kav Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 (edited) Has termite hole thru entire book. Edited December 22, 2018 by kav KobaltDog and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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timfinz Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 (edited) Spoiler 2.5 IMHO Nice book but tough to grade as the defect is unusual and unique. I've not come across it previously. Edited December 23, 2018 by timern KobaltDog and kav 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KobaltDog Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 I've never seen a through-and-through termite chew maybe treated like a hole punch? FoggyNelson and 1950's war comics 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conan09279 Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 2.5-3.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted December 23, 2018 Author Share Posted December 23, 2018 1 hour ago, KobaltDog said: I've never seen a through-and-through termite chew maybe treated like a hole punch? This was from the termite pedigree-my brother's collection when he went in air force sat in my closet. Went to open one day and riddled with termites. They like the oldest books so GA supermans got the attention they deserve. #34 was completely chewed around so it was just a stack of pages no spine. They are completely random in their chewin-sometimes a book is riddled like swiss cheese, sometimes a single hole like this baby. The Lions Den and KobaltDog 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbrown7080 Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, kav said: Has termite hole thru entire book. True story... I always assumed that defect was something like a tiny hot piece of steel fell on the book and burnt completely through it. I've got a couple books with the same "Termite" holes....but to me that were so small and so perfectly through the book, I honestly just thought the owner of the book was a mechanic or worked in a shop and was cutting steel and A tiny piece flew a landed on the book and burnt a perfect little hole threw the book... buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut Your explanation of termite holes make a hell of a lot more sense anybody know if there is a limit to the highest grade a comic can get with a Termite Hole?> Edited December 24, 2018 by billbrown7080 KobaltDog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted December 24, 2018 Author Share Posted December 24, 2018 (edited) On 12/23/2018 at 4:20 PM, billbrown7080 said: True story... I always assumed that defect was something like a tiny hot piece of steel fell on the book and burnt completely through it. I've got a couple books with the same "Termite" holes....but to me that were so small and so perfectly through the book, I honestly just thought the owner of the book was a mechanic or worked in a shop and was cutting steel and A tiny piece flew a landed on the book and burnt a perfect little hole threw the book... buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut Your explanation of termite holes make a hell of a lot more sense anybody know if there is a limit to the highest grade a comic can get with a Termite Hole?> sadly I am an expert on termites and their eating patterns. My duplex was consumed by them. I could recognize their presence by a slight bubbling in the wall-stick my finger in and it passes thru-then chunks of wall pull right out seething with termites. Looked just fine except for that slight bulge. I know that a stack of magazines can look perfectly fine, and you pick it up and its just a thin hollow shell, glued together by termite paste-interior completely gone. Yes they will eat a clean surgical hole right thru a book and leave the uninitiated baffled- @oakman29 can tell U Edited December 25, 2018 by kav The Lions Den and FoggyNelson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1950's war comics Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 probably still a 2.0 even with termite piercing but i don't know how CGC would grade it ?? FoggyNelson and kav 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoggyNelson Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 That was a hungry bug😲😲🎶‼️Good condition 1950's war comics and kav 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnkurJ Posted December 24, 2018 Share Posted December 24, 2018 2.0 kav 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted December 25, 2018 Author Share Posted December 25, 2018 7 hours ago, AnkurJ said: 2.0 Do you think its really that low? Here's a 2.0 that the cover is a wreck, dirty, split spine and entire corner chewed off: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 Fortunately it is not a termite hole, termites only feed on unprotected/ unprocessed wood. Milled paper is far from unprocessed paper. It doesn't actually look like a pest at all. Silverfish would only invade the top piece of the paper, and a rat would eat a lot more than that small piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted December 25, 2018 Author Share Posted December 25, 2018 17 minutes ago, oakman29 said: Fortunately it is not a termite hole, termites only feed on unprotected/ unprocessed wood. Milled paper is far from unprocessed paper. It doesn't actually look like a pest at all. Silverfish would only invade the top piece of the paper, and a rat would eat a lot more than that small piece. Um oak, I pulled those comics out and they were riddled with live termites actively chewing on them!!! Definitely termites eat processed paper!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 7 minutes ago, kav said: Um oak, I pulled those comics out and they were riddled with live termites actively chewing on them!!! Definitely termites eat processed paper!!!! Are you sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted December 25, 2018 Author Share Posted December 25, 2018 There were chewed tunnels and termite droppings gluing books together-the whole gamut of termite activity!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted December 25, 2018 Author Share Posted December 25, 2018 Just now, oakman29 said: Are you sure? You have no idea how sure I am-I still have nightmares about termites and....the QUEEN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted December 25, 2018 Author Share Posted December 25, 2018 I visibly watched in horror as termites chewed the paper in real time-RIGHT IN FRONT OF MINE EYES!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kav Posted December 25, 2018 Author Share Posted December 25, 2018 These were subterranean termites if that makes a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakman29 Posted December 25, 2018 Share Posted December 25, 2018 7 minutes ago, kav said: You have no idea how sure I am-I still have nightmares about termites and....the QUEEN! That is surprising. Well I guess the only rule in the pest world is there are no rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
