Ok so lately my parents are on my back about getting my comics out of their house. They aren’t gonna do anything drastic to them but they bring it up more and more for me to send them on their merry way. Now my parents have a two story four bedroom house with a full basement while I have a two bedroom apartment with a roommate (you do the math). I have probably in the range of 2000 comics or more. Yes I understand that can be a space hogger. They also want me to be rid of the boxes of He-Man, Starting Lineup, Thudercats, GiJoe and additional assorted 80’s/90’s fun. I told them He-Man didn’t apprieciate getting moved out of Greyskull. At any rate I am not sure what to do. I love my comics, I really do. They hold a lot of nostalgia for me on many levels. I don’t have the space for them here, perhaps I need to look into mini storage. So, I guess what I am asking is should I try to keep them and love them until death do us part or is it time for me to be a big boy and pass them onto a new generation to love? If so, how should I go about it? What do you guys do with all your stuff?

Wow, Rolltideguy…I am feeling your pain on this one. I have all my comics (prolly around that same as you) stored at my grandmother’s house in WV. She’s 84 so, I know the time is coming sooner than later that I’ll have to decide what to do with them.

I have NO WHERE to store them…so I am curious as to what others suggest. I am thinking I will donate them…the thought of selling them seems too painstaking. I will most likely keep my 80’s X-Men and a few other titles though…and I will definitely keep my Thundercats, He-Man and Transformer toys!

I had to deal with a similar problem during one of my last moves.  I ended up parting with about half of my comic collection simply because I didn’t have the space to store them all.  I kept the titles I liked and got rid of the ones I didn’t.  I have complete runs of Generation X and Mutant X, as well as a near-complete run of the original Excalibur (the proper one…with Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler).  I kept those along with handful of other titles and got rid of everything else. 

I keep my comics in a clear plastic filing cabinet, a cheap purchase at somewhere like Target or an office supply store.  Each comic is in its own plastic sleeve, of course. 

As for toys, my mother actually made a point to find my old toys and ship them to me.  She knew they were there, and she didn’t want me to go without them.  Yes, she wanted to get them out of her garage, but she also knew I would rather have them than her.  So I have a couple boxes of toys in my closet.  He-Man and She-Ra figures and a bunch of Jem dolls (Mom even got me a Pizzazz doll on e-bay when we could find her guitar but not the doll itself).

I feel you pain. For years I to held on to my comics and all comic related items I had bought over the years. They were my treasure of my past and I enjoyed looking over them from time to time and even sharing them with some of my friends, that give them a love for comics as well.

The thing is life moves on and as they number of comics and boxes kept getting larger, the room I had didn’t not. Top on that, that we moved to a smaller place and I could pack them a way, but during that time, other family members need some of that space of things they need to pack there for a time and my comics and stuff would be hard to reach with other things blocking them. Months and months would go by, without my being able to check up on them and when the other things were moved out of the way, I discover many of my Marvel books had gotten rain on and were not nothing more the color paste. Seems the roof had a hole in it and it rain down on where these book in their boxes were. So, they are gone.

Again, we move and we move into an even smaller place and now I have to storage them over a friends place and pay him rent for storage. That works out well for a few years, till he wants to use it for storage of his older things and I once more have to move them to a rent a storage place. That turn out not to a good idea. After two years of paying for the space, I lost my job for summer work, and after just falling behind for just two month, before once more having a job again, they closed down my room and let me know they were going to sale everything in it. I did what I could to let them know I could start paid them back, but they would have nothing to do with that. Now let’s jump just about a year later and they are still trying to sale my stuff, but I have learn by all this time, I can live without them, so my friend, I would stay to you, just let them go and share them with the world. Sale what you can and others give to local libraries, or other comic shops. Keep a few that mean the most to you and let all the others go.

Thanks for all the advice guys! I still am not sure what I will do just yet. I am sort of leaning towards selling what I can, donating the rest and maybe keeping a few select issues/runs. I hate having to be a grown up, it sucks and you get wrinkles. I need to catalog what all I actually have and see if maybe there is some stuff that can help a fellow FBOTU member complete their collection of this or that. Yes, Johnny haha that was the PROPER run of Excaliber!