INCREDIBLE Comic Cleaning and Pressing Results! 

Who'd of thought using water yo clean comics not to mention pages. This guy obviously knows what he's doing. Fascinating video.

Never heard of this type of cleaning but the before and after looks amazing..

Jeff does great work, and would recommend him to anyone. A true pro and a great guy.

High value professional. One of the best I’ve seen.

You should see what he did with my Iron Man & Sub-Mariner #1. He’s the Dumbledore of cleaning and pressing. Jeff at ComicSpa is a delight to work with, incredibly affordable, and a paper whisperer. Excellent video. Before and After pictures are definitely the way to go.

I can only say that l have enjoyed the friendship and collaboration that began in our LCS. You have made me enthusiastic about being around comics again since the beginning when l began collecting books like the Avengers, Ghost Rider, Conan, Justice Society, Nova, ManThing, X-Men, New Teen Titans, and yes of course Batman. In 1974 l wanted to collect everything off the rack. I only had money from my newspaper route so l bought only half the rack😂 Thank you my friend!

Dude -- I'm guessing it was worth it to you: Substantial differences before and after. Such an amazing and (I'm thinking) cutting edge process.

What amazing results! I have a first appearance of the Punisher that I got graded and it came way lower than I expected. I would love to get it taken care of and see how much of a difference that made in grading.

Very interesting...always awesome to see a book brought back to life. Kudos

Was shocked at the idea of bathing and washing a comic with water. Amazing what can be done to make the book look better. ComicSpa is going to get some more business from this video.

Good stuff! I'm especially interested in the buffing process that retains or enhances the gloss of the covers, as you can really tell the difference there. The aqueous bath reminds me of Immaculate Comics, a scientist who also worked in the paper field (another magician w/fascinating videos). I'll be in touch w/Jeff to take a look at my Swamp Thing 37, Green Lantern 76, Marvel Premiere 47, and (oddly) - X-Men 95! Thanks for sharing LCS - terrific content and good to know there's a local cleaning/pressing professional around to trust!

The presser identifying and reporting back to the owner before proceeding is key; should be de rigueur for all pressing services if the submission is not in-person.

Couple of points, as I have been cleaning and pressing my own books for over a year now. Pressing is one thing. - but doing a very thorough process of cleaning can be very dangerous to a book. Unless you have extensive experience with this, if the book is valuable or rare, I would not attempt this. You are invariably going to do more damage to the book than you realize. Before doing this, practice a TON on a bunch of junk books. (Like the 20 for $1.00 kind.) Also, it is very time consuming. This type of process can take days and days, when done right - to get marginal results. I'm not saying don't do this - but if you are even slightly nervous, just spend the $8-15 and let a professional do it.

If you want to improve it even further, look into HOP and BLED processes. 90% or more of the remaining staining will just vanish.

Very interesting Mike, and someone who obviously knows exactly how to deal with a whole range of faults. A real craftsman.

Man’s a wizard. Great video breaking down the process, really makes you appreciate what a pro can do. Well done dude 🍻

Wow this just opens up a whole new world for us collectors. Those Bronze Age books that you’ve been stuck at mid grades with for years can now be completely brought back to life and achieve some higher grades. Just amazing

Nice job on the books. Thanks for sharing.

WOW! Jeff did a great job. If he can do that with those books, I would have no problem sending him books that I have,

Jeff does incredible work! Definitely worth it for books you want to keep for your P.C.!

Wow ! They both look amazing !

Amazing work. It's like night & day. I admire Spa's patience and skill in this time-consuming process. Three years ago, after seeing other vids, I thought I could do this and even bought a used press machine. Never found the time and real motivation to do it, and the press sits in my attic. The most I've ever done on a book was dry cleaning. Wet would be ideal for several of my keys then pressing, but as video showed, it can take at least 24 hours for a book. Because I'm very inpatient, I'd rather let a highly patient professional like Spa handle all of it. I'm in VA Beach and unfortunately don't know of any local reputable pressers. Very informative. 😄👍

Wow, that's amazing! He does fantastic work. If and when I find an old valuable comic, I know just where to take it to get worked on!

What holds me back is that l lack the patience to do this type of work. Much appreciated video/presser /results.

This was AWESOME! I was always curious of the pressing and cleaning process for comics. Thanks for letting us peek behind the curtain!

I leave comix the way find them especially if there early 60 or 70's I find it nostalgic reminds me of being a kid again,.

Loved seeing the process and even better yet... the fantastic results! This video gets a big YOWZA from me!

Hey Lunch Money Comics! Recently came back from being overseas and looking to find some solid shops with some dollar bins in New England. I am in central MA area, but will to check out anything in New England! Will also have to look into Comic Spa’s services. What a great resource to the community!

