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Answer: YES. With more pictures, please. No offense, but I'm surprised it took so long for this argument to show up...that if "secret knowledge" gets out it will only lead to amateurs butchering sacred comics...any experimenting on sacred comics is blasphemy. I bet the old saying "you may have to break a few eggs to make an omelet" applies to how today's zipped-lipped Professionals learned. Especially when they first began. And if they would step up, maybe fewer comics would get "mutilated" just to understand what the hell is going on. Ze could put away his Iron.

Excellent thread (though I have to admit I cringed a little when I read "took my Iron"). But your quicky experiment and pictures are interesting. Your frustration comes through loud and clear. And it's weird that outside of comicbookland paper flattening techniques aren't "secret" at all. There's a ton of information on the web from professional paper conservationist. Here's one that decribes the process, including relaxing the paper before you, uh, get "the Iron". How To Flatten Folded Or Rolled Paper Documents by the National Park Service, Conserve O Gram 13/4 Good luck, looking forward to more. Bring it.

Richard Geer's character is obsessed with Silver Surfer in "Breathless". And in "Crimson Tide" submarine crewmen get in a fist fight over who's the best Silver Surfer artist, Jack Kirby or Jean "Mobius" Giruad.

I learned about it through you FFB. A couple of years ago I found the CBG boards and lurked for a while. The discussions were heated, with amazing information flow. You, Zipper, Iron MANiac, Hammer and others made me want to ask questions, so I joined CBG. After CBG crashed & burned over admin-madness you emailed me to try here. All I knew of the CGC boards back then was it's owned by a grading service, and it was Bug's homebase. Whenever I peeked in I saw lots and lots of emoticons inside ever-expanding boxes. I just wasn't comfortable, but found some interesting stuff too. (five stars to Povertyrow's restoration posts! ) Then the Ewert scandal made me think 'those CGC guys' are just like the rest of us. Without balanced pro and con information flow, some level-headed smackdown debates, the odds of getting burned go WAY up for consumers. So...