Question about glued speech bubbles coming off 0

[Skizz]

The glue on this page is drying up and the speech bubbles are falling off.  The parts where the glue was has yellowed.

Would anyone more experienced give any advice on attaching these back. 

Am I okay to use normal glue stick to add these back or would that damage the art further.  

Any advice would be appreciated.

Edited February 1, 2018 by Skizz

[Sideshow Bob]

1 hour ago, Skizz said:

The glue on this page is drying up and the speech bubbles are falling off.  The parts where the glue was has yellowed.

Would anyone more experienced give any advice on attaching these back. 

Am I okay to use normal glue stick to add these back or would that damage the art further.  

Many advice would be appreciated.

 

Yes, please share, as I would also sincerely appreciate some guidance here. Some of my pages from Batman and Detective from 1983-1984 are having the same issue.

[cstojano]

I contacted a well known restorer about this issue and the quoted costs for a standard size page were 450 to clean the old glue off and remount and 75-100 to do a single bubble stat replacement. 

[Skizz]

16 hours ago, cstojano said:

I contacted a well known restorer about this issue and the quoted costs for a standard size page were 450 to clean the old glue off and remount and 75-100 to do a single bubble stat replacement. 

The difficulty is that the page itself isn’t worth more than $150 - $200.  So spent $75 for a speech per bubble seems a bit disproportionate.

Has anyone here satisfactorily re-glued falling bubbles/stats themselves. Or is that a no no and would that cause too much damage in the long run. 

[malvin]

16 minutes ago, Skizz said:

The difficulty is that the page itself isn’t worth more than $150 - $200.  So spent $75 for a speech per bubble seems a bit disproportionate.

Has anyone here satisfactorily re-glued falling bubbles/stats themselves. Or is that a no no and would that cause too much damage in the long run. 

Its been discussed many times, archival glue stick is fine.  I think I did a few early on, but haven't bothered to do so since.

Malvin

[Skizz]

5 minutes ago, malvin said:

Its been discussed many times, archival glue stick is fine.  I think I did a few early on, but haven't bothered to do so since.

Malvin

Thanks for this.

pardon my ignorance, I don’t really know what archival glue is.

I punched it in Amazon and an item came up with the description 

“Craft Bond Repositionable Glue Stick. Repositionable bond, acid-free, photo safe and non-toxic. 40g”

Would this be deemed archival glue?

 

[malvin]

15 minutes ago, Skizz said:

Thanks for this.

pardon my ignorance, I don’t really know what archival glue is.

I punched it in Amazon and an item came up with the description 

“Craft Bond Repositionable Glue Stick. Repositionable bond, acid-free, photo safe and non-toxic. 40g”

Would this be deemed archival glue?

 

yup, that works, acid free is all you need.

 

Malvin

[Pete Marino]

Thanks, I had a caption bubble fall off this weekend and was about to ask the same question.

[Khumbu1]

I had the exact same problem happen and asked some guys from Heritage at WW Chicago and that is what they said but another guy there had a different opinion and confused me. It is nice to get some confirmation.

 

[PhilipB2k17]

2 hours ago, malvin said:

Its been discussed many times, archival glue stick is fine.  I think I did a few early on, but haven't bothered to do so since.

Malvin

You want to  make sure you use archival glue that does not yellow with age, or bunch up as it hardens.

[JadeGiant]

I have a few pages that are of a similar manner - not worth as much as the cost of doing the work for the bubbles. I just keep them as is and store the bubbles that have fallen off separately. 

[Brian Peck]

I have had to reattach many word balloons and other stats to comic art. What to use is best test acids free paper cement aka rubber cement). It’s used by many artists and designers. You must apply it on the word ballon and the bristol page and let dry. Minute is good. Then apply balloon to art. It does the best job and won’t turn the paper yellow as it’s acid free.

Edited February 1, 2018 by Brian Peck

[JadeGiant]

27 minutes ago, Brian Peck said:

I have had to reattach many word balloons and other stats to comic art. What is use is best test acids free paper cement aka rubber cement). It’s used by many artists and designers. You must apply it on the word ballon and the bristol page and let dry. Minute is good. Then apply balloon to art. It does the best job and won’t turn the paper yellow as it’s acid free.

Thanks for the tip!

[chrisco37]

Back when I was collecting 100 Bullets art, had quite a few balloons come off of those.  Always used the glue stick to re-attach them.