This is the thread to talk about bagging, boarding, filing etc. Yeah it's kind of boring but I saw we started discussing this sort of thing on a number of threads. We can just use this to ask questions or discuss habits.
I have a few questions. I'm slowly collected Amazing Spider-man. I know I'll never get all the issues but I'm going to try. How should I file the Volume 2 series? Just right after Volume 1 even though volume 2 eventually went back to the original numbering? You know, now that sounds dumber after writing it out. I've been beating myself up about it for a while now. I think I answered my own question.
Another question. What's a good program for making a database for your comics? I've done a few google searched but I'm not sure what's good or not. Also is there one that is exclusive for a smart phone or iPad?
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I think the bottom line has to be: What will make it easiest for you to find the comics when you want them? Are you going to want to find a specific issue to look something up, will you want to pull out a full storyline to read it or are they being collected just to store them as a collection?
In the case of ASM, I would probably store them in chronological order, especially since the original numbering returned, because that's the order in which they were intended to be read.
But that's me. I store every single Flash-Superman race throughout time, no matter the title, in one Golden Age bag in my Silver Age Superman box, because those make a neat set (and keep being added to), and I store Defenders #8-11 intermixed with my Avengers issues, because the story crossed over, and that's how I'll read it. But I know those, so if I want one of those comics individually, I know where it is.
Needless to say, the order is probably less important than your index that tells you what box a comic is in, unless you don't have one, and then your order is absolutely critical. Because, as both Cap and I like to say, if you don't know you have it or don't know where it is, you might as well not have it. I've been there too many times to count.
-- MSA
As of right now I'm a slave to the alphabet. I'm in the process of pulling out stuff I don't read any more for a garage sale I'm going to have. Also I'm trying to make room for the new issues and back issues I have yet to file.
I don't have a database but need one. Mostly for knowing what I need for a few of my collections.
A while ago I had an excel spreadsheet but it's long gone. My collecting has grown by leaps and bounds since then. I know there's computer software out there for comic databases with a scanner for easy entry. I've googled them but there's quite a few options, don't know which I should go with. What would be cool is if there's an app with a barcode scanner for a smart phone. Then it would be there with you all the time. When I'm feeling ambitious I might just create another excel sheet. I have written a list of certain issues that I'm looking for when I go back issue hinting.
I've been using Comicbase for 4 years now or so, and I like it a lot. There are a several fields and check boxes that you edit for your own needs. It has made me less of a slave to having every issue of some title in one box. Each box is still alphabetized, but since I know what box number each comic book is in I do a lot less reshuffling of my boxes. It is pricey if you want to keep the weekly updates each year, but I splurge on that when it comes up.
The initial time expenditure to put all of those comics was quite a bit, but once I got finished with them all it has been a lot easier. Just a new box 2-3 times a year. I did get into a groove though and could enter a longbox of comics in abut an hour. That was skipping grading each comic though, as that doesn't interest me as much and would have made the time grow exponentially
It was a massive upgrade over my spiral notebook method. :).
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