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From: kscott@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Kevin Scott%Kuntz)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Re: About little plastic bags
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Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 21:25:23 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 27 21:25:23 1985
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In article <3200009@mirror.UUCP> rs@mirror.UUCP writes:
>
>Well, I finally broke down and did it, I took the big step:
>I put all my comics in those silly little plastic bags.
>Now, this is really no big deal, as I only have about 150 comics
>and the first five years of Heavy Metal, but I found myself
>reacting very strongly to what I was doing, and I'd like to
>bring the topic up for discussion on the net.
>
>What can I do?  What do YOU do to keep your comics safe,
>yet there?
>
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  I have copies of Doonesbury books that I am quite proud of, they have been
totally trashed.  They were not left on the beach, nor assassinated by five year
olds, left on the car floor, etc.     They were read to death.  Some of the
earlier books (call me when you find america, guilty guilty guilty) have 
certainly been read over a hundred times, maybe several hundreds.  That is
the way to go.  If I were a book, I would not want to spend my life locked up
until someday I'm in a house that burns down.  

  But that doesn't mean we shouldn't take care of things.   I personally keep
my comic books in plastic bags, the ones I get when I buy my comics.  I 
alphabetize them and keep about ten of a kind to a bag on my bookcase.
When the bookcase gets full, a few bags that have filled up get weeded out
and put into an empty photocopier paper box.  These boxs are wonderful!  They
are just the right size, they have nice lids that come off topwise, and
fit in storage spaces happily.  Being in a university environment, I am
fortunate enough to have as many on hand as I care for. 
-- 
two to the power of five thousand against and falling ...