LBC/Waco Comic Bookbindery

[VinceB]

I've come to the conclusion that bagging and boarding comics, while increasing the longevity of my precious periodicals, is ultimately not a good thing. Once bagged, I put 'em in a box and never read them, again. It's like they don't even exist. So, I've decided to try binding some runs (first off: the Kelley Jones Batman run), but I have ZERO experience with any of the companies that specialize in this kind of thing.

Has anyone dealt with the Library Binding company mentioned on the CGS forum or other outfits? I've been to the LBC site, but they don't list any prices...

SO, YOU WANT TO BIND YOUR COMICS....

This thread is very long, so here are some basics to get you started. 

FAQs:
Aziz's page
The Marvel Masterworks Fan Site page
You should be able to answer most of your question with help from these 2 resources.

LIST OF BINDERIES:
This list is not exhaustive, but it's a good starting point: BINDERIES

[Kenney]

Somebody got some bound books today.

Pictures coming.

[Kenney]

Ok, here are pictures of my babies.

Ducks in a row.


I went with a standard bind of about 2 inches thick in 5 of the volumes, and this is how the gutter loss shook out. Hardly any, and because these comics have borders you don't really lose any art. This picture makes the gutter loss look worse than it is.



This is my biggest volume (I think it was pressing 3 inches?) that is full of the books that I don't care as much about, but still wanted to have bound to complete the run. Amazingly enough, there is almost no gutter loss in this volume.




All in all, I couldn't be happier with how these binds turned out. I really wish I had more books I wanted to get bound.

[travazz]

I got 4 more books back from H&R today.  It's the first 4 volumes of Savage Dragon.

[Pat Moleman]

I got 4 more books back from H&R today.  It's the first 4 volumes of Savage Dragon.

Ok, here are pictures of my babies.

Ducks in a row.

Those are awesome. I have some DC adventure stuff I am going to bind eventually.

Travazz, man I saw your map for Dragon. You are thorough! Dragon is one of the binds that I have waiting in the wings. I have been nervous about mapping out Dragon, I think I may partially follow your map. The books look great!

[Matt H.O.W.L.]

I'm in that place where I'm thinking of stuff I never read to bind. That can be expensive if the title isn't that great in the first place. Did anyone read the Ditko Speedball title? I was reading Static and thinking that I could pick up ASM Annual #22 & the 10 issues of Speedball for a song and have a nifty little binding there. Does anyone have an opinion on this short-lived series either way? 

[Pat Moleman]

Never read it Matt. But I am sure that just being able to look at Steve Ditko art even if the story is bad will be worth it.
I have been binding stuff I haven't read lately. And so far I have been only disappointed by one bind. And that would be the second half of Mutant X. I read the first part when I was in high school and loved it. And the first half is pretty good. Cary Nord art alone makes that book readable. But the end of the book was pretty horrible. Out of my current 9 bound volumes, I had never read four of them before binding.

[AzizBawany]

Does anyone have any cool projects in the pipe line?

I"m thinking about selling my Thor by Simonson volumes and maybe my complete JSA by Johns.

[Kamakazi010654]

Does anyone have any cool projects in the pipe line?

I"m thinking about selling my Thor by Simonson volumes and maybe my complete JSA by Johns.

I don't know if I would call them cool but I am a few issues away from getting full runs of the early 90s Darkhawk and Guardians of the Galaxy that I plan to do. Should be a decent number of books, probably 2 for Darkhawk and 3 for Guardians.

[Matt H.O.W.L.]

Does anyone have any cool projects in the pipe line?

I"m thinking about selling my Thor by Simonson volumes and maybe my complete JSA by Johns.

Nothing I haven't mentioned before. I just got the $ together to send off my 3 Ben Reilly: Spider-Man volumes and the 2 The Shadow Strikes binds.

[APD]

  I have three binds off being worked on right now:  Captain Britain and MI13 and two volumes of Firestorm.  After that I think I'll be sending out a couple of volumes of Aquaman and my Star Wars Legacy series.

[Dean S.]

Does anyone have any cool projects in the pipe line?

I"m thinking about selling my Thor by Simonson volumes and maybe my complete JSA by Johns.

I'm starting to bind my X-Men starting with a volume of 120-145 of Uncanny.  I'm only starting there because I don't have a complete run from Giant Sized all the way through.  And, I've got all the tie-ins and annuals and such up through around Uncanny 230 or so.  And we'll just go from there.

I also came up with a solution about what to do with short miniseries.....I'm just tossing them all in together and saying "screw it".  So I think I have a volume that I sent in that has Bulletproof Coffin, Strange Tales 2 and the recent She-Hulks in it (among a few other things).

[Jeppe]

Does anyone have any cool projects in the pipe line?

I"m thinking about selling my Thor by Simonson volumes and maybe my complete JSA by Johns.

I'm waiting to get the first 115 issues of Legends of the Dark Knight from the binder.

In the meantime I'm working on a new project - collecting and eventually binding the best of DC's Elseworlds.

