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You would kind of think that if bagged/boarded they would be okay from water on the floor. I can assure you that is not the case! Here is a post from a couple of pages ago for ya: A couple of interesting notes so far. Had two full boxes of Hardcover DC Archives and Marvel (whatever, can't remember what they are called). The majority of the books were in regular poly bags. No books wet at all. 3 were still in their original shrink wrap, with two of those in poly bags. All 3 shrink wrapped books were wet. Golden age books, lots of comics in Mylar 2. All were wet/soaked. Quiet a few of the lesser value books were in poly. Probably 85% were dry. Interesting don't you think?

Update as of Friday evening at 6:20pm. I am in limbo 4 days into this. Insurance company is trying to figure out what to do about my comic books. I was honest and told them that I do sell comics at shows. This apparently has thrown up a red flag. They are thinking that this puts it in a different category. They told me that if a Hobby produces money it is a business. Home owners has very limited coverage on a business. $2,500 Remember I said around $75,000 estimated damage?? I told them that not all of it was show stock, that quite a bit of it was/is my personal collection. In the meantime, they have not allowed ServPro to come and start cleaning the basement, try to salvage or limit ongoing damage. Any lawyers handy?

Ha, no. It says Display Books. It was a box of Board Books for Comic shows. I had moved it to get to something and forgot to move it back out of possible water leaks. sigh.........

A couple of interesting notes so far. Had two full boxes of Hardcover DC Archives and Marvel (whatever, can't remember what they are called). The majority of the books were in regular poly bags. No books wet at all. 3 were still in their original shrink wrap, with two of those in poly bags. All 3 shrink wrapped books were wet. Golden age books, lots of comics in Mylar 2. All were wet/soaked. Quiet a few of the lesser value books were in poly. Probably 85% were dry. Interesting don't you think?

You and me both. Monday at 6:00pm I opened the door of the basement to get something. Turned on the light and I see paperbacks floating. Nearly 4" of water covering the entire floor. My English Bulldog chewed the water hose in half in the dog lot. She then used the piece still attached to the water spicket as a tug of war; her against the house. She won. Broke the pvc pipe in the basement that is attached to the spicket. Not sure when it happened, I was down in the basement on Friday night so sometime between then and Monday evening. I have a racking system in the basement to keep the books off the floor. Well, when you buy as much as I do it overflows sometimes. It got some good books along with cheap books. Paperbacks, hardcovers, Golden Age, Silver age, Bronze to current. Note what the lid says on the wet box on the shelf: Supplies; bags, boards, new boxes etc.... I've been going back and forth with home owners insurance agents and adjusters. Susan Cicconi from Restoration Labs is even involved. Estimated retail loss is around 75k. Fun uh?

There are truly some beautiful and fun rooms in this tread. I've always enjoyed looking at it. I thought I would post a few pictures of how my comic room looks right now

Thanks guys

It looked pretty nice so I popped on it, glad you passed. I do have the waterwheel torture cover but this looks a lot nicer than mine. Congrats on completing your cover run on Conan Todd!!

Damn it Bronzilla!!! Why did you have to show this?? Because of you I had to buy two pulps!

Unbelievable items Dwight!! Congrats on the pickups!

Thanks Alan I have been derelict, I promise to do better! (thumbs u

You've got this and you've never posted in this thread before? Great way to start...at least three of the books you posted are must-owns for pre-code aficionados. I really like Horror books, but don't have a whole lot. Normally I end up just posting in the main GA thread vs. the specialized threads. I'll try to do better.

And I thought you guys might like this:

I don't think I have ever posted anything in this thread

Great book David!

Way to go Pimp!!

Nice start!

Way to go Jeff!! Congrats!