The Latest Batman Item You've Acquired?

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SteveA
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AndyFish wrote: Sat Oct 11, 2025 7:42 am Never want to be a hoarder. Currently I have so many books it would take me 173 years to read them all. I doubt I'm going to find that kind of time.
If your stuff is cool, it's not hoarding. I know the feeling, between all the books reprinting comics, books about comics, facsimile comics, and the related other books, you need two lifetimes to read them all. I just added 3 new bookcases to my library and I still don't have them all put away. Wish I had a house like in the old movies with a library where the walls were floor to ceiling bookcases. :lol:
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Boy that would be a dream! Circular room with ladders going up to the highest shelves and nothing but books from floor to ceiling! Maybe someday.
The Time Enough at Last image made me laugh.
I keep a pair of glasses in every single room in the house, drives my wife bonkers-- they're readers so I can't walk around with them on.
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AndyFish wrote: Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:23 am Boy that would be a dream! Circular room with ladders going up to the highest shelves and nothing but books from floor to ceiling! Maybe someday.
The Time Enough at Last image made me laugh.
I keep a pair of glasses in every single room in the house, drives my wife bonkers-- they're readers so I can't walk around with them on.
My Great Grandparents house had a library not as big as the ones in the movies. It was a regular sized room but it had floor to ceiling barrister bookcases going around the room. It was my favorite room n the house, I loved going in there and looking at all the books,and the smell of all those books was just wonderful. The smell of knowledge :lol: .
You can never have to many readers.... :shock: :geek:
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When I was in college I took a film class with one of Baltimore’s well-known documentary filmmakers. One of the assignments was for each student to submit a script and storyboard for a public service commercial about teen pregnancy and the resources available. The professor would select the best one and it would be shot and submitted to all of the television stations in the Baltimore area for broadcast. My commercial was selected, and I got to direct it.

Because we were using a dolly and a small camera crane, the location had to be someplace huge. He knew this collective group of hippies who had purchased a gigantic mansion, with a library and study, etc. We shot the commercial in what used to be the ballroom. It was the type of home you fellows are speaking of. Wood paneled library with floor ceiling bookshelves.They somehow pooled their resources and bought this place and then used it for their commune.It was a wreck. We spent a decent amount of time just cleaning up the ballroom because they had broken some of the window panes out of the floor-to-ceiling glass doors and leaves and debris had blown in, as well as water damaging the parquet wood floors. They had replaced the front doors with Supermarket doors!

This place had several acres. I don’t remember how many but the driveway was so long it took us a few minutes to get to the house.
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My grandmother and my great aunt had a house in Portland Oregon, and the basement was finished and was a full library-- bookshelves all around AND aisles of books. In the Summer's I would come out and spend most of my vacation there, in the corner of the library was a cozy nook where I had a bed, a tiny TV and an ever full (how did it refill itself) giant bowl of M&Ms that hung on a decorative manner at the corner of the bed. In the mornings I would spend my time at an artists co-op making silk screens and painting huge canvases, after lunch I'd ride the bike they provided me up to the 7-11 and pick up a handful of comics (there was also Old Weird Heralds which often had old comics) and I'd ride back to the house and share the comics with my great aunt who was a big fan of "Flaming Carrot" among other oddball titles.

But at night, after dinner, man I'd curl up in that cozy area with a book I'd select from their collection and read until early in the morning, usually with the Twilight Zone or something similar playing softly on that little TV for background noise.
Those were good times.

Speaking of Baltimore- I'll be there this week for Comic Con-- traveling with a posse of State Police friends while I'm there.
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