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Long Term Unattended Storage.

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hm

 

Has anyone ever looked at the pros and cons of having large stashes of comics vacuum sealed and stored?

 

We all know that CGC seals individual books but what I'm saying is grabbing a whole short box and vacuum sealing the whole box and just storing it in a dark dungeon somewhere.

 

Thoughts?

 

 

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lol

 

dungeon bit was a joke but If it's sealed airtight would it even matter if it was kept in a humid environment?

 

How would moisture get in?

 

I thought I read somewhere a while back a collector had done something similar to this with a large amount of books.

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Apparently Reynold Jay picked up a collection that was vacuum packed and then placed in frozen storage.

 

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When these comics were published, RJ was busy running a booth at a Detroit convention. Being too busy to shop, he found a number of children who would fetch various comics from quarter bins and bring them to him. Some of these comics were sealed in Mylar and bagged again in vacuum bags . These were quite nice, so RJ ended up hunting up the source and buying out the dealer who had over 1000 of these rare gems. The dealer explained that the sealed items had come from an eccentric collector who had encased everything in this unusual manner.

 

Unusual indeed! Sealing brand new cherry picked books back in the early 80's. The dealer was upset that he might need to unwrap these gems only to try to sell them for a mere quarter. We didn't want to unwrap these either!

 

We kept these in frozen storage for over two decades, have de-thawed, a few of these and are now ready to make a few of these available.

 

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Mr. Zipper

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dungeon bit was a joke but If it's sealed airtight would it even matter if it was kept in a humid environment?

 

How would moisture get in?

 

Most plastics are somewhat permeable. It may take time, but water and/or gasses can eventually permeate the plastic.

 

One of the advantages of mylar is that it is MUCH less permeable than standard plastic bags.

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underthebigw

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dungeon bit was a joke but If it's sealed airtight would it even matter if it was kept in a humid environment?

 

How would moisture get in?

 

Most plastics are somewhat permeable. It may take time, but water and/or gasses can eventually permeate the plastic.

 

One of the advantages of mylar is that it is MUCH less permeable than standard plastic bags.

 

Bingo. Plastic only provides a degree of protection, and since you're talking long term, humidity would definitely cross the barrier.

 

Now, it might be a different story if you packed the bag with properly conditioned silica gel or art-form (I think that's the name) to maintain RH.

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Apparently Reynold Jay picked up a collection that was vacuum packed and then placed in frozen storage.

 

LINK.

 

When these comics were published, RJ was busy running a booth at a Detroit convention. Being too busy to shop, he found a number of children who would fetch various comics from quarter bins and bring them to him. Some of these comics were sealed in Mylar and bagged again in vacuum bags . These were quite nice, so RJ ended up hunting up the source and buying out the dealer who had over 1000 of these rare gems. The dealer explained that the sealed items had come from an eccentric collector who had encased everything in this unusual manner.

 

Unusual indeed! Sealing brand new cherry picked books back in the early 80's. The dealer was upset that he might need to unwrap these gems only to try to sell them for a mere quarter. We didn't want to unwrap these either!

 

We kept these in frozen storage for over two decades, have de-thawed, a few of these and are now ready to make a few of these available.

 

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Not only is my Phishing filter freaking out about that site but the whole thing sounds like a ruse to get people to buy otherwise worthless comics.

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Apparently Reynold Jay picked up a collection that was vacuum packed and then placed in frozen storage.

 

LINK.

 

When these comics were published, RJ was busy running a booth at a Detroit convention. Being too busy to shop, he found a number of children who would fetch various comics from quarter bins and bring them to him. Some of these comics were sealed in Mylar and bagged again in vacuum bags . These were quite nice, so RJ ended up hunting up the source and buying out the dealer who had over 1000 of these rare gems. The dealer explained that the sealed items had come from an eccentric collector who had encased everything in this unusual manner.

 

Unusual indeed! Sealing brand new cherry picked books back in the early 80's. The dealer was upset that he might need to unwrap these gems only to try to sell them for a mere quarter. We didn't want to unwrap these either!

 

We kept these in frozen storage for over two decades, have de-thawed, a few of these and are now ready to make a few of these available.

 

.

 

Not only is my Phishing filter freaking out about that site but the whole thing sounds like a ruse to get people to buy otherwise worthless comics.

 

Internet Explorer's Phishing filters? Really?

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