[Kamakazi010654]

I'm starting to bind my X-Men starting with a volume of 120-145 of Uncanny.  I'm only starting there because I don't have a complete run from Giant Sized all the way through.  And, I've got all the tie-ins and annuals and such up through around Uncanny 230 or so.  And we'll just go from there.

I also came up with a solution about what to do with short miniseries.....I'm just tossing them all in together and saying "screw it".  So I think I have a volume that I sent in that has Bulletproof Coffin, Strange Tales 2 and the recent She-Hulks in it (among a few other things).

Nice solution, kind of like a big bind that is just a giant hardcover Dean S. Presents.

[scoundrel3000]

I'm waiting to get the first 115 issues of Legends of the Dark Knight from the binder.

In the meantime I'm working on a new project - collecting and eventually binding the best of DC's Elseworlds.

What are you putting in there?

[Jeppe]

What are you putting in there?

Quite a bit of stuff. Enough to fill up something like 4 volumes of Batverse and 2 volumes of Superman/JLA I think. I can post the list when I het home!

[Pat Moleman]

Does anyone have any cool projects in the pipe line?
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I just sent out some TMNT comics, right before the reprints got anounced. I really want to do a Savage Dragon run. I need a hand full of issues. And I started preping a Firestorm bind. Just tore up a bunch of old Flash books for the backups. And I am going to do a 9ish volumes of New Mutants.

[Dean S.]

Nice solution, kind of like a big bind that is just a giant hardcover Dean S. Presents.

That's kinda what I'm going, because you know how it is: We all have these short runs and minis that we love, but they're hard to bind.  In the past, if I wanted to bind something like We3, I'd try to contrive things that would fit with it and would end up forcing all sorts of weird crap into a volume just so I could have We3 bound.  I just decided that was soooo dumb (for me).  Now I can have a volume that has We3 and Nightly News and other goodies just smashed in there. 

AND....it makes a great volume that you can hand to a non-comics friend as a sampler platter.

[batcavejanitor]

My Greek Street and  Batman & Robin came in from Herring & Robinson. I'm in love with them and am going to use them exclusively.

What all did you collect in your Batman & Robin? Just the first 16? Did you include any Return of Bruce Wayne, Return Home, or others?

They look b-e-a-utiful!

[Jeppe]

Quite a bit of stuff. Enough to fill up something like 4 volumes of Batverse and 2 volumes of Superman/JLA I think. I can post the list when I het home!

So here's the stuff I expect to bind in my Elseworlds collections. I still need to find several of the issues, and if I'm missing anything great on the list I'd love to hear it!

Elseworlds: Batman
- Gotham by Gaslight
- Master of the Future
- Holy Terror
- Batman/Houdini
- Scar of the Bat
- Dark Allegiances
- KnightGallery
- Brotherhood of the Bat,
- League of Batmen
- Batman, Detective, Shadow, Robin Annuals
- Thrillkiller
- Thrillkiller '62
- Batman Chronicles 11 & 21
- I, Joker
- the Book of the Dead
- Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham
- Batman/Demon
- The Batman of Arkham
- The Doom that Came to Gotham
- Gotham Noir
- Nevermore
- Golden Streets of Gotham
- The Order of Beasts
- Batman year 100

Elseworlds: The DC Universe
- Elseworld's Finest
- World's Funnest
- Superman Metropolis
- Batman Nosferatu
- Wonder Woman Blue Amazon
- Conjurors
- Golden Age
- Justice Riders
- JLA: Shogun of Steel
- JSA: The Unholy Three
- Superman: Speeding Bullets
- Superman: War of the Worlds
- Superman, Inc.
- Superman: Red Son

[bean6344]

So here's the stuff I expect to bind in my Elseworlds collections. I still need to find several of the issues, and if I'm missing anything great on the list I'd love to hear it!

Elseworlds: Batman
- Gotham by Gaslight
- Master of the Future
- Holy Terror
- Batman/Houdini
- Scar of the Bat
- Dark Allegiances
- KnightGallery
- Brotherhood of the Bat,
- League of Batmen
- Batman, Detective, Shadow, Robin Annuals
- Thrillkiller
- Thrillkiller '62
- Batman Chronicles 11 & 21
- I, Joker
- the Book of the Dead
- Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham
- Batman/Demon
- The Batman of Arkham
- The Doom that Came to Gotham
- Gotham Noir
- Nevermore
- Golden Streets of Gotham
- The Order of Beasts
- Batman year 100

Elseworlds: The DC Universe
- Elseworld's Finest
- World's Funnest
- Superman Metropolis
- Batman Nosferatu
- Wonder Woman Blue Amazon
- Conjurors
- Golden Age
- Justice Riders
- JLA: Shogun of Steel
- JSA: The Unholy Three
- Superman: Speeding Bullets
- Superman: War of the Worlds
- Superman, Inc.
- Superman: Red Son

Off the top of my head, Robin 3000 with that beautiful P. Craig Russel artwork.

Bean