One of the comic book collecting tips which I cannot stress enough is how important it is to have your comic books stored in numerical order. Not only does this help you as a collector, it also helps any store owner you take your comic books to with the intention of trading or selling. If you are a convention vendor reading this article, these reasons apply to you as well as they will help you to move more product.
Comic Book Storage
Your Collection
If you care at all about your comic book collection, you need to store you comics in numerical order. This is one of those comic book collecting tips you should never ignore. If you are going to search through your collection, it is much easier to find issues if they are stored in numerical order. You can gain a better grasp of the issues you need, as you simply have to find where the gaps are in your runs. If a particular issue begins to spike, such as Spawn #9 (the introduction of Angela) is now, you can easily find the copy in your storage boxes.
Selling Your Collection
When looking through a box at his or her store, comic book store owners are going to hope that your collection is in numerical order. Chances are good, if the buyer is “in the know,” he or she is going to skim your collection for certain key issues. If those issues are found, you might be looking at extra money. Those can be found easier if you follow one of the most basic of comic book collecting tips.
Convention Vendors and Comic Book Collecting Tips
As a collector, I am more likely to pass convention vendors by which do not have their comics in numerical order. I understand that people look through the boxes and the order can become messed up. As someone who has been collecting for three decades, I can tell the difference between customer negligence and seller negligence. Do everything you can as a vendor to follow as many of the basic comic book collecting tips as possible, especially this one. If I am looking through a box of yours at a convention, chances are good that I am looking for key issues. Make sure I can find them.
