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Took me 15 years to realize I was bagging comics wrong
I had been collecting since I was 12, always using those cheap current boards and standard bags. Last month I pulled out a early 90s X-Men issue I had bagged back in '98 and the spine was all jacked up from the board being too short. My buddy at the shop laughed and showed me how the board should be a little taller than the comic so the staple area isn't stressed. Felt like a total idiot. I had probably 200 books that got damaged over the years because I just grabbed whatever board was in the bin. Anyone else find out they were doing some basic storage thing completely backwards for way too long?
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wren6524mo ago
Oh man, I had a buddy who collected gold and silver age stuff for like 20 years before he learned you're supposed to use bags without the gum flap for expensive books. He showed me this stack of early 70s Conan issues that had these nasty brown stains right where the flap adhesive touched the cover. Poor guy was so mad at himself, said he felt like he'd been storing money in a leaky bucket the whole time.
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the_robert2mo ago
I still think modern acrylic boards work fine with flaps @wren652, just flip the bag around.
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