A Glimpse at The Kilpatrick Storage Unit
62 Posted on Apr 30, 2009 in articles by Conor Kilpatrick |
Lots of people have asked to see my pile of longboxes in my fabled storage unit. So earlier this week when Josh and I drove over to pick up my air conditioners (damn you, Sun!), I snapped off a quick pic.
So there you have it, my 30 long boxes. We actually browsed through the one all the way on the top left side for about five minutes and had a really good time because the box was 95% comics from the 80s and 90s. There were some chrome covers and more than a few unopened, poly-bagged X-books.
Oh, the shame.
It runs deep.
Comments
That yellowed box on the bottom in the middle contains 100 copies of Secret Wars II #1
Posted by AlexG on 04/30/09 at 09:23 AM
Not pictured: Conor's other 50 boxes.
Posted by stuclach on 04/30/09 at 09:26 AM
hmmmmmm.....a storage unit. Hey!! That's a great idea!!
Posted by Dez on 04/30/09 at 09:42 AM
Nice. Mine's filled with hundreds of action figures/vehicles/playsets from Star Wars, Ghostbusters, TMNT, and countless forgettable 80s and 90s movies... Total nerdness right there!
Posted by RyanHoyt on 04/30/09 at 09:43 AM
You have a box labeled Christ?
Posted by chlop on 04/30/09 at 09:46 AM
Also not pictured, Hunter in his cage.
Posted by s1lentslayer on 04/30/09 at 09:47 AM
Conor, is it really worth the rent on that storage unit to keep things in there? The rent really adds up over the years. I used to do that, then realized what is in the storage cost less than a few years worth of rent. Priceless sentimental value is the only exception.
Posted by BrowncoatJedi on 04/30/09 at 09:57 AM
Conor, if I were you I would have found pictures on the net of massive storage containers, or maybe gigantic trash compactors, and spent a half-hour or so perfectly photoshopping in things that looked like the tops of a million polybagged comics, and I would have posted skewed, cropped-off images of those instead. I hate to say it, but what you posted sort of deflates the myth you've been building.
Posted by flapjaxx on 04/30/09 at 10:07 AM
@chlop - He's got a big chunk of the true cross in there.
Posted by stuclach on 04/30/09 at 10:08 AM
It's a weird place to build a shrine at, but whatever floats your boat.
Posted by chlop on 04/30/09 at 10:17 AM
mmmhhh, the blue bag on top appears to contain large underwear with red polka dots... :)
Posted by odino1 on 04/30/09 at 10:19 AM
@chlop - Jesus was a HUGE Batman fan, so it seems like a fitting place for a shrine.
Posted by stuclach on 04/30/09 at 10:25 AM
Conor...only a real man would have a treasure trove like this, so congrats, you have proved to us that you are the manliest of the iFanboy posse!
I'm guessing most of those poly-bagged X-books are X-Force #1 and X-Men #1, and that you own like 100 copies of each like alot of us.
Posted by comicBOOKchris on 04/30/09 at 10:35 AM
@stuclach - I guess, but it would have been nicer if the glare from all those foil covers wasn't removed.
Posted by chlop on 04/30/09 at 10:46 AM
Cough! garage sale Cough! sorry I had something in my throat. Wow, look at them boxes1
Posted by Simmons on 04/30/09 at 10:53 AM
Cool, so you are a fanboy after all. A storage unit would be cool, but I'd lie awake at night that there would be a flood or something: rats, fire, whatever. Somehow since they are stored at my house I feel like maybe I could save them in some unlikely event--crazy huh! Such is the mindset of a collector.
Posted by skrulldave on 04/30/09 at 11:25 AM
Impressive.
Posted by Dan on 04/30/09 at 11:29 AM
Awww, I was expecting it to be more cluttered :(
Posted by drakedangerz on 04/30/09 at 11:37 AM
I aspire to to one day have my own storage unit filled with comic boxes. YOU INSPIRE ME.
Posted by sgrsickness on 04/30/09 at 12:01 PM
Not pictured: The Gimp
Posted by TheNextChampion on 04/30/09 at 12:10 PM
Hunter in his cage, lol... classic.
