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will restoration lesson the value of my comic
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It depends on how much you can improve the look of the book.  Without more info, I would expect the value to stay the same or drop.  Here’s why.

A restored book will typically sell for half (or less) the price of the same grade unrestored.  If you have a magician doing restoration, and they bump the grade from 2.0 unrestored to 9.0 restored (which is NOT a likely scenario, to say the least), then you’ll have a book that has increased in value.  

However, you say the pages are “dark”.  If they are already brown and maybe even brittle, restoration won’t fix that.  It sounds to me like you have a book that can’t be improved much beyond the 2.0 it has now.  If you restore it to a 3.0, you will have lost value.

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Restoration is the part of the hobby that takes the most experience to get right from a money perspective.  If finances are a factor and you don’t have the relevant knowledge or experience to estimate type/amount of restoration to be done and the possible range of restored grades and an estimated price range, don’t get it restored. 
 

but for more info load a ton of pics and get opinions 

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