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    Advice from other collectors on how to care for and store your books.

    Poll: How does everyone store their comics?

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    #1  Edited By Punchinello

    Sleeves & boards? Ring binders? Clamshell cases? Nothing?

    I store my comics in convention clamshell cases, and plastic sleeves + acid free boards in plastic boxes in a cupboard that's just for them.

    I'm looking into storing all of my comics in convention/clamshell/etc cases, and interested to hear what others do for storage =)

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    #2  Edited By The_Ghostshell

    Hahahahahaha

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    #3  Edited By Zenma

    bob99 says:

    "UP MY ASS THAT WORKS HALF THE TIME"

    you did that to yourself lmao

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    #4  Edited By g wiz

    honestly, i think protecting comics is an obsession that i want to stay far away from. i will protect my old ones though

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    #5  Edited By Terry Handson

    i laminate mine

    i stopped by supergirl because a certain sister of mine stole them

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    #6  Edited By Paragon

    Piles on the floor...

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    #7  Edited By Slinger

    I throw mine on the floor. I have a carpet of thousands of books, seriously, even collectible ones get destroyed.

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    #8  Edited By Hawk

    good ones in plastic sleeves in a paper box. Really good ones in hard plastic. Not so goods ones in the bathroom lol

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    #9  Edited By Punchinello

    I pretty much go by exactly what you do, Hawk =)

    Good ones in plastic mylar/pro sleeves; the collectible/awesome ones in the Mill Case cases, and the every day/reader's/shite ones in.. nothing, actually!

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    #10  Edited By conan2099

    In Bags, on boards in boxes.

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    #11  Edited By castleking

    in a box in a cold damp garage

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    #12  Edited By Vrakmul

    We put them in a deep bunker in the cellar.

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    #13  Edited By mrsummers

    I keep mine Bagged/Boarded in a shortbox.

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    #14  Edited By Precise

    Throw them in the closet..

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    #15  Edited By LordCosmicKing

    bagged boarded in boxes and the kicker find a nice damp corner in the garage.. i like to live dangerously

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    #16  Edited By Pania

    6 long boxes of bagged and boarded comics in my study closet.

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    #17  Edited By SuperGamera

    in a plastic box under my bed

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    #18  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator

    On my pc.

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    Vance Astro said:
    "On my pc."
    Ha....

    Mine are bagged and boarded in my dresser drawers.
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    #20  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    TheDrifter said:
    "Vance Astro said:
    "On my pc."
    Ha....

    Mine are bagged and boarded in my dresser drawers.
    "
    Well the majority of my comics are digital..but I do purchase alot.The bagged and boarded comics are in boxes and the rare ones are on the wall.
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    #21  Edited By DeCobray
    Vance Astro said:
    "On my pc."
    *Gasp*

    I'm a comic freak, everything must be protected in sleeves (Especially, my Ms. Marvel & Black Panther)
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    #23  Edited By Darkchild
    aztek the lost said:
    "I throw them all over the floor (the Marvel ones anyway) the Vertigo ones are kept in a special place...away from the prying eyes of thieves gets shifty-eyed and runs to check on his precious children"
     smacks the sh!t out of Aztek

    Read ur pms idiot
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    #24  Edited By vance_astro  Moderator
    DeCobray said:
    "Vance Astro said:
    "On my pc."
    *Gasp*

    I'm a comic freak, everything must be protected in sleeves (Especially, my Ms. Marvel & Black Panther)"

    Vance Astro said:
    Well the majority of my comics are digital..but I do purchase alot.The bagged and boarded comics are in boxes and the rare ones are on the wall."

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    #26  Edited By EvilAuthor

    I don't really do anything special. I keep my comics in the plastic sleeves they come in and store them in order in a wooden box under my bed.
    I actually read my comics so I don't want them to be too hard to get to when I want them.

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    #27  Edited By The Jeff

    I board and bag mine, keep them in standard long boxes in my bedroom. I have 7 boxes and hope to have over 10 by the end of the year.

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    #28  Edited By The_Scourge
    I stuff them up in a big box
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    #29  Edited By Kurrent
    conan2099 said:
    "In Bags, on boards in boxes."
    ME TOO

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    #30  Edited By MrMiracle77

    Bag-Board-Box is a good way to go.  Modern paper certainly preserves better than the old newsprint.

    They are book, and they are honest works of art, so I try to preserve them as such.

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    #31  Edited By Kid Deadpool
    Slinger said:
    "I throw mine on the floor. I have a carpet of thousands of books, seriously, even collectible ones get destroyed."
    Well, there's a waste of $$$.

    I do the bag-board-box thing.
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    #32  Edited By G Bird
    @castleking said:
    " in a box in a cold damp garage "
    LOL that made me seriously laugh out loud, and scared my girlfriend.
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    #33  Edited By CountZero

    Bagged, boarded, and in short-boxes in the closet - though I should probably find a better storage place for my comics... and I probably should sort them again (or maybe move to long-boxes).

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    #34  Edited By G Bird

    Where does everybody get short boxes, long boxes, bags, and boards? Is there like comic supply stores or something?

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    #35  Edited By Braxxis7

    in boards sleeves and boxes in my closets
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    #36  Edited By Theodore

    a few are in sleeves, if they came that way, they are stack up in a milk crate.

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    #37  Edited By -Eclipse-

    I have these big folder/ring binder thingies. Two big blue ones, and three slightly smaller ones, red, green and black. I used to fit all my comics in there, but now I've got too many, lol 
     
    Now I keep some of the older ones I don't read much stuffed into a big box under my bed... xP 
     
    My folders, however, are colour-coded. Big blue ones are old Spider-man, red one is recent Spider-man. Green one is Pet Avengers (formerly Hulk and Immortal Iron Fist) and Black is Batman AND Batman and Robin, lol

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    #38  Edited By CainPanell

    Bagged and Boarded, Arranged inside a custom made box that is Filled with Moisture absorption packets, At room temperature.

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    #39  Edited By Queso6p4

    Bagged and boarded but I may have to grab some silica packets just to be safe.

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