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Just bought the grossest, most disgusting collection
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Purchased as a lot from a boardie many years ago - The mothball smell was so bad it tainted nearby boxes.

I interleaved them with micro-chamber paper, and put them in a box with cat litter with no results. I then put them in micro-chamber trimmings for years. 

Luckily, I had the Covid, so I can't smell them any more. At Jimmers direction, I threw a few dryer sheets in the box a couple weeks ago.

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I probably should have thrown these books out, but I'm glad I didn't, as there are some gems in that there stinky Charlton box.

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I've bought collections with rat poop and cat pee. Yuck.

The most insane nasty story was the one where I went to Happy Valley in Northern CA to pick up a pulp collection.
As soon as I get there this guy greets me and says he's selling his parents magazines.

Tells me his parents died in a honey oil accident. Shows me the blown up trailer on the property. Looked like a huge bomb blew up right in the middle of it.

Says he got out of prison recently and there is no water or electricity on the property.

Has a stack of pulps and tells me there's more in the barn. It's dark in there so he says he will get a flashlight. While I'm looking in there I can hear outside screaming and yelling fighting over a flashlight.

The person who greeted me earlier starts yelling at a woman he's fighting with, "I said you can stay here if you sleep with my brother."
At this moment I can see transients have been sleeping in the barn. Sleeping bags, excrement, food wrappers. I saw some older magazines but, it simply wasn't worth it.

As the fighting escalated I got in my car and got out of there, told him I would contact him later.

 
 
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23 minutes ago, lizards2 said:

Purchased as a lot from a boardie many years ago - The mothball smell was so bad it tainted nearby boxes.

I interleaved them with micro-chamber paper, and put them in a box with cat litter with no results. I then put them in micro-chamber trimmings for years. 

Luckily, I had the Covid, so I can't smell them any more. At Jimmers direction, I threw a few dryer sheets in the box a couple weeks ago.

 

 

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I probably should have thrown these books out, but I'm glad I didn't, as there are some gems in that there stinky Charlton box.

I had some mildewy westerns a few years back. I placed a tupperware container in the center of a storage tote and then stacked the comics on top of the container to elevate them, surrounded the container with a moat of baking soda and then put the lid on the tote and left the comics for a month. Cracked open the tote and the mildewy odor was gone! 

It's also refreshing to see a thread where "stinky Charltons" refers to their actual odor and not the writing and art.

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Please use gloves, and please whatever you do, don't use Fabreze. There is nothing worse than books that smell (especially from cigarettes) that now have 2 smells...

Looks like fun, as long as you do this project outside, I'm with your wife!

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1 hour ago, Black_Adam said:

I had some mildewy westerns a few years back. I placed a tupperware container in the center of a storage tote and then stacked the comics on top of the container to elevate them, surrounded the container with a moat of baking soda and then put the lid on the tote and left the comics for a month. Cracked open the tote and the mildewy odor was gone! 

It's also refreshing to see a thread where "stinky Charltons" refers to their actual odor and not the writing and art.

the term "stinky Charltons" is very inclusive. :) 

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8 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

Got the whole Weapon X series from Marvel Comics Presents.  The 72 has the "color loss" on the free edge.  Is that a manufacturing defect?  I've noticed about 1 in 5 copies have the exact same defect.

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I couldn't find any examples of graded copies with that defect, so I'm not sure how CGC will treat it, but I can definitely confirm that it's production related, and that there is a nontrivial percentage of the book's run that looks exactly like that.

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6 minutes ago, Qalyar said:

I couldn't find any examples of graded copies with that defect, so I'm not sure how CGC will treat it, but I can definitely confirm that it's production related, and that there is a nontrivial percentage of the book's run that looks exactly like that.

This CGC 9.6 has it to a smaller extent.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Marvel-Comics-Marvel-Comics-Presents-72-Origin-of-Weapon-X-CGC-9-6-NM-/203326137405?hash=item2f572ea43d%3Ag%3AZpQAAOSwG95gYkTZ&nma=true&si=LKlgAEw5%2B92i9SJNFUVTl%2FOmp%2Fs%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

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21 minutes ago, gadzukes said:

Got the whole Weapon X series from Marvel Comics Presents.  The 72 has the "color loss" on the free edge.  Is that a manufacturing defect?  I've noticed about 1 in 5 copies have the exact same defect.

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Are these worth the hassel though? the books arent worth sending in unless you get 9.8

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