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Post by Confessor on Nov 9, 2016 19:49:13 GMT -5
Thinking of investing in some Mylites and have two questions for those who use them.
Firstly, do you tape the flap down on your Mylites or are you even meant to (and if not, doesn't having it open leave your comic vulnerable to dust, damp etc).
Secondly, the Mylites I've seen on eBay are 2mm thick; how much thicker is that than a regular poly bag, and how many Mylited and boarded comics would fit in a standard comic box (a box that would usually hold around 250 bagged but unboarded books)?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2016 19:54:13 GMT -5
Thinking of investing in some Mylites and have two questions for those who use them. Firstly, do you tape the flap down on your Mylites or are you even meant to (and if not, doesn't having it open leave your comic vulnerable to dust, damp etc). Secondly, the Mylites I've seen on eBay are 2mm thick; how much thicker is that than a regular poly bag, and how many Mylited and boarded comics would fit in a standard comic box (a box that would usually hold around 250 bagged but unboarded books)? Tips here comicspectrumblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/storing-your-comics-bags-boards-boxes-oh-my/
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Post by Confessor on Nov 9, 2016 20:10:07 GMT -5
Thinking of investing in some Mylites and have two questions for those who use them. Firstly, do you tape the flap down on your Mylites or are you even meant to (and if not, doesn't having it open leave your comic vulnerable to dust, damp etc). Secondly, the Mylites I've seen on eBay are 2mm thick; how much thicker is that than a regular poly bag, and how many Mylited and boarded comics would fit in a standard comic box (a box that would usually hold around 250 bagged but unboarded books)? Tips here comicspectrumblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/storing-your-comics-bags-boards-boxes-oh-my/Thanks for the link, but that page doesn't actually answer my two questions...lol! I'm not new to bagging & boarding or comic storage boxes, but I've never used Gerber Mylites before and want info from someone who actually uses them.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 9, 2016 20:24:31 GMT -5
Thinking of investing in some Mylites and have two questions for those who use them. Firstly, do you tape the flap down on your Mylites or are you even meant to (and if not, doesn't having it open leave your comic vulnerable to dust, damp etc). Secondly, the Mylites I've seen on eBay are 2mm thick; how much thicker is that than a regular poly bag, and how many Mylited and boarded comics would fit in a standard comic box (a box that would usually hold around 250 bagged but unboarded books)? I had used Gerber's archival products from the very beginning when h opened shop decades ago. Heavy duty mylars, mylites, acid free boxes and boards. The works Never taped the mylites. Kept them in boxes. No dust, no muss
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2016 20:35:29 GMT -5
I use them, there is a foldover flap which can be tucked in the back or alternatively, tape is optional if you want to seal each bag.
The 2mm bag is noticeably thicker and more glossy than regular poly plastic but would still need a board to prevent bending. A 4mm bag, in comparison, is strong enough to not need one (cool for front and back cover displays).
You might be able to fit about 175-200 or so in that box without boards...but i don't box anything without a board.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 9, 2016 21:09:45 GMT -5
I use them, there is a foldover flap which can be tucked in the back or alternatively, tape is optional if you want to seal each bag. The 2mm bag is noticeably thicker and more glossy than regular poly plastic but would still need a board to prevent bending. A 4mm bag, in comparison, is strong enough to not need one (cool for front and back cover displays). You might be able to fit about 175-200 or so in that box without boards...but i don't box anything without a board. Yeah, I think I'd board them as well as put them in Mylites. I'm doing this for my Bronze Age Star Wars run which is mostly in high grade, NM condition (with a few VFs scattered throughout). It's the jewel of my collection, so I want to treat it to some decent bags & boards. I like he idea of taping the bags or at least tucking the flaps into the back, like you suggest, just for added piece of mind. Having them with "flaps open" just seems risky to me, although I'm sure that Ish is right that no harm would come to them, since they're inside a sealed comic box. But still... Thanks for this info, Razormaid.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 9, 2016 22:48:39 GMT -5
i would say, depending on how many time you're going to handle the merchandise , is how you should store them. For my old collection, once they were in their box, I probably was not going to touch them for many years. So the boxes were full (not too tight however) to prevent them from flapping around. I would place a backing board for every 30 or so issues. if you're going to access them constantly, more precautions would be smart
I also treated the comics differently depending on age and value. Golden and silver age books where in the heavier mylars. Valuable books also had individual acid free backing boards. Bronze age books were in mylites. Books 20 years old or less were completely nude. I didn't see the value in spending extra money for most of them. Of course there were exceptions
I used short boxes for the oldest books,long boxes for the newer books
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2016 17:52:59 GMT -5
Books 20 years old or less were completely nude. I bought silver age books from a collector who had his books packed away boxes in a cool dark environment ever since he purchased them from the newsagent racks in the 60s, and they were completely nude too. For over 45 years. When I got them, they were still well within the 8.0 - 8.5 grade. I was surprised, and he was surprised his dearly departed collection was bought by a girl. I've since clothed them with mylites of course.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 10, 2016 18:29:30 GMT -5
Books 20 years old or less were completely nude. I bought silver age books from a collector who had his books packed away boxes in a cool dark environment ever since he purchased them from the newsagent racks in the 60s, and they were completely nude too. For over 45 years. When I got them, they were still well within the 8.0 - 8.5 grade. I was surprised, and he was surprised his dearly departed collection was bought by a girl. I've since clothed them with mylites of course. Yet more evidence that expensive, acid-free bags and boards are little more than snake oil. Unfortunately, it's snake oil that my nerd OCD demands I buy into.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 10, 2016 18:59:26 GMT -5
Yet more evidence that expensive, acid-free bags and boards are little more than snake oil. Unfortunately, it's snake oil that my nerd OCD demands I buy into. I have a small house, so most of my short boxes need to be stored in the basement. It is dry and never floods, but there a lot of spiders. The bags keep dead spider guts off of my d*mn comics. I don't have a problem with spiders, but yeah...those dried up, long dead, spider bodies attached by some dusty strand of webbing to the side of your comic boxes are pretty unpleasant.