Posted by IpseVerus on 04/30/09 at 12:20 PM
Not pictured: the body of Moses
Posted by Heroville on 04/30/09 at 12:50 PM
ooh, ooh, I wanna play!
uh, not pictured: Jimmy Hoffa in an oil drum, Duke Nukem 4ever, Chuck Cunningham and Roger Corman's Fantastic Four (literally, the four actors are sitting in the opposite corner)
this picture does make me miss 'It came from the storage unit'
Posted by DarthDuck on 04/30/09 at 01:21 PM
@Heroville - Moses relocated to the USA after not being allowed to enter Israel? I wasted my youth reading about prophet-eating fish and spy-assisting restaurant owners.
Posted by chlop on 04/30/09 at 01:24 PM
@BrowncoatJedi: At around a hundred bucks a month it's more than worth it. As I've said many times before, I didn't get the storage unit specifically for my comics and they are less than half what is in there. Not pictured is the other 75% of the storage unit with things like a bicycle, air conditioners, winter stuff in the summer, stuff sotred for friends and family. It's actually quite a bargin.
Posted by conor on 04/30/09 at 01:32 PM
I expected to see the real Ron and Josh disheveled, screaming and locked in a cage with two empty pods in front of it but that's me. Maybe it was hoped, not expected.
Posted by Crucio on 04/30/09 at 01:55 PM
Not pictured: Steve Gutenberg's talent
Posted by ato220 on 04/30/09 at 02:21 PM
@ato220 - You cannot tell me that after watching "Three Men and a Baby" you still feel that Stevie G has no talent. The man is overflowing with talent (and body hair). Police Academy is cinema at its finest!
Posted by stuclach on 04/30/09 at 02:25 PM
The polybagged books are X-men but not #1, it is the entire "Excecutioner's Song" cross-over event!
Posted by k5blazer on 04/30/09 at 02:47 PM
Not pictured: The Steve Gutenberg Bible!
Very cool. My longboxes are stacked 4 high 4 across in the backroom of my parent's house. And I have about two boxes worth of comics piled in a closet as well. Once I finally settle in a place, a storage unit it going to be my next big investment.
Posted by PraxJarvin on 04/30/09 at 02:56 PM
This does make me miss 'It came from the storage unit!'...cause look how long he could've done this!
Wait conor....you stuff your friends and family!? You monster!! :)
Posted by TheNextChampion on 04/30/09 at 03:17 PM
@TheNextChampion - you can always sign up for one-hundred memberships, record yourself guessing what the comics is about, and uploading it to youtube.
Posted by chlop on 04/30/09 at 05:21 PM
Ha, awesome, thanks for sharing!
Posted by kwisdumb on 04/30/09 at 06:02 PM
Oh for the days when I only had 30 long boxes.
Posted by Hellhound on 04/30/09 at 07:34 PM
@ stuclach : From my research Moses was a the Batman fan, But Christ did have nearly a full run of Nightwing
Posted by 0and18 on 04/30/09 at 08:24 PM
Do you have those comics catalauged? I don't know how to spell
Posted by Gabe on 04/30/09 at 09:05 PM
Not pictured: The razor that is going to shave off Ron's sideburns, and Josh's love of fun.
Posted by JohnVFerrigno on 04/30/09 at 09:07 PM
Do I see part of the Hulk Hogan home gym in the corner?
Posted by Crippler on 04/30/09 at 10:48 PM
@JohnV: Heh, you just see a ball of yellow glow in the corner. It's screaming 'I got caught when I saw Episode I! I should be telling josh it was a good film!'
Posted by TheNextChampion on 04/30/09 at 11:02 PM
My storage unit is ONLY for my 40+ longboxes. Alas, I have every comic I have ever purchased since 1974 and have no plans to sell them any time soon. Call me sentimental and stupid. My biggest fear is that some snafu will occur with my billing and they will accidentally sell them all off on me.
Oh god I need to make a visit soon to make sure my babies are OK! Besides I have 12 more boxes to bring over.
Posted by NJBaritone on 04/30/09 at 11:28 PM
Wow, and i thought i had a collection... i think i've just been geek served.
And Not Pictured: The Giant Penny, T-Rex, Costume Shrine, and the faithful English Butler who keeps them tidy.
