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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2024 15:23:37 GMT -5
I was looking at a seller's feedback as he has an item of interest....but he's being slagged of for one thing, his books reek of cigarettes. I've never had that problem but don't want to buy a HC smelling like that even if it looks in great shape.
Any of you have books like that? How do you remove the smell? I used to be a very light smoker socially and dropped that about 20 years ago - but no one ever complained about my books that way.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 11, 2024 16:00:26 GMT -5
I was looking at a seller's feedback as he has an item of interest....but he's being slagged of for one thing, his books reek of cigarettes. I've never had that problem but don't want to buy a HC smelling like that even if it looks in great shape. Any of you have books like that? How do you remove the smell? I used to be a very light smoker socially and dropped that about 20 years ago - but no one ever complained about my books that way. One of my con friends, who runs a vintage toy store has been posting frequently lately to folks to not even bother bringing in vintage toys that reek of cigarette smoke because he won't buy them. The smell is almost impossible to get out of the plastic, it discolors the plastic (yellowing it) and makes them virtually impossible to resell, so he won't buy them (and neither will about a half dozen other dealers who responded to his thread ont he matter. I'm not sure if it is any easier to get the smell out of paper than plastic, but if the pages were exposed to the smoke in the environment, they may well have yellowed as well, something you can't see form picture of the covers online. I know Crimebuster has tried several methods of removing odors (mostly must not smoke), to varying degrees of success, but I'm not sure if any of them would work with smoky books. If I am buying a book in person and there is a hint of smoke odor on the bag or the book, I won't buy it, and if I bought one online that reeked of it, it would be cause for me to try out the return policy of the seller, especially if it was not disclosed in the listing. -M |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 11, 2024 16:28:28 GMT -5
In the most recent podcast , I mentioned that I tore an Uncle Scrooge comic in half. It had a moldy smell and it was making me sick. Turns out it was a first appearance of Madam mcevil duck woman or something. It didn't
matter, I wasn’t going to make myself sick to keep it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 11, 2024 17:34:02 GMT -5
I once bought a book that the listening said came from a smoker's house. The price was good and I figured it couldn't be that bad, unless they were chain smoking, while reading it. When it arrived, it reeked of it. I fans the pages for a bit, then sprayed Lysol around the book and let it settle onto the pages, then left the book open, to air out. After a while, the smell was gone, or enough of it that it wasn't noxious. Paper does absorb odors and other elements in the smoke. How badly it is affected depends on the type of paper and the degree of contamination. Newsprint soaks everything up and tends to be thin and brittle. Higher quality papers are more robust; but, cigarette smoke has all kinds of crap in it and even they will give in.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 11, 2024 17:38:17 GMT -5
People that smoked a lot and read comics never knew that it would affect the selling of it later. Maybe they never cared about selling.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 11, 2024 17:39:25 GMT -5
I won't buy such books because I handle my comics with my mouth and those books taste like tobacco too. Blechh!
Cei-U!
I summon the barf bags!
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Jan 11, 2024 17:42:31 GMT -5
In the most recent podcast , I mentioned that I tore an Uncle Scrooge comic in half. It had a moldy smell and it was making me sick. Turns out it was a first appearance of Madam mcevil duck woman or something. It didn't matter, I wasn’t going to make myself sick to keep it. I find it interesting how times change-when I got a hold of my first Overstreet Guide in the mid-80s, their lists of most valuable books had more Barks Ducks on it than Marvel books. I think only FF1 and AF 15 had values listed higher than the early Barks Duck Four Colors. Now most collectors wouldn't even think to name a Barks Duck book in their list of most valuable books. The guy who owned that first LCS I went to, was a big Ducks and EC collector who started his shop in the ealry 70s and had been active in mail order catalogs and sci-fi fandom dating back to the 60s. He was friends with a lot of the CT based creators (Giordano, Aparo, Byrne at the time, etc.) and he would happily tade multiple Marvel Silver keys to get high grade Barks Ducks or EC books he needed for his own collection. There's been a huge paradigm shift over the last 40 years as to what draws collectors as the older collectors who wanted EC and Ducks aged out and died off, and I wonder what kind of paradigm shift we'll see when the same happens to the OG super-hero collectors generation, and what might become the grails of that next generation wave. -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 11, 2024 19:49:23 GMT -5
In the most recent podcast , I mentioned that I tore an Uncle Scrooge comic in half. It had a moldy smell and it was making me sick. Turns out it was a first appearance of Madam mcevil duck woman or something. It didn't matter, I wasn’t going to make myself sick to keep it. I find it interesting how times change-when I got a hold of my first Overstreet Guide in the mid-80s, their lists of most valuable books had more Barks Ducks on it than Marvel books. I think only FF1 and AF 15 had values listed higher than the early Barks Duck Four Colors. Now most collectors wouldn't even think to name a Barks Duck book in their list of most valuable books. The guy who owned that first LCS I went to, was a big Ducks and EC collector who started his shop in the ealry 70s and had been active in mail order catalogs and sci-fi fandom dating back to the 60s. He was friends with a lot of the CT based creators (Giordano, Aparo, Byrne at the time, etc.) and he would happily tade multiple Marvel Silver keys to get high grade Barks Ducks or EC books he needed for his own collection. There's been a huge paradigm shift over the last 40 years as to what draws collectors as the older collectors who wanted EC and Ducks aged out and died off, and I wonder what kind of paradigm shift we'll see when the same happens to the OG super-hero collectors generation, and what might become the grails of that next generation wave. -M Something tells me it won't be Youngblood. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 11, 2024 20:14:52 GMT -5
In the most recent podcast , I mentioned that I tore an Uncle Scrooge comic in half. It had a moldy smell and it was making me sick. Turns out it was a first appearance of Madam mcevil duck woman or something. Now THAT's a reason to get a comic slabbed! Twice, if the smell is really bad!  |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 11, 2024 20:19:23 GMT -5
While I hate the smell of cigarette smoke, I associate the smell of cherry-flavoured pipe tobacco to the place I used to buy comics when visiting my grandma. That and old newsprint were the smell of happiness.
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Post by jason on Jan 11, 2024 21:49:43 GMT -5
So I'm reading The Martian, and the main character makes a random question at one point:
"How come Aquaman can control whales? They're mammals! Makes no sense"
So, has this ever been explained?
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 11, 2024 22:11:55 GMT -5
So I'm reading The Martian, and the main character makes a random question at one point: "How come Aquaman can control whales? They're mammals! Makes no sense" So, has this ever been explained? The whales humor him. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 11, 2024 22:44:34 GMT -5
I always pictured that he didn't control any sea life, but just mentally talked to them and talked them into helping him...mammal or not doesn't matter that way.
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Post by zaku on Jan 12, 2024 2:19:30 GMT -5
So I'm reading The Martian, and the main character makes a random question at one point: "How come Aquaman can control whales? They're mammals! Makes no sense" So, has this ever been explained? The whales humor him. In the new 52 he admitted that convincing whales and dolphins was "hard". |
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 12, 2024 2:38:41 GMT -5
So I'm reading The Martian, and the main character makes a random question at one point: "How come Aquaman can control whales? They're mammals! Makes no sense" So, has this ever been explained? Yes. Aquaman can communicate telepathically with *any* form of animal life that lives in or above the oceans: fish, birds, mammals, reptiles, mollusks, crustaceans, coelenterates, even plankton theoretically (though I can't imagine plankton being much use to him).
Check out this panel from his origin in Adventure Comics #260:
Sorry it's so small, but it shows fish, whales, turtles, octopi, and other sea critters paying him homage.
Cei-U! I summon the lowdown!
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