Hacks and Secrets for Cleaning and Pressing Comics!

You must eat very little cereal to use a spoon that size 😂 great vid 👍

It's crazy in the trading card market this is not okay lol

Thank you for supplying the Amazon link to all the products you use, sorry I missed the link in my last comment ❤

Hi I cannot buy a TUSY in the UK without paying heavy Shipping fees. Have you heard of this make CY1808-04 it’s a Display 4TOP

I love the fact that at the start of the cleaning process in this tutorial, the comic literally says "It'll make an expert out of you"! Lol, it's so ironic but also so fitting for this vid! Thanks so much for the awesome content and it's truly super helpful for us all in the comic community. I always learn something new from each vid on this channel. I'm new to cleaning and pressing, so I really appreciate these techniques big time! Thank you!!

Conan the Barbarian 141, omg I love that issue. I started buying Conan that year because that's the year the movie came out, when I was a kid. I bought between 1 to 2 dozen Conan books but that issue is just my favorite. I buy it whenever I find it in high grade, I can't help it. Great video, I subscribed.

Hi Dave and Rachel. Thanks a lot for this vid. I’ve been pressing my own books for a year with some good results, but I never want to stop learning.
I’ve been thinking about buying a tack iron since the beginning and have just never pulled the trigger. Can you tell me if the tack iron you use has a temperature adjust, and if so what temperature do you set it at? I bought one online yesterday that has a temperature adjust.

hey dave, a suggestion might be if you could somehow find a dark backing board for underneath,(for this video purposes), it would help the spine ticks be more noticeable as opposed to the book laying on a white bkgrd,..?

I know people who use the 60lb sketch paper. You seem to use the 100 lb. What issues might I have with the 60?

I would love to see more of this but for more damage comics! Great job, very informant

excellent demonstration!

When I get greasy fingerprints on a fresh, modern book (especially on black front/back covers) are the flat, round cotton pads the best way to remove that?

Thank you for the video, lots of great information!

Great job!
Does the flat leather working tool have a more specific name?

Hi there, great video . I have question, what brand tacking iron do you use and Do you have any recommendations ? Plus what’s the temperature you are running it at ? I’m looking to buy one but I’m not sure which to get .

Great video. I too press and clean comics and I have found out through years of doing so that no two people who 'Press & Clean' do it the exact same way. However, I do notice that comic people are quick to criticize others if they do not do the process their way. My saying is, "If it is stupid but it works, then it is not stupid". I have developed many of my own hacks and they all work. I would like to point out that anything you do to a comic for improving its condition is by definition 'Restoration'. Here is the definition of the word Restoration according to the dictionary: the action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition.

I never knew this even existed. Really cool content. I have a decent collection of books but have not laid eyes on them in almost 30 years. They are bagged and have carefully been read once. I was wondering if you could do a video of content relating to the "care" of comics and things that should be done in long time storage that would help in preserving them. Thanks alot and keep the videos coming.

what press brand do you guys use?

Hey, I was watching your Amazon Store and saw that the Silicone release paper is unavailable. Is there any other you recommend?

I need some advice on unrolling a what appears to be a 100-year old document from Theodore Roosevelt it's like trying to unroll a torchship how would I soften the paper

Potato chip

What is the tack iron's setting?

Before you put the gloves on, just cut off the index finger on the glove. Then, it's safer.

Great video. Very informative. I'm learning to press and clean my comics as well. A quick question though. What temperature do you have your tac iron?

Your process is scary. I use silicone release paper in between each page

Fantastic!

Could you get out a pen date on the cover of a Journey into mystery 83 for me?? Dave

Thank you!

very helpful video, thank you!

Great content, very informative

Great video. I feel much better informed now!

Great video!!

Very helpful, thank you!

Great work done well 😃👍🏻

I would love to see more of this. Very informative and interesting to watch. Thank you.

Great work. Hoping I can learn more, I have many high valuable Bronze Age and some silver that I definitely want to get CGC graded. Thanks for your help.

I was fascinated, informed and entertained. Had no idea spine ticks could be mended 🤷🏽‍♂️

I have watched several informative videos on cleaning and pressing and all left me cringing and thinking "is that really how it should be done?". After watching THIS video I only had one reaction; that looks and feels correct.

Awesome video!! Thank you for the close ups and many technics on approaching cleaning and pressing.

You did a fantastic job of demonstrating this process. Can you still clean a book after it has been pressed? Or does the heat from the press make it harder to clean?

Paper waste is crazy on comic grading 😅

I found this video a year after you posted it. It's so in depth, the detail is incredible, the expertise stands out and the information is well explained. I'm getting ready to purchase my first press. I hope to be as good as you one day. I appreciate the honor you give the books that you clean and press. If I could ask, what brand of tack iron you use?

I’d love to know what temperature you have your tack iron set to. I purchased the same one.

Question. Does only pressing a book, and not cleaning it embed dirt deeper in to the book's paper? Would pressing (without cleaning) make it more difficult to clean that same book in the future if I wanted it?

What brand of tack iron do you use/recommend. I see SO many different styles and $$$ ranges on Amazon.

I went to your Amazon shop, do you have a link to a chamfered board?