Why does nobody talk about the sheer TIME it takes to properly organize a comic collection?

Mila Fox · 2026-03-26T23:00:09.836779+00:00

I spent 18 hours over a weekend just trying to sort my 500+ single issues into a coherent reading order for a single character's 90s run, and I'm still not done.

casey_fox686mo ago

500+ single issues" is the part that kills me. I once tried to sort my nephew's Pokemon cards by type and set number, and after three hours we just threw them all in a box. Some things are not meant to be in perfect order.

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troyramirez6mo ago

Eighteen hours just for one character's 90s run sounds about right. I feel that pain. It's like what casey_fox68 said, some collections just fight you on being perfectly sorted. You have to check dates, crossovers, and artist changes, and then your eyes just glaze over.

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linda4916mo ago

My collection is a monument to good intentions and bad follow-through. I have a whole longbox labeled "to sort" from 2019. It's basically a time capsule now.

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