I really like those battle lines covers and feel they’re pretty underrated
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You guys are storing your books incorrectly as far as archival professionals and paper experts are concerned. Any gases that naturally occur during the aging process have nowhere to go so it actually speeds up degradation being trapped in a bag with no board. The buffered side of the boards soaks up any of those gasses. Which is why you’re supposed to switch those out every 6-7 years. I mean I understand your going based off your experience but I’m trusting the experts on this one.
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We’re talking modern books which already are a higher quality paper, not as susceptible to the aging process. Unlike newsprint of yesteryear.
That buffer only damages the book as it sucks the ink off, far as I’m concerned. But marvel doesn’t care.
I store my older books with the mylites and egerber full backs. But never had an issue with ink rubbing off on the full backs though.
Ideally I’d store all my books that way (mylites and full backs) but economically not necessary for moderns.
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Remind me next time a really dark ink cover comes out from marvel to buy three copies and we’ll do a test.
Take photos, and check on them periodically.
1 week
1 month
3 months
6 months
1 year
Etc
Should be a fun experiment. Others should join in and we can expand the sample size. I’ll start a new thread.
This month back covers are white for marvel, so not so bad.
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Need to use those Gerber boards and not the shiny ones.
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I just store them in my freezer
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Last I checked they had a huge back order….supply chain issues…prices really jumped online.
I don’t know if that all got resolved yet.
@D-Rog You are correct. I think I posted elsewhere also on it, but I just talked to the nice ordering lady at GERBER the other day. Twelve weeks out on mylites and they aren’t even making full backs/boards currently. She didn’t foresee that changing anytime soon either.
I use thumb tacks to hang all my precious comics on the walls free of bags and boards… it’s the only way to display them!
Strings with clothes line clips work wonders too!
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I roll mine up and stack them like a pile of socks in the attic. It keeps them out of the way and you can really press them down to get all that pesky air out from between the pages.
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I ran out of closet space so all my new stuff I store on the back patio, but I used those little black metal clips with the 2 hinges to secure it closed so the wind doesn’t flip around and crease the pages.
And before you ask about rain…I stack them against the house wall, far away from the splash zone. I’m no amateur!
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I think maybe a piece of micro chamber paper inside with the the bag with the comic in it would soak up the gasses. I am in the process of switching everything over to mylites2 and fullbacks but the delays are slowing it down.
Might consider offers in excess of $1m for the original art to his birth page
I’ll give you $5 for it… 
If I was gonna spend 1 million on some art, I’m just gonna buy a nice Picasso… 
Lowballer!
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Strange Academy is going to end and relaunch in April. Time for that second year class I was speculating about before!
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Second class possibly some of the unnamed characters from #15?
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Makes sense since it’s a future tale going on in the current series
That’s good advice… for books prior to 1994, when paper quality changed. There just isn’t that much off-gassing from the paper currently used. When was the last time anyone opened a bagged book from the last 25 years and said, ‘OMG, the paper quality is horrible. This book has been gassed in the bag!!!’? Hell, just look at graded books post mid-90s. See many graded with less than white pages?
Right now, with current books, and current production methods, color rub and ink transfer is a far greater threat to condition than what you’re worrying about.
The new strange academy 1 will have 30 different store exclusives. 150k+ print run
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