Cleaning a cover without a restored grade? 1 1

[James J Johnson]

11 minutes ago, Krishosein said:

very interesting learned of something new to watch at. I guess if we got a pic of the 1st page would u see if the ink from the first page transferred to the inside FC?

Question would there be a detectable difference in texture on the cover then as the dried ink should leave a texture is my thought where the bleed through would be smoother to the page?

Depends. Tough to answer without closer scrutiny, being able to rotate for raking the light at different angles, and by touch. As Joey pointed out, could be a combination of the two. Black color touch and transference. Without a pic of the splash page to envision a transparency, to plot the dark ink elements of the splash, and where they would line up to the inside front cover, it's all just a guess. But the exclusion of discernable color touch anywhere along the spine certainly would be unusual, as books with color touch typically have it at the spine first, and anywhere else later as the norm.

[Krismusic]

19 minutes ago, James J Johnson said:

Depends. Tough to answer without closer scrutiny, being able to rotate for raking the light at different angles, and by touch. As Joey pointed out, could be a combination of the two. Black color touch and transference. Without a pic of the splash page to envision a transparency, to plot the dark ink elements of the splash, and where they would line up to the inside front cover, it's all just a guess. But the exclusion of discernable color touch anywhere along the spine certainly would be unusual, as books with color touch typically have it at the spine first, and anywhere else later as the norm.

thanks for the info

[thehumantorch]

7 hours ago, Mxwll Smrt said:

8 hours ago, thehumantorch said:

And that's where I'm at.  The last photo shows an image that might be  transfer from the first interior page of the comic or from the outside cover

It really didn't look like that's where it was from.... plus there were impressions on the interior cover which made it look like a pen...

It could also be transference from some other printed item that sat between the cover and the first page or some other source, this is a 60 year old comic and it's tough to know what's happened to it.  As someone else pointed out there are obvious defects on the cover that weren't color touched and surely with all that 'bleed through' all over the inside cover those would have been worked on.