How do you store your collection?

[Dodsy]

After moving house a couple of years ago I finally managed to get my comic collection bagged and boxed for the first time. Its now all collected together in the spear room along with all my graphic novels, models etc and lloks pritty sweet.
Seeing my collection like this got me thinking, how do YOU store your collection??

[mygrimmbrother]

On a cheap Ikea bookcase. Nothing fancy!

[SmallBlueThing]

Sometimes this board amazes me. All life is here. We have boarders with rooftop swimming pools, boarders who keep their collections in the garden shed, and now someone with a 'spear room'!

I keep mine, 50% boxed, in the bedroom, where they serve as useful 'hangers' for my wife's costumes and an occassional catbed...

SBT

[mogzilla]

majority of mine are in a wooden chest (aarrrrr!) in the wardrobe ,the rest are on the bedside table or in my paper rack in the front room.

[Aaron A Aardvark]

In the recycling bin.

[Colin YNWA]

Not rolled this out for a while so here's mine in our Attic (which is converted).



This picture is a little out of date now and the first 500 odd issues are bagged and boarded to stop them being quite so floppy and slippy slidey.

The majority of my American comics live on the opposite wall also neatly in the eaves

[House of Usher]

I've got to get my attic sorted out. I can't see myself getting it properly converted ever, but I think I can easily enough get a floor, a ceiling and a sklylight in there and seal it against dust and cobwebs.

I boarded the floor, but not the eaves, a few years back, and I've since managed to fill the entire space with useless junk.

[James Stacey]

Colin don't you worry about your first 520 or so progs getting further sun damage to their spines storing them like that ? Even if they are in the shade it's not going to help them. Looks lovely though

[House of Usher]

I can't seem to get my partner to break the habit of opening the curtains in the morning! For rooms in use, like the lounge and bedroom I can see the point, but not the guest bedroom, the back room or the study unless one of is actually going to spend any time in them.

It. Will. Fade. Stuff. 

[Emperor]

I'm currently working on converting a couple of filing cabinets into comics storage - after some measuring I find I fit a 2000AD down one side and an American comic book down the other. Annoyingly the page I was using as a guide is gone and I'll be jiggered if I can find a cache of it:

http://www.comiccovers.net/filecab.html

Although the discussions about it still exist, so I might be able to reconstruct some of it:

http://www.atomicavenue.com/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2088
http://www.comicspriceguide.com/boards/Topic23381-20-1.aspx
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=229358
http://www.comicspriceguide.com/boards/Topic5451.aspx

The main component (after filing cabinets) seems to be foam board, seems pretty cheap on Amazon but I'd need to make sure they are long enough to fit the length of the drawer (delivery would be... interesting too):
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002LBC9LE/

Of course, if anyone has any recommendations on the best place to get it then fire away.


I was amused by this set of photos of different storage techniques, I think the long boxes stuffed in a cupboard may be more common that the reading room with sofas :

http://kleefeldoncomics.blogspot.com/2008/04/comic-book-storage.html

How about this bad boy:

http://www.stanpikedesigns.com/dsu.htm

[Roger Godpleton]

In a big pile at the dusty end of the attic.

[House of Usher]

In a big pile at the dusty end of the attic.

I like your style. Never be dictated to by the whims of fashion. Never follow the herd.

[Colin YNWA]

Colin don't you worry about your first 520 or so progs getting further sun damage to their spines storing them like that ? Even if they are in the shade it's not going to help them. Looks lovely though

We only have one small velux in there so not sure how much of a problem this would be?

Either way I'd have rather um proudly hanging out for all to see rather than tuck um away to avoid such a problem.

[James Stacey]

I had a stack of Beanos in my fathers roof (same paper quality). Stacked in a pile and with only a small velux the spines (and the top comic) have all gone a dark brown. I'm not sure of the UV protection of comic bags, that might help. Don't loose sleep over it but you might find the spines of the comics do tan in time. If they are all boarded and bagged I guess you could fold a piece of a4 plain paper and insert it over the outside of the comic spine for each one to protect them. The later comics might well fade as well over time but I think there is a lot less chance, or at least the rate of decay will be a lot slower with the better paper quality.

[Mardroid]

I've kept some in boxes in my room. (You know those lidded boxes you can pick up in W H Smith?) I'm in need of more though as I have a whole bunch of comics piled up on top of those boxes now. (Enough to fill three!) I keep meaning to order something a bit more economical, like those big foldaway containers you can order over the net, but when I have a bit of money I keep spending it on other things...

The amount of times I read back-issues I might as well put them in the recycle box and be done with it I suppose. If there are any stories I want to keep I could always grab the GNs (easier to find that way too!) but I dislike forking out for stories I've already bought. (I did buy Origins though as that saga was just winding up when I started buying 2000 AD.)