It's amazing what can be done to fix them up.

Pretty impressive Mike!

I've always wanted to know more about the cleaning and pressing process. I would be terrified of having a highly collectable comic taken apart and placed in water....but after seeing the it .... hard to argue with results.

Thank you for turning me on to Jeff, he’s done fantastic work to a few of my books. I loved seeing the whole process in the video and I’m fortunate that I got to see that hellcat in person and it looks so much better than it does in the video. Jeff’s a magician

Thank you, very informative video.

Wow. That’s night and day better!!

i had no idea what went into "cleaning" comics and this is super impressive. great informative video!

Awesome turn out on those books.

Very nice work

That is amazing! Incredible. I've seen similar techniques done for saving and restoring olf Video Game boxes and manuals.

Fantastic work!!! Thanks for giving us an insight of how this is done.

That gloss looks great. I did a DIY clean and press without a press on a few books including Batman 251 and ASM 300 which both had terrible spine rolls, they turned out pretty good with the roll gone.

I am amazed at the significant improvement in each book. Both are like night and day.

So much thanks for your Channel I appreciate all you do and all the stuff that you point out about the collection process and the cleaning and pressing knowledge is also awesome to thank you thank you thank you

Terrifying is an understatement. I can’t imagine having staples removed and then replacing them and not getting a qualified grade.

Cool… I’ve seen his work on the forums…. I don’t think I put 2 and 2 together until you mentioned it.

Excellant work. Comic alchemy. Some great practitioners out there

Wow! I never knew about submerging comics in water! Very interesting video ❤

Excellent side quest.

Fantastic results. Great video. Thank you.

Great video and thanks for sharing the process. Might have to reach out and send in a book or two

Great video cheers. Who knew about putting it in WATER 😵😵 Take Care

great video!!! really enjoyed this one. I love watching cleaning and pressing.

Awesome

your guy sure knows what he's doing! great results!

Cool stuff. What I don't like about cleaning, pressing and such is many resellers do these things but don't mention it when they are selling it. Should they? I dunno.

Great video !

Hey Lunch, great content as always if you ever get a chance do a quick vid on other comic book you tubers you enjoy all ther best

Fascinating.

congrats on 4000 subs i have been subbed since around 400. Awesome video.

Those look amazing now! Definitely great editions to your collection

Man's the comic rejuvenator supreme.....

Very interesting to learn and a great job was done. ❤️🇺🇲

Unfortunately whether the stain is dark or light it’s still graded by size. It’s not often worth taking the time and money to fix them unless the book is super valuable or free of pretty much all other defects. Occasionally you might see a modern book in 6.5 that looks NM though. That’s usually because of a minor stain. Books like that can take huge jumps in grade after a stain removal. But the stain really has to be small and light in color. Water stains are the easiest to remove because it’s usually just surface dirt and minerals that were embedded into the paper when it got wet. But it’s something to look out for when buying graded books. It can pay to check out those graders notes

Does your cleaner and presser accept books? I know this an older video but your guy does great work. I’m not local I’m in Kentucky but I would trust this guy to work on my books.

Man, that was awesome Mike. Really appreciate this. I have a GS X-Men 1 that accidentally got stained way-way back in the day (we had a leak during a rainstorm). It's good to know about this process in this video. Appreciate you much! Love my LMC! 😁

That's why I buy comics others don't lmao

I wish there was a presser guy where I live. Portland, OR

Hey brother!! So i know you probably already know but in case you don't.. cgc is having an in house signing with Chris Claremont. I know you're a big fan of his books so just thought I'd let you know

Another beauty brother

GREAT VIDEI!!! Thank you soooo much for the amazing before/after pics. I’m from MA too and have a bunch of old books that I’d like to press then preserve. But I’m nervous to send them out to a stranger. Where did you go to get reviews of ComicSpa? I couldn’t find any kind of a web presence. How did you find/hear of them initially?

Of the restoration and cleaning guys I've seen hes up there with hero restoration. If you wanna not sleep at night and cringe y I u should check some of that dudes videos out he does stuff that makes you wanna black out watching but the results are incredible.

Amazing ! I wonder if the UV treatment would help ? CONGRATULATIONS on 4K !!🎉

Pretty amazing

Dude is good

Congratulations on 4K!

“If there is any chance of harming a book….” Enough said. That’s why I don’t attempt doing my own cleaning and pressing. 🙄

When is Comic Spa starting his channel?

Where did you go

What did he say the xmen would grade out to?

What was the X-men #95 graded at?

Last comment - if it looks like a 4.5 before cleaning and pressing, unless every single "flaw" is a non-color breaking ripple, it is probably going to stay a 4.5. Use a little common sense when doing this stuff.

What is the prices?

Where did you go