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Post by Confessor on Nov 10, 2016 20:18:06 GMT -5
I don't have a problem with spiders, but yeah...those dried up, long dead, spider bodies attached by some dusty strand of webbing to the side of your comic boxes are pretty unpleasant. The little ones will crawl right into the boxes and die, sometimes inbetween covers and pages (unbagged) if the box isn't filled. I have to wipe down the bags and shake out the boxes once in while. It's like Aliens, but with dustcloths instead of space marines. "On candy stripe legs, the Spiderman comes Softly through the shadow of the evening sun Stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead Looking for the victim shivering in bed"
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 11, 2016 7:55:23 GMT -5
Books 20 years old or less were completely nude. I bought silver age books from a collector who had his books packed away boxes in a cool dark environment ever since he purchased them from the newsagent racks in the 60s, and they were completely nude too. For over 45 years. When I got them, they were still well within the 8.0 - 8.5 grade. I was surprised, and he was surprised his dearly departed collection was bought by a girl. I've since clothed them with mylites of course. A few years ago, I bought a collection of Eagle comics from the 1950s from an old bloke who'd kept them in his garden shed for almost fifty years. There were several hundred of them, all unbagged, all in pristine condition despite the fact that they'd been stacked flat, one on top of another, on a concrete floor...all except the top copy, which was slightly tattered and very faded due to sunlight through the shed window. Predictably, the faded top copy was the first issue, which would have been worth a couple of hundred pounds if it had been in the same condition as all the rest...
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 11, 2016 8:37:42 GMT -5
I bought silver age books from a collector who had his books packed away boxes in a cool dark environment ever since he purchased them from the newsagent racks in the 60s, and they were completely nude too. For over 45 years. When I got them, they were still well within the 8.0 - 8.5 grade. I was surprised, and he was surprised his dearly departed collection was bought by a girl. I've since clothed them with mylites of course. A few years ago, I bought a collection of Eagle comics from the 1950s from an old bloke who'd kept them in his garden shed for almost fifty years. There were several hundred of them, all unbagged, all in pristine condition despite the fact that they'd been stacked flat, one on top of another, on a concrete floor...all except the top copy, which was slightly tattered and very faded due to sunlight through the shed window. Predictably, the faded top copy was the first issue, which would have been worth a couple of hundred pounds if it had been in the same condition as all the rest... Man, I love stories like this. I visited Maine this past fall and went to a little comic shop where I found the first appearance of Savage Dragon ( goes for 150 dollars) for 50 cents.
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 11, 2016 8:55:41 GMT -5
A few years ago, I bought a collection of Eagle comics from the 1950s from an old bloke who'd kept them in his garden shed for almost fifty years. There were several hundred of them, all unbagged, all in pristine condition despite the fact that they'd been stacked flat, one on top of another, on a concrete floor...all except the top copy, which was slightly tattered and very faded due to sunlight through the shed window. Predictably, the faded top copy was the first issue, which would have been worth a couple of hundred pounds if it had been in the same condition as all the rest... Man, I love stories like this. I visited Maine this past fall and went to a little comic shop where I found the first appearance of Savage Dragon ( goes for 150 dollars) for 50 cents. Best finds I ever made were the first, second, fourth and fifth issues of 2000 AD in a cardboard box of old magazines sitting outside a second hand book shop in Crystal Palace in the early 1990s. They cost me ten pence each. The first issue alone was worth £60 at the time, the second £70 (first appearance of Judge Dredd). They've risen quite a bit since then. A few years later, I went back to the same place and found an admittedly low grade copy of The Avengers #5, for which I paid...twenty pence!
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 11, 2016 8:57:15 GMT -5
Man, I love stories like this. I visited Maine this past fall and went to a little comic shop where I found the first appearance of Savage Dragon ( goes for 150 dollars) for 50 cents. Best finds I ever made were the first, second, fourth and fifth issues of 2000 AD in a cardboard box of old magazines sitting outside a second hand book shop in Crystal Palace in the early 1990s. They cost me ten pence each. The first issue alone was worth £60 at the time, the second £70 (first appearance of Judge Dredd). They've risen quite a bit since then. A few years later, I went back to the same place and found an admittedly low grade copy of The Avengers #5, for which I paid...twenty pence! Its like finding buried treasure.
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