Batman - Where Collectors Go

By: Mike Selvon

To learn a lot about comics and comic book collecting, a website
such as batman can be a great source of information. In addition
to the selection of comic books, you can find a great deal of
information and other products that make comic book collecting
much easier and much more fun.

Batman and other comic book websites offer a wider variety of
materials and resources than the normal brick-and-mortar stores.
This is because the websites have more space and less of a need
for storage space than traditional comic book stores need. If
you got to a website like batman, you might get interested in
the hobby and become a comic book collector yourself.

Online comic book collecting allows the collector to search for
items that they really want. For instance, if you had every
story that the Joker was ever in except for one or two, you
would go to a site like Batman and be pretty sure you could find
it somewhere.

This allows collectors to craft their collections with a lot
more finesse, and take a lot less time doing it. Imagine how
hard it would be if you had to wait until conventions came
around or network every chance you got, in the hope of meeting a
collector who had what you needed, and then trying to talk him
out of it at a reasonable price.

Of course, the existence of sites like Batman shouldn't mean
that the collector gives up on books on collecting comics. There
is a lot of good information still being made available in print
media. You will probably even find some good print books about
online comic book collecting.

With online comic book collecting comes on line information
trading as well. The Internet has revolutionized the way
collectors collect, and the way they meet, and the sheer numbers
of other collectors with whom they can interact, and the comic
books and books on collecting comics they can potentially buy.
Batman, for instance, has message boards on its DC Direct page.

Message boards like the ones on Batman are probably the best
ways to hook up with other collectors and get information.
Unlike blogs, these boards allow you to throw out a question and
potentially get several expert opinions on it, where if you ask
a blogger, he may or may not have an answer, or he may have the
wrong answer.

On message boards, there is instant feedback on any answer you
get, so it is a quicker way of "cross-referencing" information.
Online comic book collecting is a quicker way of getting what
you want, whether that is actual merchandise or information
about merchandise and collecting.

The serious comic book collector should use whatever resources
are readily available, whether those are books on collecting
comics, sites like Batman or bloggers.

He will find that on line comic book collecting, while it may
not contain some of the same thrills as the old way, such as
following up on hard leads and physically traveling around for
every scrap of information, there is a lot more information, and
therefore a lot more comic books, to be had by the average
collector.

So in some ways, it may be more fun because there is more
competition, and that makes it more challenging.

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