How do you turn creme pages to white.

[jduran1]

Is that also conservation or restoration. Thanks. My point is to increase the longevity of the comic not to grade it higher.

[FFB]

By bleaching them, and yes, it is restoration.

[Timulty]

I would say it is closer to destruction.

[comicdonna]

Stick with the cream pages.

[FFB]

I would say it is closer to destruction.

 

It's not destruction if a professional who is trained in bleaching does the work using bleaching agents that are not harmful to the paper. In some cases (such as some brittle or slightly brittle books), restorers such as Tracey Heft have actually been able to restore some measure of flexibility to the pages through bleaching.

 

Any way you slice it, it is definitely restoration though.

[Timulty]

I would say it is closer to destruction.

 

It's not destruction if a professional who is trained in bleaching does the work using bleaching agents that are not harmful to the paper. In some cases (such as some brittle or slightly brittle books), restorers such as Tracey Heft have actually been able to restore some measure of flexibility to the pages through bleaching.

 

Any way you slice it, it is definitely restoration though.

I thought such agents affect the inks.

[FFB]

I would say it is closer to destruction.

 

It's not destruction if a professional who is trained in bleaching does the work using bleaching agents that are not harmful to the paper. In some cases (such as some brittle or slightly brittle books), restorers such as Tracey Heft have actually been able to restore some measure of flexibility to the pages through bleaching.

 

Any way you slice it, it is definitely restoration though.

I thought such agents affect the inks.

 

Which agents? You can bleach paper with a lot of different things, although comic book paper is a special animal because of the lignin content so only certain bleaching agents can be used. Some of them (like hydrogen peroxide) do not bleach out the inks.