How to Organize A Comic Book Collection

Tips and Software for Comic Book Storage

Aug 26, 2008 Stephanie Cox

Even if you're new to comic book reading, you know how quickly those books stack up.

Keeping up with the latest events in Marvel and DC can take the purchasing of a dozen or more series a week. In short time fans stack up several dictionaries’ thickness of comic stacks laying around. What to do?

There are several ways to organize a comic book collection. Whether you have a physical collection or a digital comics collection, or both, here are some ideas to get it straightened out.

Electronic Database for A Comic Book or Graphic Novel Collection; BluJay or Midten Software

Several software exists to help index a physical collection. Entering each issue in to the database might take some time, but it could be well worth the effort when trying to remember whether you sold or simply lent someone the Dark Phoenix Saga comics.

Midten Media Comic Collector Live or BluJay Comic Collector Organizor are two software programs to catalog, sort and organize collections into a computer. BluJay’s software includes a marketplace to buy and sell back issues. You can also store notes, keep scanned covers (or download them) and save publisher, date, and writer stats.

Tips for Storing Comic Book Collections: The DrawerBox

There’s no easy way to organize s physical collection so it is as handy as searching an online database but there are few tips to keep from getting overwhelmed by cardboard boxes full of golden and silver age classics.

The best way to organize a comic collection still includes stacks of long boxes. However, since metal drawers dedicated to comics books can get spendy and hard to move, the handy-dandy DrawerBox is an easy way to get the functionality of a strong mental sliding box without the cost or immovability. The DrawerBox has a space on the front to put a label, such as Spider-Man #1-100. This way, having to move boxes from on top of one another to get inside can be avoided.

How to Organize: Alphabetical or Comic Book Category?

There’s a saying in the comic book collector hobby: alphabetical is for chumps. Attempting to keep every title is perfect alphabetical order will make adding to your collection a nightmare, as will trying to access a series that includes multi-book crossovers.

Instead go for either character or publisher.

Organize A Digital Comics Collection: 3D eBook Shot and All My Books Software

Even if you don’t have a physical collection, sorting through files and files of digital comics downloads can be tiresome. Use a handy eBook organizer such as 3D eBook Shot or All My Books to sort your digital collection. Such software allows you to store and catalog your downloaded comics for easy retrieval and organization.

See Online Resources for Comics books for a complete listing of how the internet can help you organize your comic book collection.

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Use a DrawerBox to Organize Your Comics Collection

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Sep 21, 2009 11:06 AM

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"alphabetical is for chumps" not true. Basically do it by comic title. Take out the "The"'s and when it splits go from there. Or go by Character, like all Batman titles or Superman, but that is hard as sometime the lead character is not there.

Then numerical. Lots of decent programs for PC, but still working out one for the real computer Mac.

Bruji.com is getting the closest.

http://www.bruji.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=39&p=13333#p13333

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