Comic Book Collector Hats

The comic book collector's hobby runs on a vocabulary of its own: short boxes that hold about 150 bagged and boarded comics, long boxes that hold about 200, and New Comic Book Day, the Wednesday when the pull list gets picked up. Collector fanzines joked for years about owners afraid to ever take a comic out of its bag to read it, and the argument over slabbed versus raw copies still runs hot. Open a CGC slab to check that a Near Mint book is really Near Mint, and by the grader's standards it no longer is. One collector's column even argues that long boxes suit a hoarder better than a fan. These comic book collector hats are the pull-list crowd's side of that joke. Badges name the habit and the guy: Comic Book Collector, Comic Book Guy, Key Issue Hunter, CGC 9.8. Sentence designs carry the preservation bit, two copies of every comic with one to read and one to never touch, and a collection graded far better than its owner. This is the comic-shop collector, distinct from Comic-Con & Cosplay Hats, which cover the convention and the costumes, and from Trading Card Collector Hats, which grade cardboard. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the shop on Wednesday, or give it to the friend with the garage full of long boxes.