[CudleyCowlick]

Dude believe me, I can sympathize with collection display woes. My entire office is like floor to ceiling with boxes and I've got stuff I don't remember I've got because it's been packed away so long.

Basically, everything except being packed away in the dark in the right archival materials is bad for any kind of collectible. It's a bitch but it's true. There ARE archival frames for your comics so that you can mount them on a wall, and they can be had with UV protected glass, but we're not talking a cheap option here. For displaying figures, your best bet is acrylic holders for either loose or MOC, to keep dust off them. You'll just have to place them away from a window, out of direct light.

Of course, I sort of break my collection into two categories - the really minty stuff that I tuck away until I can afford to properly display it, and the more used stuff like the loose figs that I just stick on shelves and reading copies of the comics that I keep on hand for anyone who's over here to check out.

I do have these dreams of designing a TMNT-themed room for my collection, complete with a big green couch, TMNT tv & dvd player, and TMNT arcade and pinball machines, but this is at least 6 years off when my girlfriend is done with her phd and we're building our dream house.