Ze-man

Nice to see so many old schoolers posting here, I am not that hard to find! Was just texting with Sardo on insta today about how Ellen's a Sophomore at IU now and smarter than all of "you's guys" And Greggy, you cant post in this thread, but you can text me.

There is resto in other places too, the top staples looks to be reinforced. Something was done to the left of the Green hand, to the right of the word TIME. There's likely more in other places too, its typical to find more if something like re writing FAN, was done

Thanks @EmilC !! , as well as @skypinkblu and @faster friends And fwiw, I didnt just take this from Ellens closet and post it. I told her about Paul, his situation and her first reaction was that she wanted to list it to help him.

I totally agree, we are forever grateful to the CGC Board Community for all the support, and financial help we received when my son was Diagnosed with COATS years ago. And while I haven t been online at all in recent years, not a week goes by I don't think about this goofy place and boardies that opened the world of Comic Books to me. Paul was among those early on at CGC who was not only nice to me, but went out of his way to help a "new guy" find his way. So if ever there was a guy who deserves some help..it's Paul. I wish you all the best in your full recovery Paul. I have for auction a Disney Animation Cel. All sales going to Pauls GoFunme. This was given to my Daughter(Ellen) by the immortal Nikos. I had bought several comics from Nik over the years, became friends, he knew of my ellens love of Disney and literally shipped this cel to me for Ellens room. Wouldn't let me pay for it of course. Typical Nikos! Having no idea of its real value aside from it being an animation Cel, Value is hard to determine because of the Nikos factor. So if its ok with the Boards, I will start bidding at $100 with $25 incremental bids. With bidding ending Ending 24 hours from this post. Or a BIN of $500 if you wanna step up and help Paul! Thanks to all involved and feel better Paul!! Kenny

It was joke. Tony was saying a professional who knows what they are doing could do more with that book. Yet it was posted on a professionals website offering said service. I guess we need to determine what the word professional actually means.

Not nearly enough!!

You guys do realize these photos were posted on a website offering a professional service.

Regardless of just looking at the photos and realizing it's the same book. He posted BC scans too, with pieces missing. Sometimes the easiest answer is actually the correct one.

It can of course happen if you put on anything "too thickly" It can be the thickness of whatever is applied, as much as what's applied. If a book looks, feels too thickly glossed in hand it'll typically get pegged as re glossed.

This. The tape was removed, but likely some of the adhesive remained and in some way is still "sealing the tear". It could be as easy as "popping" open the tear again. Or removing whatever adhesive residue remains to ensure it doesn't get pegged as resto, and or prevent the pages and cover from sticking together down the road. Should be an easy enough task. Just a costly one with additional shipping, and re slabbing fees. :-( I'd be happy to remove it for you free of charge if it helps ease the sting of "finding out the hard way" We've all been there.

What would take 10 seconds to spot in person, can take 25 photos online. But since the OP hasn't been back in 3 weeks, I think we're spending way too much time trying to figure out what this is, based on what we have because we're comic dorks! That said, I've removed glue from hundreds of GA books, and it doesn't ever look like this. Doesn't mean there isn't anything here, There's simply too much gloss, glare, wrinkles, peaks and valleys to really say what's going on here without more info. And with GA coverstock being so thick?...all kinds of things are possible with creases and bends. Here's the photo edited to better show what may or may not be there.

In regards to reinforced. This is typically always referring to a form of thin japan mending "tissue" applied with wheat paste to seal spine splits..or reinforcing weak areas. Because this mending tissue is typically so thin it isn't considered "piecefill" because its applied more like a tape. As opposed to actually filling in missing original material with thicker donor papers in an effort to make the cover whole again, be it gaps in spine, missing corners, top/bottom spine areas.etc..etc That said, since leaf casting can achieve what both reinforced mending tissue, and piece fill do at the same time. Only a small amount of casting is considered conservation, rather then restoration. I personally think if you leaf cast a brittle interior, filling in missing material along the way, it's still conso. But I believe I am still in the minority on that.

Note to self, don't give out resto advice based on a few photos! Doh!

CGC wont label what you are speaking of as "re glossed", those are natural occurring elements found in paper and comics. It's the thick, fixative, harmful sprays/lacquers that CGC pegs as re glossed.

I would disagree that wheat paste, or CT was applied to this interior cover. FC photos would certainly help, but I've seen a lot of GA books that have bleed through for assorted reasons during production. More(better) photos would help a lot because guessing at what were seeing wont the OP much.

I think you need to keep in mind that your label is listed as Slight/Mod, with work done listed as not being professional. And based on your notes, and looking at the book it seems pretty spot on. Its not all Slight, nor is anything Extensive, its somewhere in between. Slight/Mod. C-2 And you could of course have more resto done to make the book look better, grade higher. But the fact that it's been trimmed, and has had some sort of glossing agent applied to the cover will keep overall value down no matter how high an apparent grade you can achieve through more aesthetic work. But that's of course a personal decision , risk/reward and all that.

Ok, so let me get this straight. If I am reading your post correctly, and didn't get lost in your verbose explanation of how to press foil covers. You say you figured it out..does that sum up your post accurately? I don't want to put words in your mouth.

As well as washed off the kaolin clay on the surface leaving behind a rough surface. On SA books like this I always preferred to call this water damage , rather then a water stain.

Just to be clear, the inks they used to print comics with were Cyan , Magenta, Yellow, and Black. The browns on this book were created using a dot matrix mix of these. And Mr Transplant wont be eating any covers, this is clearly a reproduction copy made from scans of a restored AF 15. The interior photo top edge overhang is the tell, its bone white. If it was done by Matt back in the day, he used scans of restored copies to use as "repro covers" so people would not try and sell the comic as a flawless original. And if they did try and pawn it off as original it would at least have to be sold as "restored" Or at least that's how I understood it.

The fact that you do not know the extent of the restoration will not only put off many buyers from bidding, it will also hurt your bottom line for those that do bid. If a book only has Slight CT done, buyers will pay more because the book is "closer to original" when compared to books with Extensive work done. People want Original ,not Frankenbooks. Unless the book is a HUGE key, and sooo expensive that Ext. restored is the only price point many collectors can afford. So if you have several keys with resto, I would send them in to be graded. This will not only allow you to represent the book accurately when listing them, but net better results at auction

Agree, I suppose its just hard for me to take off my "collector hat" mentality. And remember that back then, they were just comic books. Not collectibles!

Keep in mind too that Action 1 and Tec 27 were bought and read by a wide variety of readers back in the day. Most not being aware of what a Superhero even was. So it would make sense that many copies were probably trashed after making the neighborhood rounds of trading. With Batman 1, and Supes 1 being stand alone books, printed at bigger numbers due to extreme popularity I could see a lot more initial comic buyers keeping these books for a longer period of time..even if they cut off the back covers or not.

Interiors? I'm going to have to Google that now to see what this is all about.

This I dont get, how can you enjoy a comic book if CGC has'nt first told you what their opinion is of it? You act like comic books were meant to be handled, sniffed, and read?