CCS does have the right to refuse working on certain books which happens quite often. If the comic book has extensive color touch I usually refer clients to CCS ( CGC’s in-house restoration shop) or other resto removal experts to do the job. ![]() In these cases, I am happy to do it for clients as I work on the books (for a nominal fee). If the color touch in minimal, it can usually be scraped, wiped or washed off quite easily. The job can be daunting if the color touch is extensive. Most pressers, comic book restorers and even the collector him/herself can remove the color touch. What can be done? As mentioned above, color touched books can sometimes be “fixed”. Since the advent of third-party grading companies, however, a spot light has now been shone on color touched books, with many a collectors and dealers reeling in disbelief when one or more of their comic books end up with a restored label due to color touch. Due to the ease of such a fix, it was common practice by amateur and pro restorers both. If a perfectly fine book had a little bit of color break along the spine or elsewhere, a marker went a long way in making the comic look that much better. It’s Been Around a Long TimeĬolor touch has been a part of comic collecting for decades. I didn’t detect it and nor did the original CGC graders. After cleaning and pressing the comic book, I re-submitted it and it came back with a 9.6 purple label indicating “small amount of colour touch on cover”. The comic was a 9.0 universal blue label. This happened recently with a client’s Hulk 141. In many cases, the color touch can be removed, and sometimes, without affecting the comic book’s current grade – at least not by too much! Colour Touch Is SneakyĬolor touch is a sneaky little bugger that can sometimes evade even the best of eyes, in fact, I have cracked CGC universal blue label comics, worked on them and re-submitted them only to receive a color touched classification. ![]() Look, finding out one of your prized comic books has color touch on it isn’t the end of the world. A while later, you receive a call from said presser with the bad news: Your comic book has color touch on it. You buy it and quickly contact your go-to comic book presser (The Comic Doctor, right?) to have the comic cleaned and pressed prior to having it graded. You finally decide to take the plunge and purchase that key comic book you have been eyeing for months.
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