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The pressing job to end all pressing jobs

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lhcomics

lhcomics

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I was standing right next to joey in Chicago when the dealer (was it leroy?) gave it to you...fun stuff

 

Yes, I gave it to Joey. Very nicely done indeed.

 

This comic came from a 1 owner collection out of St. Louis about 5 years ago. I still have somewhere about another 15 comics from that collection that are still in the brown mailing wrapper and folded the same. If I recall correctly Marvel Mystery, Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Action and Detective were none of the titles still wrapped up. More like Dagwood and Lil Genius comics.

 

Anyway when I find them I'll let Joey have a crack at them.

 

Leroy

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I was standing right next to joey in Chicago when the dealer (was it leroy?) gave it to you...fun stuff

 

Yes, I gave it to Joey. Very nicely done indeed.

 

This comic came from a 1 owner collection out of St. Louis about 5 years ago. I still have somewhere about another 15 comics from that collection that are still in the brown mailing wrapper and folded the same. If I recall correctly Marvel Mystery, Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Action and Detective were none of the titles still wrapped up. More like Dagwood and Lil Genius comics.

 

Anyway when I find them I'll let Joey have a crack at them.

 

Leroy

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Front cover after tacking the interior pages and 1 pressing using little heat and very little moisture. Inks are very oxidized and I fear using any more heat or moisture on the book. may hit it one more time to get it to lay completely flat.

 

The inks don't look at all oxidized. If they were oxidized, they'd be faded. Are they flaking or something? Is that what you mean?

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Front cover after tacking the interior pages and 1 pressing using little heat and very little moisture. Inks are very oxidized and I fear using any more heat or moisture on the book. may hit it one more time to get it to lay completely flat.

 

The inks don't look at all oxidized. If they were oxidized, they'd be faded. Are they flaking or something? Is that what you mean?

 

I would be very curious to see if a second pressing would improve the flatness of the book. So far for me a second pressing hasn't improved the book beyond the first pressing..

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VintageComics

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A valiant effort, Joey!

 

:applause:

 

I had an early 1970's bronze book that I bought a while back. The book looked like it was rolled up into a tube and then "scrunched" in the middle by a clenched fist. Just like a comic is supposed to look after a kid is done with it.

 

:roflmao:

 

I bought it for next to nothing on a whim. The book ended up pressing into a CGC 9.8.

 

lol

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Front cover after tacking the interior pages and 1 pressing using little heat and very little moisture. Inks are very oxidized and I fear using any more heat or moisture on the book. may hit it one more time to get it to lay completely flat.

 

The inks don't look at all oxidized. If they were oxidized, they'd be faded. Are they flaking or something? Is that what you mean?

 

A great deal of the color in areas seemed powdery. If I wiped the book down with a clean cotton cloth I would get what appeared to be dust (the same colors as the book). After pressing some of the black was flaking off but I attributed this to the little bit of water damage the book had to begin with.

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Front cover after tacking the interior pages and 1 pressing using little heat and very little moisture. Inks are very oxidized and I fear using any more heat or moisture on the book. may hit it one more time to get it to lay completely flat.

 

The inks don't look at all oxidized. If they were oxidized, they'd be faded. Are they flaking or something? Is that what you mean?

 

A great deal of the color in areas seemed powdery. If I wiped the book down with a clean cotton cloth I would get what appeared to be dust (the same colors as the book). After pressing some of the black was flaking off but I attributed this to the little bit of water damage the book had to begin with.

 

Don't know much about pressing. Can you explain what "tacking the interior pages" means.

 

Thanks

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A valiant effort, Joey!

 

:applause:

 

I had an early 1970's bronze book that I bought a while back. The book looked like it was rolled up into a tube and then "scrunched" in the middle by a clenched fist. Just like a comic is supposed to look after a kid is done with it.

 

:roflmao:

 

I bought it for next to nothing on a whim. The book ended up pressing into a CGC 9.8.

 

lol

 

^^

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