22 Jun
2001
22 Jun
'01
noon
There does exist an expensive process involving a
pressurized system for
neutralizing the acids in pages of books. It is not very widely
available.
There have been services available for years offering to
treat old comic books, though I've never had any first hand
experience with how successful they are. The comic books up until
the late 1980's were also printed on some of the cheapest, most
acidic paper available. Anyone who has seen a comic book dating from
the 40's or 50's and stored in the typical basement fashion has seen
how brown and brittle that paper gets. They were never meant to
last. Overstreets' annual price guide used to have all kinds of
advertisements from these places.
Jeff
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