Poll Vote: Protecting your comics

IcyDonuts

How do you protect your most precious collection? Do you...
1: Keep them bagged and boarded for the comic to sit loosely inside?
2: Keep them bagged and boarded for the comic to be snug and tight to minimize movement?
3: Use one of the above and include a plastic hard case (Top Loader).

ctowner1

For new comics I bag them in groups of 5 in a single bag, not too tightly. No board.

For older comics, I bag them individual in stiff mylar (I forget what it's called).

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Greg

Out of habit everything gets its own bag and board. Hoping to get my silver age into mylar.

John_Steed

my comics get no special protection - I just treat them with diligence

Chuck_Melville

Store them as far away from the bathroom as possible. I cannot emphasize this strongly enough.

nweathington

A few are bagged and boarded, some merely bagged, and about half are loose in the box. Most of the bagged comics are bagged in story arcs—three, four, or five to a bag. A lot of it depends on when I got them.

LibraryBoy

I gave up on bagging and boarding a while back. It's chaos in my nerd cave... chaos, I tells ya!

random73

really? huh. i thought my nerd organization was more ubiquitous. bagged, boarded, alphabatized by title.

WetRats

Stack 'em until they fall over, then shove 'em in a box.

PeanutButterMustache

I bag and board each issue, and file them by title, alphabetically in long boxes. I might have an OCD issue!!

MaudDib

I bag and board, but I put two comics in each bag - each facing outward with the board in between. This does a few things:
1) Saves me money on supplies
2) Each "package" feels sturdier than it does with only a single book
3) Since there is a spine on each side of the bag (one in front and one in back of the board), large numbers of books lay flatter/more evenly and don't "slant/slope" to one side when in a stack, or in a box.

I also order my regular titles from DCBS and get their acid-free bags/boards with each book. I store books tightly in a taped bag, and aside from the acid-free benefits, mylar doesn't lose it's shape and pull up/wrinkle over time. Books look as nice in the bag 10 years from now as they did the day I bagged them.

Also - whenever I part with books on eBay I'm pretty sure I get more than I would otherwise because I'm able to say they've been stored in - and ship with - acid free bags and boards.

random73

PeanutButterMustache said:

I bag and board each issue, and file them by title, alphabetically in long boxes. I might have an OCD issue!!

CDO. it is like OCD but in alphabetical order the way it should be.

Chuck_Melville

I gave up on the whole bag and board thing years ago -- too much time and trouble. I just try to take real good care of them as they are. I do bag the older or more valuable books, but otherwise, the collection goes commando.

I file mine... alphabetically first, series, second (all Superman titles together, for example), and continuity third (all crossovers go with the main series). Special events or extracompany crossovers get their own boxes.

kfreeman

I use Golden Age-sized Mylites 2 and Full Backs on my single comics. Expensive, but I will never have to worry about replacing them again, and they just look and feel nice. And to be fair, my floppy collection isn't terribly large any more--only about 9 long boxes.

d_beyer_jr

I just throw mine in the overturned lid of a shortbox (that sits on TOP of the actual box) until it's full, then they go in the box by title...usually.