Posted by selftitled on 05/01/09 at 12:02 AM
@selftitled
LMAO at the giant penny!
Posted by JohnVFerrigno on 05/01/09 at 12:14 AM
Hurm...
It must suck @$$ to go trudging through that mess for certain Comics. EVEN if you know exactly where to look.
Posted by Mangaman on 05/01/09 at 03:56 AM
My question is, as the door slide closed did you whisper "Goodnight, Longboxes." "Goodnight, Winter clothers." "Goodnight, Christmas box?"
Posted by PraxJarvin on 05/01/09 at 04:16 AM
"There were some chrome covers and more than a few unopened, poly-bagged X-books."
Unopened? Man, those things have got to be worth a fortune by now, huh? ;)
@skrulldave: I sometimes think about that too, what if there was a fire or flood or something and I had to save my comics. I've actually been going through the long arduous process of sorting and reorganizing my comics lately (long and arduous mostly because it seems like I spend more time flipping through them and rereading them than organizing them) and one thought I had was to keep all my most precious and valuable comics (in terms of sentimental value to me personally, not monetary value) in one short box that I could grab and run out of the house quickly if I had to. Stuff like Flex Mentallo, Bulleteer, Adam Warren's Gen13 and like that. Yeah, that's the kind of thing I sometimes think about.
Posted by kenkneisel on 05/01/09 at 04:17 AM
Are we actually talking about Conor's storage unit?
Posted by edward on 05/01/09 at 07:46 AM
uh-mah-zing
Posted by rayclark on 05/01/09 at 11:14 AM
@Edward
The iFanbase is so amazing, we can talk about anything. ANYTHING!
Posted by JohnVFerrigno on 05/01/09 at 04:30 PM
Not pictured: Indiana Jones breaking a hip running from the Soviets and Steven Spielberg cashing a paycheck to recoup lost Madoff losses.
Posted by Woomer on 05/02/09 at 12:53 AM
can we see your bathroom next, conor?
Posted by edward on 05/02/09 at 02:04 AM
Not pictured: The karaoke machine.
Posted by chlop on 05/02/09 at 05:15 AM
How do you keep mice out of those things?
Not pictured a red leather chair, table with reading lamp, smoking jacket, pipe, and bottle of brandy. I mean where else is Conor going to read his old 80s/90s chromium cover comics?
Posted by jstump on 05/02/09 at 02:19 PM
One day you should open those long boxes up, dump all your comics into a pool and start swimming in them, cackling manically.
Posted by cromulent on 05/02/09 at 03:47 PM
@ Conor... Thank you, simply...WOW, 30 long boxes, I don't think my LCS from my childhood had 30 total....." WAVE YOUR FREAK FLAG HIGH "
Also I love the string of comments....priceless...
Not pictured: Olivia Newton John's Lets get Physical work out VHS and neon head band and legwarmers
@NJBaritone ooh, ohh I got to see your 40 boxes (pics please)
Posted by Jesse1125 on 05/02/09 at 09:46 PM
LOL wow sounds vaguely dirty! I'll get right on it ;-)
Posted by NJBaritone on 05/02/09 at 09:57 PM
How funny it will be in the future when Conor picks up a comic in these longboxes and they disintegrate.
Posted by TheNextChampion on 05/02/09 at 11:12 PM
Not Picture: The Long Lost Lyrics to the song Louie Louie.
Posted by GreenLantern2814 on 05/03/09 at 01:19 PM
Not pictured: The futon and the crossed lines signaling how many days it took him to alphabetize.
Posted by chlop on 05/03/09 at 02:24 PM
At least conor has a place to crash during the end of the world.
Posted by TheNextChampion on 05/03/09 at 05:57 PM
would it be easier to swim through a storage of comics, or a bin of gold coins representing your cartoon wealth?
Posted by spongebat on 05/03/09 at 06:54 PM
@spongebat - the coins since it's not worth much, and swimming through all those variant covers is like swimming through dashed hope and lost youth.
Posted by chlop on 05/03/09 at 07:39 PM
Not pictured: The Ark of the Covenant.
Posted by PaulMontgomery on 04/30/09 at 09:04 AM