This book was previously restored and amateur at best.  Ball point pen and markers were used for color touch.  There was some residual glue along the spine.  Large stamp marking across the top of the front cover.  

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Still the most sought after and desirable book in the marketplace today.  I know you're thinking that it would be worth more left unrestored but I tried that. My customer wanted his copy to look and be as healthy as possible (by the way, my favorite kind of customer).  This book was weak along the spine, cover was browning and highly acidic rendering it a bit fragile.  Page quality of interior was very supple. Pages were de-acidified for longterm preservation.  The book will never degrade in composition or esthetic quality.  Ready for Stan Lee's signature...who is in his Platinum Years!  

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Already 7 weeks into 2014 and Boston is snowed under.  

I don't know what is more paralyzing, the snow or the deep freeze but the combination is getting old now. Meterological winter ends in 2 weeks. Looking forward to a March thaw!

Haven't posted many restoration or pressing photos in the last year but now I have so many to share I might as well get started while the temperatures and snowfall continue to give me cabin fever.

I have been doing a fair combination of True Restoration and Pressing jobs.  Both are very satisfactory particularly when I delight a collector who has been searching for a key book for many years and I can bring it back to life and preserve it for the future.  I appreciate the "old school" collector that wants to still hold the book, turn the pages and read it whether for his own personal pleasure or to share it with his children.

Pressing has its own merits and accolades for the trendy comic book investment marketplace.  This past fall I was able to take a key Golden Age book from an 8.0 to a 9.4!  It looked so good I was afraid that CGC would think it was a digitally enhanced cover.

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SERVICES at the top of the heading of the site.   

Enjoy the transformational pictures and I hope to see you out there at the shows! I'll be milling around enjoying the crowd and maybe one day wear that Wonder Woman (my restoration namesake) costume myself!

Susan Cicconi

Owner of The Restoration Lab

617 974-1125 

 

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