Because it's about time someone did!
So...many...comix
I work for a special collections library. In 2002, the Edwin and Terry Murray donated their insane comic book collection to us. Because of the sheer size of the collection, and the fact that prevailing wisdom in 2002 was to leave the comics mostly in the order they were received, the sweet, sweet comix have been almost undiscoverable since 2003. As an example, it is only possible to identify titles at the decade-level. If you wanted to find an issue from 1984, you'd have to request every box that contains X-Men titles from the 1980s. The good news: we're finally cataloging the titles individually. My job has absolutely nothing to do with this project, but I spent two hours today helping rehouse individual issues. Here are a few photos of (mostly X-titles from the 80s and 90s) I came across today.
The people running the project are hopefully going to tweet/post in other social forums updates from the project as it develops. There will be some sort of organizing hashtag that I'll post here when they decide on it. My suggestions for it included #CrisisOnInfiniteBibRecords and #MurraYaybo, but who knows if they'll go for either of those.




Yeah this definitely falls under the category of things you wouldn't even have to pay me to do.
This is great and I am a little jealous of your colleagues. Do you know how large the full collection is?
I love searching through and cataloging comics archives. I did for my own collection (as dissertation distraction), did it for a big box of comics a friend bequeathed to me (that had not been opening since 1991), and I am frequently trying to convince my friend with a collection about four times the size of mine to let me help him do it.
But mostly I want to know what the heck is that soft core "Search for Cyclops" comic pictured at the link you shared? I have never heard of that before. Was he missing? Who was searching? Where is his shirt? What's with his eyes?
The collection is 298 linear feet, and a rough estimate is ~38K issues. One of my favorites from yesterday was a graphic novel adaptation of Pryde of the X-Men that was seemingly just screencaptures from the cartoon with dialogue balloons superimposed.
A little Googling indicates that sultry Search for Cyclops cover is a variant from the 2000 miniseries. I hadn't heard of it either.
http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/X-Men%3A_The_Search_for_Cyclops_Vol_1
You know a collection is comprehensive when it's measured in linear feet. That's awesome!