I store my comic books in plastic boxes upright. Just a few christmas specials are in a smaler box horizontal. All books are not baged and boarded. Now I'm thinking about using bags and boards for each book to protect the books more. Do you do that? What kind of bags do you use?
How do you store your books generally?
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Charlie Brown
Comic storage
Message 1 -
2011-06-10 at 10:33:04
RancidDuck
Comic storage
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2011-06-11 at 12:32:50
I have my Gladstone I to present books bagged and boarded, they are stored upright in a couple of foot locker trunks stacked on top of each other. I am looking for a better way that isn't too expensive because they are packed tightly and I would like them a little more accessable (one of those trunks full of comics is mighty heavy). None of my Dell/Gold Key/Whitman books are bagged or boarded and are at the moment just stacked on a table.
I have my Carl Barks Library Albums in 3-ring binders in sheet protectors. It took 11 binders, but they store really well on a shelf.
Not sure what kind of bags I have, but I have read that the mylar bags are the best. I don't know, but I would think that as long as the bag is acid free it should be fine for long term storage. Maybe someone else will know for sure.
I have my Carl Barks Library Albums in 3-ring binders in sheet protectors. It took 11 binders, but they store really well on a shelf.
Not sure what kind of bags I have, but I have read that the mylar bags are the best. I don't know, but I would think that as long as the bag is acid free it should be fine for long term storage. Maybe someone else will know for sure.
Nerdreachoutproject
Comic storage
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2011-06-15 at 06:44:39
Quote from user: Charlie BrownI store my comic books in plastic boxes upright. Just a few christmas specials are in a smaler box horizontal. All books are not baged and boarded. Now I'm thinking about using bags and boards for each book to protect the books more. Do you do that? What kind of bags do you use?
How do you store your books generally?
I use hard plastic cassettes, upright, for my cartoons, but check that they are full! In the front and back I put acid free, stiff carton to rest assured they are safe!
(",) Tor
How do you store your books generally?
I use hard plastic cassettes, upright, for my cartoons, but check that they are full! In the front and back I put acid free, stiff carton to rest assured they are safe!
(",) Tor
Coolwater
Comic storage
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2011-06-17 at 14:50:30
I store most of the comics that I regard as worth to be stored in a more ordered manner in these things here:
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I also have similar, but larger ones of plastic for larger comics. And then I also have boxes that have a top and full complete side parts but where the whole front is open. I don't use any plastic bags. Don't need the fuss. Haven't got many really old and valuable comic boks from the 50s and early 60s anyway.
Such comics where I don't see the need to have them sorted or ordered are simply piled mixed up in a wall cupboard. Among my Disney comics this applies especially for loads of such issues of the Micky Maus weekly without a "good artist" inside. Due to space problems I also have all Disney pocket books densely packed in the wall cupboard, but still a bit more ordered than the magazines. Still, it's difficult to find and pull out specific pocket book issues if they're not immediately in the "front line" when opening the cupboard. My wall cupboard is really a comic book graveyard. Maybe I'll tidy up and order all the wall cupboard stuff one day (yeah, on the twelfth of never).
http://www.ace-technik.de/dokumente/artikel/FotoGross/838441S1.gif
I also have similar, but larger ones of plastic for larger comics. And then I also have boxes that have a top and full complete side parts but where the whole front is open. I don't use any plastic bags. Don't need the fuss. Haven't got many really old and valuable comic boks from the 50s and early 60s anyway.
Such comics where I don't see the need to have them sorted or ordered are simply piled mixed up in a wall cupboard. Among my Disney comics this applies especially for loads of such issues of the Micky Maus weekly without a "good artist" inside. Due to space problems I also have all Disney pocket books densely packed in the wall cupboard, but still a bit more ordered than the magazines. Still, it's difficult to find and pull out specific pocket book issues if they're not immediately in the "front line" when opening the cupboard. My wall cupboard is really a comic book graveyard. Maybe I'll tidy up and order all the wall cupboard stuff one day (yeah, on the twelfth of never).
Snowmansion
Comic storage
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2012-02-08 at 23:23:49
This is a long time ago, but I want to point out that imo the best way to store your comic is as follows.
Decide if you want to store them inside a map (archive map) or just without.
If you want to do it without the best way to prevent the books from bending (they are thicker at the left side) is by turning the comics 180 degrees each 13 numbers (based on 52 numbers a year). The most fragile and expensive comics can either be stored in a showcase (showhoes?) with a cardboard underneath it. To prevent the comics from sliding if you want to pick them up, you might as well put a piece of cardboard underneath it. Some people store them in boxes, I prefer not to. It isn't as easily accessible as without. I want to prevent to put stress on the paper as much as possible (especially the old ones) e.g. Dutch weekly volume 52-59.
If you decide to put the comics in some sort of archive map in which quality showcases are attached I prefer to not have them stand up but to lie down, because the showcases tend to hang down. To make things more comfortable you should make separate windows for each volume/archive map so that it allows you to easily pick the volumeyear/map you want. Besides that I prefer to keep my ducks behind a window/ door to prevent dust and moisture etc coming in.
Decide if you want to store them inside a map (archive map) or just without.
If you want to do it without the best way to prevent the books from bending (they are thicker at the left side) is by turning the comics 180 degrees each 13 numbers (based on 52 numbers a year). The most fragile and expensive comics can either be stored in a showcase (showhoes?) with a cardboard underneath it. To prevent the comics from sliding if you want to pick them up, you might as well put a piece of cardboard underneath it. Some people store them in boxes, I prefer not to. It isn't as easily accessible as without. I want to prevent to put stress on the paper as much as possible (especially the old ones) e.g. Dutch weekly volume 52-59.
If you decide to put the comics in some sort of archive map in which quality showcases are attached I prefer to not have them stand up but to lie down, because the showcases tend to hang down. To make things more comfortable you should make separate windows for each volume/archive map so that it allows you to easily pick the volumeyear/map you want. Besides that I prefer to keep my ducks behind a window/ door to prevent dust and moisture etc coming in.
Artemi
Comic storage
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2012-02-23 at 10:58:18
My comics are just all over the place...
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