I'm Back

[dreamshark]

Once I went down the comics-sorting rabbit hole I pretty much stopped doing everything else, including reading/posting to LJ. Partly because I was becoming such a comics-geek bore that it seemed like it would be counter-productive to keep posting. Well, I'm happy to report that I managed to unearth all of Richard's 70+ boxes of comics (I think) and make at least one pass through them. In the process, I managed to generate:

• the biggest spreadsheet I have ever seen (19M last time I looked)


• a sprawling comics website


• about $2,100 (less the $527 spent on bags and boards and boxes and grading books)

It's been fun. Now I have something else to do, so I'm tapering off. Still hope to keep improving the comics site and maybe make some sales there. And I'm thinking about taking a table at the spring comics convention.

Comments

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Wow! Are there still more comics to sell and more money to make?

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, yes. I estimate that Richard has about 10,000 comics: I sold 250. I didn't even reduce the volume of the collection, since they take up more room once they're bagged and boarded. I had to buy additional comic boxes to hold the dwindling, yet expanding collection. The goal was never to sell them all. It was to figure out HOW to sell them. Secondarily, I hoped to bring in a bit of money while unemployed, with the vague idea of ramping up the selling activity if I was out of work for a significant amount of time.

[daedala.livejournal.com]

That is still excellently cool, and I'm really impressed.

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed seeing the Bondage subset of comic covers at the post-Thanksgiving dinner. Have you had a chance to read any of the related stories as you go along?

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Read the stories? Why would I want to do that? :-)

Every now and then I get sucked in by a cover (usually it's something like - "Supergirl stubs her toe and DESTROYS THE BOTTLED CITY OF KANDOR!"), but I'm always disappointed. (She didn't really; Kandor is just fine, in case you're worried. But that doesn't mean Supergirl isn't kind of a klutz. She always was.)