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Posted 4/9/2009 1:22:48 AM


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Next on the restore block is this ASM #143. I think it was a 7.0 and looks like a 9 plus to me now.



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Posted 4/13/2009 5:06:13 PM


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Here is one of my customers comics. This Hulk 104 just had sentimental value so I restored it for free, Since it was a budget restore I was limited to what I could do but here's what i ended up with. It didnt come out as nice as I would have liked but it looks alot better than it did. Some of the major defects that were fixed are back cover missing alot, 3 industrial staples punched through spine and some of front cover gone. spine repair was so intesive removing spine roll wasn't going to be possible. Also some of the tears were so bad the still show but looks great in Mylar <img src="http://groups.ebay.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif" border=0>



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Post #56577
Posted 4/13/2009 6:26:09 PM


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What's up with that last image? It looks like the front page is a composite of different books.

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Post #56587
Posted 4/13/2009 8:21:15 PM


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See above in pic how pages were chewed up from the industrial staples. I had the use pieces from another book same age to get the tint as close as I could. Would be a piece of cake if i was dealing white white pages

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Post #56597
Posted 4/15/2009 4:17:03 PM


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Ok next is a customers comic with some bad writing on it. Unfortunately I accidently deleted the before pic of back but it have alot of writing around and on the muscle guy. Also comic did not lay flat.



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Post #56798
Posted 4/29/2009 2:10:20 AM


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Final draft of FF 46. Looks like it started out as a 3.0 and now it looks like a 7.0 IMO.

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