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Silverfish Assassin
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See, that's all I'm trying to avoid - I don't want to be the chump who gave away tens of thousands of dollars. Not again. My attempts at selling have mostly gotten nowhere though. Feels like this whole industry has gotten fat and lazy since COVID, now everyone expects to do none of the work and take (collectively) half of the profit. Coming from a background that's more conservation than comics, I can tell you that conservators the world over are pressing paper, but the standard practice is to rehydrate it and let it dry for a day between two heavy sheets of glass. I've never used a heated press to flatten paper. The process of adding heat and moisture to unwashed paper is how I'd describe rapid artificial aging btw.
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I'm not entirely sold on the idea of heated pressings... Do they steam the paper first? Because adding water is damaging to old paper unless you immediately rinse away the acid it creates (hydration of atmospheric sulphur/nitrogen dioxides creates nitric and sulphuric acid, two of the most embrittling/hydrolyzing acids).
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Front cover: mildew, bleached spine, silverfish chomps in upper left, wrinkles/creases across blue bird. Unsure about triangle in upper right (might be extra paper from a neighboring book). Back cover: small chips/tears along upper edge. Cover seems well attached for having only 1 staple. I fought the urge to wipe off the mildew as I normally would (with distilled water and cotton swabs) because I'm new to comics and don't yet know the rules.
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I'm glad you posted that census data, because I was having trouble locating it in the database. And I investigated the back cover - turns out the "triangle" is a big damn hole. Luckily no paper is missing, but it's still an ugly tear. I spent about an hour unfolding the tear/flap as you see but I couldn't get that last little bit to unfold.
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After thinking about this a lot more, I've realized something - the encapsulation of comics and coins is tolerable because it doesn't visually impede the most interesting parts, which are the outer faces. This Disney Retrospective is the exact opposite though, with amazing, full color pages, and dead/boring covers, so I think it'd be a shame to encapsulate it.