.................he still talks about how much those comic books would be worth.
My Father had that issue as well as the first Spiderman; they along with all the others got tossed when he was drafted into the Army in 1944, his Mother figured if he was old enough to be in the Army, he was too old for comic books............
Probably not a good idea to show him this as he had a triple bypass several years ago.................:wink2:
A legitimate question in relation to collecting comics from the 30's through the 70's. This particular hobby has an open ended expiration date because the paper the comics were made out of is so cheap. The paper is going to go brown and brittle and inevitably self-destruct. Obviously, for the kind of money these things are bringing, the comic needs to be de-acidified. Even this step will only halt the decay at the point that the comic has reached when the de-acid action is taken. It does not reverse the damage done, so a comic with brown pages will stay brown. Without de-acidification, it is likely the collector will live longer than the collection. {eek3} -- Al
