Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities CONFESS! To your crimes against comics!

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Peebs...you are almost too close to asking there!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

He turned out to be straight ...

I think my worst crime, because of quantity of crime not quality, is i never bag and board my comics. I just pile them high on a book shelf ... which leads to some minor bending ....

I have most in boxes, but again not with bags and boards, so there might be some lean and bending. Also, the boxes are just stacked on top of each other ...

If not bagging and boarding is a crime, then I've been guilty for 40 years. I just keep mine in boxes and 97% look good as new. The other 3% were from my younger days when I had more time to reread comics.

Over the years there have been some incidents where the tape on the plastic (for bagging) rips up the cover a little bit. There is only one notable one though, a crime I committed at age 16 or so: I screwed up the cover of a newly purchased Giant Sized X-Men #1.

I can't even bring myself to reread it, the memory is too painful. I felt guilty for weeks and weeks.

I have used pages (and occasionally covers) from comics as wrapping paper for gifts. I won't tell you the titles or issues though, because it would just make you cry.

^Wow, I've heard of such crimes but have never seen it! I'm really curious about the issues in question!

i use to take an ink pen and ink over the already inked and colored pages.
and i use to cut the page up and make collages out of lot of my old comics

I don't really consider this a crime, since it was a mercy killing, but I just used JLA#1 and Legion Lost #1 to line the kitty litter pan (to rough and sickening to wipe my own @ss with). And in case you think I am just being snotty, I want to assure you that I REALLY DID do it. It is the only thing they are fit for as far as I am concerned. Darn! Should have taken pictures and emailed them to DC... wonder if they are still recognizable enough.....

As long as you paid for them, they won't care, lol.

Maybe I'll mail that actual comics back to DC.... hmmmm.... Should I send them in care of the editor or the individual writers?

[leaps out of Time Bubble, arms a-flailing wildly]

So were the kittens all named after Legionnaires then? Because that would be FAB-ulous!

As for me, mostly my crimes consist of giving away great books that I just plain don't have the space for. There are actually cute, house-shaped boxes with latched doors around the city that make this easier. They're up on posts, like old-time mailboxes are. You leave something to read, and take something to read in return if you want to.

Once I started seeing magazines in there, along with actual books, I figured comics were fair game, too.

I could be about ten thousand times more ruthless in clearing stuff out of chez_cleome, and still not get close to removing as much as I ought to.

I still love you, Comics. I just can't afford to be Capital-L IN LOVE with you anymore.

Not bagging and boarding for me too.

And I once let my copy of LSH v4 100 get wet. *shudder*

Plus I cut out the pin up pages...

I bought a new copy though

I don't always bag my comics when I put them in the boxes and they get bent out of shape.

Hear me brothers and sisters, for I have sinned against comics! Not in that way... jeez... you guys... Do I hear an Amen?!

"Get on with It!"

Close enough.

As a small child, very small I hope...I cut out some ads for bubble gum because separating the ad from the book would make it real. Clearly.

I have taken the free gifts from the covers of #1s and *used* them without thought for their premium value decades later!

I have read Teen Titans in the bath. The Wolman and Perez ones too!

Oddly, when a couple of comics did get mould, they were bagged and boarded, and not the Titans ones. But I threw those Giffen JLA's away! Fortunately it was into the teens of the book, and it was already starting to lose a little of it's appeal.

A magic marker has burst over a late issue of JLA... and I have not replaced it!

I spent an afternoon tracing figures from Who's Who...like everyone else probably.

I'm worse at keeping comics in order now than ever. My Legion books are all out of order now. This led to my great sin of spilling coffee over an issue of the Great Darkness Saga!

It has also led me to recently stand on an issue of Promethea, mangling the cover.

I have sold comics without conducting due diligence on the buyer to see they would be well treated.

I just hope you can forgive me these sins and that I probably own every Ambush Bug appearance.

>one tar and feathering over Ambush Bug later<

Be like that then.

thoth, you really should go to comics confession more often. This was quite a backlog and may take a while to process.

But y'know that Dev-Em is smiling from wherever he is now.

So, that was last weeks sins against comics. This week's sins...



Great pic Teeds!
- Julie Lad

I confess to taking my comics out into the garden to read in the sun. Exposing them to all the radiation our sun could throw at them. It was the Legion Index too.

I NEVER bag and board. Ever!

they ask me every week at the comic store. The answer is always ... a polite but firm


NO

Recently I started buying my kids Angry Birds comics, because we all love the movie that came out. The crimes have not been quite as bad as when I bought them some Uncle Scrooge or TMNT comics last year, but let's just saw there have been numerous misdemeanors.

Same here!