Back issues used to be a quarter

I was going through my long boxes last weekend and realized my old copies of Amazing Spider-Man from the 80s have yellowed way more than I thought. Found issue #252 with the black suit reveal and the cover is practically brown now. It got me thinking about how my whole collection has shifted from something I read for fun to something I just store in plastic. Does anyone else still actually read their old floppies or is it just me and my brittle paper?

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laura2112mo ago

Have you tried storing them with silica gel packs?

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patriciaellis2mo ago

I read somewhere that the paper quality back then was honestly terrible compared to what we get now, so the yellowing is pretty much inevitable no matter how you store them. I still pull out my old X-Men issues once in a while but I'm always surprised at how fragile they feel. The brittleness kind of takes the fun out of handling them, doesn't it.

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