Tim Haight

Trimming? My local comic book dealer is under impression, that if you measure the comics sides you can tell if it has been trimmed. Honk Honk, wrong answer. that will only work if there is obvious trimming. Some comics were simply trimmed different at different times. It's not like they really cared back then how they cut the books, so we could make sure today they haven't been trimmed. they didn't care at all, and the books came out any which way they happen to, especially the older ones.

Bought a CGC graded copy of an old superman comic. Thought it had some type of crease in the center. I cracked open the case to find it was really a giant long black hair, that the grader must have left in the case.

The answer is... a good job of restoration, you probably won't be able to tell. I use to sell postage stamps. And even in that small of an area of a stamp, it was almost impossible to tell a lot of the time if there were repairs or not. And grading companies don't know either. I had sent many stamps into be graded. Had a Scott #1 with a hole big enough to throw a cat through, come back graded as perfect.