Comic and book storage ideas?

[Michael Knight]

Just wondering if any of you lovely people would be willing to share tips as how you store your collections to maximize storage space etc.
Do you have a designated thrill power storage unit in your home where you an show off your collection in its entirety? or is it a case of storing comics and books in spaces where you can find free space (as im currently doing).

[Colin YNWA]

I'm really luckly I have a whole room set aside form my comics. I even did a whole thread when we moved into our current house and I started doing it out.

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=39695.msg798391#msg798391

we also had an old thread about how other folks stored their comics which might be full of useful tips?

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=33880.msg619186#msg619186

[milstar]

I'm really luckly I have a whole room set aside form my comics. I even did a whole thread when we moved into our current house and I started doing it out.

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=39695.msg798391#msg798391

we also had an old thread about how other folks stored their comics which might be full of useful tips?

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=33880.msg619186#msg619186

Colin, I know this is a bit off-topic, how you managed to get those Sgt Rock issues? I went once to amazon, but couldn't find any in print.

[rogue69]

I use old filing cabinets to store my comics and good old bookshelves for my TPBs
You can get a bit carried away &have a card index system to tell you whats in each draw of the cabinet, I have not done this yet but I do know a couple people who have

[Colin YNWA]

Colin, I know this is a bit off-topic, how you managed to get those Sgt Rock issues? I went once to amazon, but couldn't find any in print.

Do you mean the Showcase Presents issues - if so I'm afraid I can't be much help as I got them when they first came out.

[IndigoPrime]

Previously: 2000 ADs and Megs were stacked on metal shelving in my office. Until we noticed the floor had dropped. They spent a few years more evenly spread under the spare room double bed, but now live in our semi-converted garage in white comic boxes on a wire shelving unit. Books/trades and CDs are in our TV room, on a set of four IVAR units.

[milstar]

Colin, I know this is a bit off-topic, how you managed to get those Sgt Rock issues? I went once to amazon, but couldn't find any in print.

Do you mean the Showcase Presents issues - if so I'm afraid I can't be much help as I got them when they first came out.

Oh, I mean on those two, second image from the above, next right to the The Haunted Tank.

[Colin YNWA]

Colin, I know this is a bit off-topic, how you managed to get those Sgt Rock issues? I went once to amazon, but couldn't find any in print.

Do you mean the Showcase Presents issues - if so I'm afraid I can't be much help as I got them when they first came out.

Oh, I mean on those two, second image from the above, next right to the The Haunted Tank.

Yeah they're are the Showcase Presents Collections (I think there were 4 volumes in all by th end) - black and white 'phonebooks. One of those scenarios where a book goes for daft money now - or don't as they normally just sit there at that elevated price. I've passed mine in (not for silly money I should point out).

[IndigoPrime]

You must have a very dry loft with a strong floor, Colin. I recently headed up to ours to try and find a box of books, and they're now going to have to be recycled—all warped and musty. Lesson learned. Fortunately, they mostly weren't things I cared that much about (hence why they were up there in the first place).

[Colin YNWA]

You must have a very dry loft with a strong floor, Colin. I recently headed up to ours to try and find a box of books, and they're now going to have to be recycled—all warped and musty. Lesson learned. Fortunately, they mostly weren't things I cared that much about (hence why they were up there in the first place).

Arh the loft was a conversation BUT more significent in the old house - there's no way I could put my comics in the loft in the current house - but I do have the lovely nerdcave. I've been very, very lucky for nerd space in our various houses.

[AlexF]

Collections / graphic novels go nicely on bookshelves, but I have to say the more I get the harder it feels to justify keeping those longboxes full of original Progs - certainly for those Progs that exist within the digital era. Gonna be moving house soon and although the new house has a loft that will host those longboxes happily I'm starting to wonder if it's time to say goodbye...

[IndigoPrime]

I've honestly been wondering the same here. We have a certain amount of space in our garage, and I... just don't re-read them. Or, more accurately, I don't have the time. Perhaps I will one day. My wife's certainly of the type to say not to be hasty about getting rid of things. But we do both share a "well, there's only so much space" line of thinking. The decision for 2000 AD and the Meg is probably about 2–3 years away, I think. (Collections are more of an issue. I have relatively little room left, but then quite a few series I follow are winding down, or there aren't any obvious new books on the horizon I'd like to buy, like with IDW not doing HC Usagi collections yet.)

[Michael Knight]

Thanks to you all for the links to threads and recommendations. Its much appreciated.

[SmallBlueThing(Reborn)]

A year of so ago I bought 2 Screwfix metal shelves- then I purposely put them together "wrong", spacing the shelves equally and so allowing my entire 17 boxes of 2000ADs/ Megs and 12 of my standard US comic short boxes to sit on them. I don't have room for shelving for the other ten boxes, so they are stacked. To be honest the spare room looks a bit of a disaster at the moment, but that's because I'm doing something very nerdy of which I am not prepared to speak.

All my progs are bagged, *most* are boarded (I think I need a couple of hundred boards to complete- and probably replacement bags for those as well). The whole lot sits in 13 magazine boxes. Last week's prog finished off box #13, and box #14 is sitting ready to be made up and used. The Megs I store in groups of five or so to a bag- but I intend to individually bag and board them sometime "soon". They take up four boxes and a stack. The specials/ Crisis/ Revolver/ Toxic/ Scream/ Starlord/ Tornado and sundries take up another two boxes- and there are another couple of boxes of 'other uk magazines and comics'.

The shelves though- they were a gamechanger. Strong, easy to assemble and quite pleasing.

SBT

[sintec]

I'm really luckly I have a whole room set aside form my comics. I even did a whole thread when we moved into our current house and I started doing it out.

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=39695.msg798391#msg798391

we also had an old thread about how other folks stored their comics which might be full of useful tips?

https://forums.2000ad.com/index.php?topic=33880.msg619186#msg619186

Those old threads are glorious - I have wasted far too much of today nerding out over those rather than fixing bugs.

Going to have a project of my own coming up to shelve one of the downstairs rooms and turn it into a "library". Just need to let my bank balance recover from all the other house move associated costs first. Will post some before/after pics when we get there.