.

reker1701 · Post by **reker1701** » 19 Jul 2007, 18:23

Hi Colcool007

Victor, 80% after two and a half months! Plus all the Annuals in mint condition (those were easy) and a smattering of specials, they are harder to get as competition is fierce for them on e-bay!

reker1701

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 20 Jul 2007, 11:56

reker1701 wrote:Hi Colcool007

Victor, 80% after two and a half months! Plus all the Annuals in mint condition (those were easy) and a smattering of specials, they are harder to get as competition is fierce for them on e-bay!

reker1701

Reker, it's getting really easy to hate you!

Still got to get the 1964, 1971 Annuals and a few later ones to complete that side of my collection. Now got 7 Specials and I can see it taking a while to complete that side of things.

moose · Post by **moose** » 22 Jul 2007, 21:52

colcool007 wrote:Moose, don't do the loft thang. Buy more bookcases from Officeworld as that will allow you easy access to your comics and keep them more or less in the same place.

i have them stored in the loft in big wooden trunks, which are indexed, but with a wife and two very young kids, they have to stay out of the way for reasons of space and the potential for damage.

i am thinking about getting shot of a lot of the 80s/90s DC comics though. not that good, not worth much and taking up room. the stuff i'd probably keep are all the 1st print sandman, swamp thing and hellblazer, but some of the superhero books are so dull i wonder why i bought them in the first place.

i'm also considering dropping 2000ad after 30 years. i nearly did it, then the quality picked up again...damn you pat mills, be more consistent.

Comics UK