I just found this thread. Anybody want to update on how many comics you have 3 years later?

I currently have 34 long boxes (and a box a crap in the basement). 95% marvel...

8 boxes of which are big runs of a lot of 90's b-titles like darkhawk, sleepwalker, quasar, guardians of the galaxy, etc... which is why they are hidden away in the closet.

sheesh, how did you find this thread?

i guess i'm around 50 long boxes.

Do you ever look at them and have some extremely delayed buyers remorse? When i'm looking through and i see a near full run of Silver Sable and the Wild pack or nth man, i'm like "what the hell was i thinking here?" Even though i found most of them in a quarter bin or something, i still would probably much rather have those quarters back.

And I'm now at about 33-34 boxes. Maybe 10,000 comics - and yes, I have 'regret' in that I'm almost 50 and just don't have the room for them.

SO YES - FOR SALE ON EBAY time, but my comic dealer (yea, i still buy) says to wait till late fall to try to sell....

wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too many.

wish I didn't loathe trade paperbacks with every fiber of my being...

Right now I have 4 large boxes of Spider-Man(Amazin, Web, Spectacular), X-men, Batman (Detective, Dark Knight, Batman), Superman and some other comics. right now I wish I hadn't spent so much money on the comics because I should have gotten the TPB for much cheaper and save some space. I am also not counting a rack full of Archie comics when I used to collect them when I was a boy.

I have thought of ebay for getting rid of some of these books, but honestly unless its a hot title you can rarely ever get a decent price! And shipping huge amounts of comics can be such a pain.

I sold a full run of the last Elektra series on there last fall for about $20 i think.

I'm up to about 8 long boxes, but most of them are because I got married and my wife brought in her collection. I only buy 30 or so books a year.

Now thats the kind of woman I need to find. Someone who can bring something to the relationship!!!

Where do you guys store them? Anybody ever have some damaged by random household accident? Thats why i refuse to take ANY down to the basement for fear of water damage.

About 20 long-boxes for me.

Though I've been collecting since the early '70, and yes, I still have a lot of those books, including a bunch from the '60s. But there's a big gap from the late '90s, when I kinda stopped collecting.

So that's almost 40 years worth of books.

I use an excel spreadsheet to keep track of exactly how many comics I have, so it makes life easier with my cataloguing.
As of today, I have 36,684 comics.
My wife is very tolerant

I used to do this when I was a teen. Tracked prices too. I don't know exactly how many I have, but I know I left a bunch at my dad's place that are probably gone by now. Because of the explosion of tpbs, though, my last month's order only had around 6 issues...

I have a couple hundred,which is a drop in the bucket compared to most people in this thread.

I have about 16 long boxes, which takes up quite a bit more space than I'd like in my apartment...

My wife and I use Comics Organizer to keep track of our collection, which is sitting at 6,705 at the moment, though somewhere in the ballpark of four or five hundred of them are duplicates caused by combining two collections into one.

She's a good kind of woman. Since she joined DVDTalk, she's become popular in the Adult Forum.

She has lots of horror comics from the 50s through the 70s. Eight long boxes don't take up much space. They're two deep and four high in the closet of the guest bedroom.

i used to have about 15-18 long boxes, but i finally was able to sell 4 or 5 on ebay awhile back.

As of today my collection sits in 13 long boxes with 1 short box holding the current series including minis that I am getting now. I keep another short box with the comic book supplies in it ( bags, boards, scotch tape).

Someone else in this thread estimated that a standard long box holds 250 comics so that would put me at over 3,000 comics right now (still seems like I have more!)

If i still had every comic I ever collected than I would have an easy 50 long boxes. I started collecting back in the mid seventies. I have unloaded quite a few over the years by selling, giving away and throwing them into bon fires!!!

For those comic collectors who just dropped a load in their pants over my last statement...relax!!! Rest assured that I only burned the "crap comics" That includes most of the stuff from the nineties!!

I can't forget the other part of my comic book collection...THE TRADES!! I know some of you like them and some of you don't but I for one like them. Thanks to trades I got introduced to what has become my favorite book...JSA!!! I added it to my pull list a few issues ago! I have probably tripled my trade collection over the last year and a half.

Take care all!!

I have about 14 long boxes of comics that will eventually end up in my eBay store.

About 30 long boxes if I had to guess.

I used to have everything so well organised. About 7 years ago I used a software program, Comic Collector I believe, was up to around 8,000. Then the program got bought by those nutbags that want a couple hundred dollars for their software, and since then don't even have access to the database of 8,000 back-issues I had catalogued. Even worse...

I have my subscriptions run through a local bookstore, the last nearby "true" comic store that I could make it by closed a few years ago. The place I get my comics from sells comics, and no supplies. So I have several years worth of new comics in nice little rows next to my long boxes. Since I spend about $100 a month, I'd say I have a few long boxes worth easily sitting unsorted but safe from harm. Just a pain in the ass on space since you can't really stack them. I just haven't found time to either order boxes/bags/sorters on the 'net or make a trip to go buy them.

Like I said, several years ago I had everything so well organized, and could take a minute to see all the issues I was missing from Uncanny X-Men, for example. Now... God, several years worth of comics completely unsorted and unboxed makes for a hell of a mess. I'd hate to think the man-hours it would take me to get everything bagged/sorted and then boxed.

Honestly, for the last couple years, I've been going digital for back issues, and thus why my physical collection has become such a chaotic mess. While not the most legit means, it is so much easier to keep sorted, so much cheaper and just provides for a better experience. Put up CDisplay on my 50" TV and read what I want to read. I figure spending $100 a month on new issues is support enough for the industry.

I'm surprised at how many people use the long boxes. I gave up on them a long time ago as they just take up so much more space. I really have no idea how many I have... if I had to guess sitting here at work, I probably have around 30 short boxes, a good stack on my nightstand about two feet high, and a bookshelf full of graphic novels and trade paperbacks. I'd like to go the TPB route one day and get rid of the original issues for what I can.

I think I've only got around 300 left.
According to Wizard, my only collectables are Wolvie #1 (Both monthly and limited series)

Ive accumulated about 14 (I don't want to go downstairs and count) long boxes. I started raiding them recently and rereading. I gotta say (not bragging as it is my own taste under scrutiny) that I had pretty good judgement most of the time from 12 onward. Of course, I did buy Secret Wars, so there is a balance here.

With most of my late teen choices, I got much more out of them this time around. I alway loved Alan Moore for instance but didn't get a lot of the staging concepts and brilliant social commentary as much as I do now. I learned a lot in college (character animation) and I understand much more of the artistry of storytelling at this ripe old age.

Damn. I love comic books. Without them, I may be buying things for some vapid wife. But at this age they're no stigma. Lucky me.

I could never sell these. They stay in the family and that's going in my will.

More than 10, less then a comic store.


Probably 4 long boxes and 8 smaller ones. I only collect GIJoe and Transformers now so it takes many years to fill a box so I doubt I will need any more boxes

2 long boxes and 4 short boxes... all from 1984-1991.

I've been clean for nearly 15 years.