Comics kept: 2,114 (57%)
Comics tossed: 1,588 (43%)

Hardest comic(s) to get rid of:

The Young Justice serial. Great serial, very tough to watch it go.

Hardware #1

Easiest comic(s) to get rid of:

X-Men Movie Adaptation. Worst. Comic. Ever. (and no, I'm not making any commentary on the actual movie with this summation).

Extreme Justice. How can a comic with Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, and Captain Atom be so awful?

Comics I never considered getting rid of:

The Watchmen

The Question

V for Vendetta

Vigilante

Keith Giffen's Justice League work

Comics I need to go out and buy ASAP:

The rest of Jon Ostrander's Spectre series.

The rest of Green Lantern Mosaic

Green Arrow #100

Comic(s) I'm surprised that I kept:
I kept a lot more Robin and Nightwing than I thought I would.

Comics I Thought I Had:

I could have sworn that I'd kept the Demon serial last time I did some comic house cleaning. It turns out that I didn't. I was actually really looking forward to getting around to reading them.

I'm two comics shy of having the entire Impact run. I really thought that I had them all.

I thought I had more Flash and Punisher than I do.

Comics I didn't realize I had:

During our seperation, Tanya gave me custody of a handsome collection of Ultraverse comics.

I also apparently have the Green Lantern part of the Return of Barry Allen storyline.

I apparently have Johnny Walker's (currently USAgent) entire run as Captain America.

Comic that could have been the greatest ever made but wasn't:

Chain Gang War

Comics that other bloggers need to read:

Owen Courreges needs to read Vigilante. Vig is a lot like Punisher and it explores the issues he talks about on his blogs as they pertain to Mr. Castle (and in Vigilante, Messrs Chase, Winston, and Wells.

Daniel Goldberg and Lex Alexander should read The Question and V for Vendetta.

Frank Martin should read The Spectre.

Michael Morgan needs to read Batman: Seduction of the Gun cause getting pissed off can be fun.

Everyone should read Watchmen.

Everyone who liked Watchmen should read Marshal Law.

Other notes:

When I was younger, I used to keep money behind comics in my room. I didn't have enough to have a bank account so I had to hide it somewhere. Of course, I'd constantly forget which comics I had them behind so I'd have periods of panic ("Why do I only have $80 saved up?!") followed by joyful surprises ("Action Comics #588, I love you for giving me $30!"). I actually didn't find any money this time around and thought that I might. Of course, whoever ends up getting my comics (right now Mr. Morgan if he wants them) might be in for a joyful surprise.

I didn't find any money, but I found a couple of letters from Jessica I'd apparently stashed away. Go figure.

I'm not sure whether I'd rather have found $30 or the letters.

I thought that I'd have more isolated issues than I did. By that I mean issues that I had part 1 but not part 2 or vice-versa. Don't get me wrong, I had a number of them, but I was thinking that I'd be getting rid of 2/3 of my collection in large part due to inflated expectations of how many I'd be getting rid of just because I didn't have the whole story.

Comics that haven't been touched in over a year and a half come with a lot of dust.

I don't buy comic books for the art, but there were a few cases where I did get rid of them because of the art.

Early issues of Catwoman definitely qualify as soft porn. Jim Balent's artwork has the costume so tight that I think he just drew Catwoman nude and then colored it purple. If I were in Playboy's legal department, I'd be checking the poses to see if he ripped off any issues that were out at the time.

Those issues of Catwoman were very popular with guys, if I recall, for a story with a female writer writing a female lead.

Chuck Dixon's stock went up considerably. I kept more of his Batman-related work than anyone else's.

The first comic I ever bought (Batman #481) was written by Doug Moensch, interestingly. I bought it before going on a 3-week trip to Europe. I read it so many times it's now restapled together. Looking over the issue, it's actually somewhat mediocre.

My best friend Jay used to be obsessed with the smoothness of comic book paper. It became an ongoing joke... "The paper! It's so smooooooooth..."

Regardless of the aesthetic qualities of high-grade paper, the difference in how well they've held up over the years as compared to their standard brethren is considerable.

Crossovers are hell to catalog.

I only kept Dark Knight Strikes Again because it was a sequel to the classic Dark Knight Returns. There was no other reason.

I'm actually somewhat surprised on the strident responses to letters of the editors in Flash and Batman in particular. Conservative readers who objected to a gay character in Flash and a virulently anti-gun issue of Batman were outright called stupid and worse.

In one series, it's almost amusing watching them ratchet up a black character's ethnic bonafides by bringing up OJ Simpson.

I spent more time looking through the comics than I probably should have.