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Comic Book Purge
Sep. 24th, 2018 10:26 pmOne of the bigger projects on my staycation list was going through my 20+ long-boxes of comic books and purging the unwanted. I've been collecting comic books for 40 years at this point and I swear I have some from those days. I found an issue of "The New Teen Titans" that had a chocolate milk stain on the cover that I caused in third grade. Yes, that comic was from 38 years ago.
As I travel for work, I will sometimes seek out the local comic book store and buy issues from the $1 bin. Usually just a handful, something to read while on the road, often copies of things I already have. Then they go into the stacks and get eventually boxed up.
So the project this round was to go through the boxes and pull out the unwanted issues, comics that I bought for a curious read or for a story line that I am no longer interested in keeping; duplicate copies that I bought from traveling or just a poorer conditioned copy; and damaged or tattered copies, comics that I have read to death or may have been in poor shape when I bought it.
I spent most of Saturday going through the boxes and finished up the last boxes earlier this afternoon. The end result was these five paper boxes full of comic books of readable quality. I figure this is equivalent to three long-boxes worth, so that is quite a chunk removed.
At some point this week, I'm going to take these to a used bookstore to see what I can get. Honestly, I'll take whatever they offer just to unload them. I am trying desperately not to think of how much money these five boxes represent versus what I'm likely to get for them, but the house can only hold so much.
As I travel for work, I will sometimes seek out the local comic book store and buy issues from the $1 bin. Usually just a handful, something to read while on the road, often copies of things I already have. Then they go into the stacks and get eventually boxed up.
So the project this round was to go through the boxes and pull out the unwanted issues, comics that I bought for a curious read or for a story line that I am no longer interested in keeping; duplicate copies that I bought from traveling or just a poorer conditioned copy; and damaged or tattered copies, comics that I have read to death or may have been in poor shape when I bought it.
I spent most of Saturday going through the boxes and finished up the last boxes earlier this afternoon. The end result was these five paper boxes full of comic books of readable quality. I figure this is equivalent to three long-boxes worth, so that is quite a chunk removed.
At some point this week, I'm going to take these to a used bookstore to see what I can get. Honestly, I'll take whatever they offer just to unload them. I am trying desperately not to think of how much money these five boxes represent versus what I'm likely to get for them, but the house can only hold so much.
