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 Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Storing Comics Stuff
Posted by maggie

In the course of clearing the way through bookshelves to the basement ashpit, I've found a bunch of odd items that are tricky to display. Have you found a good way to display things -- or have you, like me, just tossed them in a random box to deal with later?

For example, I found one of those bas-relief Dark Knight Frank Miller "posters." It consists of a plastic-formed Batman figure, teeth clenched, glued to a card backing. Seeing as how it was produced in the mid-1980s, the glue to the backing has dried to virtual uselessness -- but the piece is, nevertheless, in pretty good shape.

Is it highly collectible? Or just something to go back in a storage box?

(In the meantime, I smile to recall that someone -- Peter David, maybe? -- customized it by putting a tiny toothbrush in Batman's hand, so Batman appeared to be posing nobly to brush his teeth.)



10/10/2007 10:52:42 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)  #  Comments [1]
10/10/2007 11:01:34 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Yes, it was Peter.

As for my own tricky things to display, I have a collection of dexterity puzzles from the 1950s, manufactured by R. Journet and available at FAO Schwarz, among other places. For years, they had to stay in a box until I was finally able to obtain a Bulova watch case to display them in.

My other weird display is my original late 1960s John Deere pedal tractor and trailer that is now sitting on top of four bookcases. While my basement ceiling was tall enough to accomodate the project (the tractor's steering wheel actually sits up between the floor joists), it didn't leave enough room for me to put the original umbrella back on the tractor.

So, it's not just comics-related stuff that's hard to display.
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