Exactly how many comics do you have?

no fair guessing...go count 'em.
I have 483 comics.
How many do you have?

good lord... no fair guessing!?

... if i had to guess... id say in the neighborhood of 1-2,000?

i prolly have 300-600 "mainstays" (books i love and would never part with, like dark knight returns, kingdom come, all issues of current jla volume, etc...)

i've been collecting comics regularly since... i dunno, mebbe 1990?

but, then there's the weird factor: since 97/1998, i get a monthly box of every comic DC produces -- usually contains about 100 comics. but most i sell or give away, or even toss in the trash! so, my collection numbers can vary by several hundred in any given month.

so, my TRUE collection is probably around 750-1000 books. (but, of all the comics i have/had, it'd prolly be close to 6,000).

I own maybe a hundred comics.

I've read like maybe 10-12,000. Probably more.

I haven't counted, but I have a pretty accurate list of them all:

http://www.geocities.com/bigbadvoodoolou/comics.html

Behold my works, ye mighty, and despair!

I counted them a couple of months ago. I have around 1500 comics I wouldn't sell or trade, and about 50 I don't care about.

My collection is like more than 1100 (1100 was number I had on the last count... it's increased).

Way too damn many.

Could be anywhere between one and five thousand, been collecting comics on and off since late 80s, and I've been collecting them habitually like crack for about two or three years now.

My first collection included about 35 long boxes. I sold them all in 1990 I started over in 93 and now I have 17 long boxes with about 300 per box.

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Originally posted by Rueben Rivera:
My first collection included about 35 long boxes. I sold them all in 1990 I started over in 93 and now I have 17 long boxes with about 300 per box.

Why'd you sell them?

and how much did you make?!? thats over 10,000 books!

As of today I have 562 comics.

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Lothar of The Hill People said:
no fair guessing...go count 'em.

Get outta town, man. I am not counting them. A guestimate will have to suffice.

I had several thousand accumulated from 1970-1992, but I sold almost all of them off in '92 to get them out of my mother's house and to put them to some financial use. Cashing in an investment, so to speak. I kept only those that had genuine sentimental value to me, e.g., my run of UXM (94-143), etc.

Now, I'm down to fewer than 500 easily.

between 80 and 90 I'd never part with (not counting my "Duck of Steel" comics with Donald Duck

and then literally hundreds of comics in a big pile in my closet

Excluding those yet to arrive in the mail and early birthday presents, 2892 as of this post.

Excellent thread.

Very good. I approve.

I've probably got around 500 comic books. Not so much a collection, as they're the ones I HAVEN'T lost along the way.

It helps that that place on Pines Blvd. right now offers back issues at half price though; I was there just last week.

You mean Baseball Cards & More II?

That's where I go for my comics.

Not including the TPBs (that take up two and a half shelves in my book case), I have around 3,600 and change. I've been readin' 'em since '94 and will prolly be hooked for life.

Yeah, my 500 doesn't include the comics I don't have on the hard drive.

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Wednesday said:
You mean Baseball Cards & More II?

That's where I go for my comics.

Actually the card they gave me says Cards Comics & Beepers at 7619 Pines so probably not, cause much of my collection came from that store many years when my mother was helping me with leftover issues for my checklists. My first time there was just a few months ago.

Same place

Baseball Cards & More II, Inc.
7619 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines, FL, 33024

It's old info, so you're probably right. That's where I go to, since I live in the area and it's right across the street from BCC.

Longbox #25 is almost entirely filled, though I don't know actually numbers...

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Wednesday said:
Same place

Baseball Cards & More II, Inc.
7619 Pines Blvd., Pembroke Pines, FL, 33024

It's old info, so you're probably right. That's where I go to, since I live in the area and it's right across the street from BCC.

Oh, I see.

Tom was the one I talked to mostly when I was there, and thanks to a few pictures I brought he remembers when my mother came by a few times. I also told him about how I made this. I'll probably bring a picture of that next time as well, maybe after I fix it up some more.

I have somewhere between a holy-bunch and a fuckload. 12,000-13,000, just to guess. Maybe slightly less than that, but not much.

I've got about 35 longboxes, plus 3 short boxes and another equivalent of a longbox full of other random sized issues (LCEs, digests, MAD Magazines, etc)

I stopped counting my long boxes after 25.

I'd guess about 35-40 by now....

One day soon I'm going to try to winnow it down to just DC stuff and classic MARVEL issues.

All that 90's Image and independent crap must go! I will however keep the X-Files and Mars Attacks comics of that era.

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Rob Kamphausen said:
my TRUE collection is probably around 750-1000 books. (but, of all the comics i have/had, it'd prolly be close to 6,000).

i'd say my actual collection is about the same still.

tho i've probably had 9,000 or so books, by now.

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McGurk said:
Excluding those yet to arrive in the mail and early birthday presents, 2892 as of this post.

This was a miscount. I left out a box of 114, so the correct total is 3006. Still less than the average collector according to Unbreakable (unwatchable) but at least I made it to three grand.

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McGurk said:
This was a miscount.

Someone ban this man from this thread.

Someone get their nets out, the baracuda are running again!

NO MISCOUNTERS ALLOWED HERE!!!

I'll buy a calculator?

Thank you.

843

844

As many as anyone else has plus one.

as many as thedoctor's plus 3

A BIZILLION!

This would be a good project after I finish my search. I have 8 short boxes, 3 or 4 of which are actually full. God (or Rain Man) knows how many comics that is. There's a lot of crap from either miscellaneous box that I should rid myself of. Do trades count?

Originally Posted By: Jeremy

There's a lot of crap from either miscellaneous box that I should rid myself of.

send it to Dave. he likes crap.

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

as many as thedoctor's plus 3

That plus one.

Originally Posted By: britneyspearsatemyshorts

A BIZILLION!

A BIZILLION and ONE!

The Beyonder!

I used to have about 12,000 until I sold a lot of them.
Still got at least 7 or 8 thousand I guess.
Just cant be arsed listing them on eBay right now!

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Originally Posted By: Son of Mxy

as many as thedoctor's plus 3

That plus one.

Add five to that and that's about how much I have yet to get to.

i've never actually bought or read a comic

Rufus?

huh.

I have about 500 tpbs, another 300 single issue (mostly very old X-men that are my retirement fund. Ha!).

Lots!

About 5,000 not including trades...

About 5,001............ not including trades.

You're the bastard on the price is right that always goes a dollar higher than the highest bid!!!!

THE BEYONDER x 2!!!

Originally Posted By: harleykwin

You're the bastard on the price is right that always goes a dollar higher than the highest bid!!!!

Originally Posted By: Prometheus

THE BEYONDER x 2!!!

The Beyonder x 2+1!!!!

The Beyonder x 2+1 with the Jeri-Curl from Secret Wars II !!!!!

Originally Posted By: Prometheus

The Beyonder x 2+1 with the Jeri-Curl from Secret Wars II !!!!!

+ 1 !!!!!!

I DESTROY MATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted By: harleykwin

About 5,000 not including trades...

Speaking of trades...

Originally Posted By: thedoctor

Originally Posted By: harleykwin

You're the bastard on the price is right that always goes a dollar higher than the highest bid!!!!

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dammit...

Originally Posted By: Joe Mama

Originally Posted By: harleykwin

About 5,000 not including trades...

Speaking of trades...

You didn't e-mail me the link again!!!

Originally Posted By: harleykwin

About 5,000 not including trades...

that is so sexy...

comics are bad for yuo. they promote satin and homasexualnesses. pleeze stop.