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djzombi

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On 12/1/2021 at 5:39 PM, cd4ever said:

This was probably mentioned but the LCS on Main St. in KC, MO has wall after wall of books with major sun fade.  Some really big books too. All of them. 

The owner was killed in a robbery a few years ago and his wife has really stepped up to keep the place going.  It's a good store but those books...Man. 

Yeah, there was a shop near me (no longer open) that had bargain bin books in a safe nook, but a display case of keys right at the window by the entrance (not IN the window, but on the wall perpendicular to it).  All were blanched by sun fade.  :(  

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Not my book, one from the Bay, but here's a savagely sun attacked copy with a nice prominent price sticker barrier effect on offer between the B and the E of B and V (which sounds like something that a crap rap artist would say. Which itself sounds like something...)

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I like that cover too. Very clever :grin:

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On 3/21/2022 at 9:11 PM, joeypost said:

Hopefully everyone who like to “display” their slabs see this. Even with protection fading still occurs, just at a much slower rate. 

I "display" (not sure why its in quotes) mine, but all my display slabs are in these https://hotflips.com/product/mylites-2-for-cgc-graded-comics-914m2/

As long as E-Gerber isn't lying to me, apparently its made of a special type of Mylar which is supposed to be 99% UV Resistant https://www.egerber.com/aboutpreservation2.htm

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So long as you display comics out of sunlight, using non-UV bulbs, rotate them in out of display, and keep track of color quality using reference photos (also key for foxing), you should generally be ok.  Use of a UV filtering material, like Optium museum acrylic, also would be wise.  Lots of art collectors display posters, prints, and water colors with no damage.  

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On 5/4/2022 at 2:33 PM, Bludriver said:

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Your avatar has a touch of the sun fade about it, Bludriver:

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You didn't used to be Purpledriver, did you, but spent some time parked in a south facing window?

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On 5/19/2022 at 8:29 AM, gadzukes said:

The red is faded so much it's hard to read what's in the text balloon/boxes.

Don't you just want to get out your red marker and help this cover out a little? 

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Owned a copy of Avengers #1 for about a day that looked just like that: really bad fade and you couldn't read the text CGC 4.0 signed by Stan Lee. Traded it straight across for a CGC 7.0 Hulk 181 

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