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Post by tonebone on Nov 17, 2022 11:36:49 GMT -5
Are you really supposed to replace comic bags every few years?
That's what comic bag merchants want us to believe. Considering that one of the major gripes environmentalists have with polyethylene terephtalate is that it degrades in something like 500 years only, I think I'll take a chance with my old mylar bags! Don't fall for the ploys of BigBag. That sounds really wrong. |
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Post by badwolf on Nov 17, 2022 12:50:09 GMT -5
I only replace them when they start to look or feel yucky.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 17, 2022 13:09:29 GMT -5
For some reason, my copy of Tarzan #207 (the first Kubert issue), bought around 1980, came into a thin grocery vegetable bag. It's still in there, fresh and crispy as ever!  |
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Post by tonebone on Nov 17, 2022 15:16:39 GMT -5
In another thread, I told about reading the DC Answer Man column decades ago, where some kid asked if there was a cheaper solution to bagging comics, and Rozakis told him to use Oven Roasting Bags, like you cook a turkey in. I've always wondered if anyone followed this advice, and how badly their comics got ruined.
Edit... I just looked it up and they are made of heat resistant nylon... at least they are now... I don't know what they were made of in the early 80's when I read this.
By the way, Oven Bags have their own wikipedia page.
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Post by MDG on Nov 17, 2022 15:48:56 GMT -5
For some reason, my copy of Tarzan #207 (the first Kubert issue), bought around 1980, came into a thin grocery vegetable bag. It's still in there, fresh and crispy as ever! I got three issues of EC's PANIC at an auction at an NYC con in 75 or 76 and they were in labelled grocery produce bags. It wasn't unusual back then--I don't remember when I first saw bags for sale in comic shops. Until the late 70s, I think most comic buyers didn't immediately stick everything in a bag right after they bought it. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2022 16:37:05 GMT -5
These MADs from 1966-67ish were never bagged either...just bought new, treated like file copies and boxed away. A cool, safe environment preserved them well, just a bit of age toning here and there. The first time they will ever be bagged is with me some 56+ years later.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2022 13:30:35 GMT -5
Cei-U!One week until the reveal of our 2022 CCF Twelve Days of Christmas topic. I am excited. It's something to look forward to in an otherwise stress-filled autumn this year. -M
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 18, 2022 14:26:00 GMT -5
Cei-U! One week until the reveal of our 2022 CCF Twelve Days of Christmas topic. I am excited. It's something to look forward to in an otherwise stress-filled autumn this year. -M It's a good one this year.
Cei-U! I summon the tease!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2022 14:31:34 GMT -5
Top ten comics featuring the Terrible Trio?
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 18, 2022 18:19:59 GMT -5
Cei-U! One week until the reveal of our 2022 CCF Twelve Days of Christmas topic. I am excited. It's something to look forward to in an otherwise stress-filled autumn this year. -M It's a good one this year.
Cei-U! I summon the tease!
Top Thanos appearances ? |
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 19, 2022 1:03:38 GMT -5
It's a good one this year.
Cei-U! I summon the tease!
Top Thanos appearances ?
Pretty sure it's not gonna be top first-wave Image titles...
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 19, 2022 1:53:51 GMT -5
Pretty sure it's not gonna be top first-wave Image titles...
I don’t think Kurt has ever read an Image book. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Nov 19, 2022 5:58:22 GMT -5
Pretty sure it's not gonna be top first-wave Image titles...
I don’t think Kurt has ever read an Image book. Not true. I've read Spawn #1 and the entire 1963 series.
Cei-U! It counts!
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Post by MDG on Nov 19, 2022 10:04:13 GMT -5
Top ten comics featuring the Terrible Trio? I don't think there are 10 comics with the Terrible Trio, but my partner and i used them in our one DC story...   |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2022 12:16:13 GMT -5
I bought a comic, was beaming from ear to ear, got ready to put it with the rest, opened the drawer to slot it in and.....there it was.
Bought a book I forgot I already had....
Only a tenner and I'll sell the spare without any bother but still....I need to take better stock of what I own.
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