Do any of you actually collect comics? Here is my Wolverine collection 1-4 & 1-16... all 9.8s
>>150136659lmao
>>150136659>Do any of you actually collect comics?nope. i just buy and read em and leave them on my shelf after im done.
>>150136659Check out the occasional /shelf/ threads as that's where all the anons that collect comics post. This is the last one although it's archived.>>150007441
My only rule is to collect within my means. A general rule of thumb is that if I find myself hiding purchases from my wife (get to the mail before she does!), then I know I'm probably not being particularly responsible and need to pull back.
I collect stuff that I likeI'm not in the best financial situation so I collect comics of a very specific niche i.e. decades old indie/small publisher type stuffEspecially the unscanned
>>150136659comics are supposed to be enjoyed and read, not collected in secure vaults
>>150136659Define "collect".No, seriously. Define that concept. Everyone who has ever bought a comic and didn't throw it in the trash after reading "collects". But if you mean pure con artist autism with slabs and gradings and shit, very few people do that nonsense (and I spit on them).
occasionally.
>>150136659I appreciate people looking after their collections but I find the whole grading thing to be largely nonsense outside of extraordinarily rare books, I won't lose sleep over some random 90s book at a 9.8 grade being read by somebody and knocked down a few decimals. That's a pretty tidy collection though so I won't judge. At least take a picture of your slabs out of the crate for people. to droll over anon. You should post in /shelf/ when those threads are up
>>150136659I think I have a Spider-Man in my bathroom
>>150136659collecting floppies is stupid as all get out - you might as well collect postage stamps, grandpaslabbing them is just giving money to idiots to praise your postage stamps and tell you they are valuableso you can hope one day to find an even bigger fool than you to give you money for those hard pieces of plastics
>>150136659I did collect Deadpool way back before he was Memepool and probably (?) before all comics were online for free. But it just got a pain to lug boxes around. Also individual comics aren't a great way to read things and taking care to put them back perfectly etc started to feel like 'tism. Plus it's only the graded stuff that has any value and that's IF you can find somewhere who actually wants to buy whilst taking into account how much it costs to ship the fucking things.
I usually stick to omnibuses or collections, im not a fan of leaflets.
>>150136659I own a few graphic novels. But that's about it
>>150136659I collect. A comic I can't read is worthless to me. If a comic I have is worth $200, I'll just sell it and buy $200 of other comics.
I only collect what I’m reading and if i feel like it’s worth it
>>150136659Yeah. Not too big on graded books, but I've got a 7.0 ASM #42 and some smaller ones that are signed or that I like the covers of.My raw books are more significant, ranging from golden age to early first print TMNT. The one I'm most proud of is a very crisp Captain America #100 I currently have hanging on my wall alongside Usagi Yojimbo #32 and Daniel Warren Johnson's recent Wolverine #8 variant.I'm thinking about picking up a 1st Shocker soon.
>>150136659I can't afford that, and odds are I won't have the money to spare for a pretty long time.
>>150136659Do you ever read them?
>>150136659I have lots of DC floppies, like over a thousand by now. I don't have any slabs.
