PGM Albi di Pippo n.6 (italian comic, 1949)

[vaillant]

Here’s another one.

This one is comic book sized, landscape format.

 

This series, as many others of the same period, has the cover paper which is the same stock of the inside pages, only a bit thicker, and thus was more bound to get ruined. This is in pretty impressive condition, not common to find them in such a nice shape and with white paper.

 

Main defects:

 

– very minor spine creasing (mostly BC);

– very small stainsdue to humidity (not much taken into account here with such books).

 

High res: http://i.imgur.com/AOcKDQz.jpg

 

High res: http://i.imgur.com/PiVmGiP.jpg

[timfinz]

8.5 IMHO!

[marvelcollector]

7.5

 

One wonders with the "self wrap" of modern comics how well they'll hold up in 20-40 years...

[vaillant]

What is the "self wrap": you mean when the cover extends and can be fold out? (usually with an ad or an extended cover image)?

[marvelcollector]

It means the cover is actually made of the same paper stock as the interior pages.

[vaillant]

Ah, OK – yes I don’t think coated paper holds so well, not as expected anyway, and it all depends on the paper.

 

All I can say is that I left for about 15-18 years my Gladstone and Disney comics in my attic. Some were bagged, some not. Among those not bagged, a number (they changed paper stock a bit of times in the 1990s) had… BRITTLE COVERS!

 

Covers were some kind of coated paper, I became fully aware of that because most books were NM, and when I opened one quite quickly… the cover remained in my hand (the book in the other).

 

Well, if it takes just 15 years to develop brittleness with some kind of paper, and under pretty ordinary circumstances, I guess that after all, even the poorer GA paper stock might have been better.

[vaillant]

Would love to hear some other opinion on this – pleease!

[vaillant]

Please…