Sitting with the Bangkok index on Ratchadamri Road

The elevator opens on Level 8, 29 Ratchadamri Road, Bangkok 10330. A clerk checks the character name you spoke on the telephone against a drawer of cards. If the folder exists, you sit at a table with a lamp; if it does not, you hear that before anyone opens a viewer.

A shared screen shows only the issue you named. Staff do not roam other collectors’ files. The first minutes are slow: confirm the drop title, find the first interior page, count panels until the spotlight starts.

You may photograph the index sheet, not the comic art. That rule keeps the room from turning into an unofficial gallery. When the hour ends, the clerk returns the card to the drawer and notes the date on a paper log.

Bring the drop titles written down. Memory of marketplace banners is a poor catalog.