Again, one thing leads to another

[dreamshark]

So after I finished moving the comics cabinet so I could get to the outlet and then replacing everything, I inexplicably ended up with one box of comics that didn't fit. It's not just that there wasn't a space on the shelves for it, the box itself was an inch or two too long to fit in the shelving unit. So... where did it come from? It was labeled "Vertigo," and did in fact contain some Vertigo comics, but mostly not. About 1/3 of the box was a nearly complete run of PS238, a delightful comic about an elementary school version of Professor X's school for mutants, which of course I sat down and started reading. Then I leafed through the rest of the box and just reflexively started sorting them into DC, Marvel, and Other. Some of the comics were completely new to me, but of course most of them were just handfuls of issues that had  gotten separated from their siblings. I knew right where some of them should go, of course. But in most cases I just knew that there was a run of, say, "Hawk and Dove" somewhere, if only I could find it. So I started pulling down boxes with cryptic labels like "Underground and SF" and "Short DC series, Bronze Age." While I was at it, I started looking for comics that might be suitable for Lena and moving them to the box with the PS238s. As more boxes came out I started finding more early issues for comics that are now old enough that they might be worth something, so I got out the comic supplies and started doing a little bagging and boarding.

So now there are boxes ALL OVER THE SEWING ROOM. And a small stack of comics that I think I'll read before I put them away, like that Free Comic  Book Day issue of The Umbrella Academy. And the 12-cent Lois Lane that purports to explain how Lois went from hating Superman to loving him (that one features a cover with Superman running a kissing booth at a local carnival and Lois ripping up her tickets to said kissing booth, because those Silver Age Superman comics were nothing but classy from cover to cover).