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I was clearing out stuff to sell on eBay recently and a hardback collected Alan Moore Swamp Thing series that I am putting out was turning brown on the top closed edge, whereas the bottom edge is still white. I have never had these books in direct sunlight or in overly warm areas, so I am disappointed that just exposing these books to ANY air would cause this deterioration.
On a thread a few months back, I mentioned how I preferred a matte style paper stock to the glossy paper being used in omnibus editions and trade paperbacks, but surely there's a happy medium. I am surprised DC even used such low-grade paper for these reprints as they only came out in the 2010s.
I expected my older comics themselves to degrade over time as you can't stop the acid, but surprised this was allowed here.
In the publishing world, you can tell what books are considered dispensable by the type of paper they're printed on. Beach reads almost always some grade of acid paper.
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