Went from a neat longbox to a disaster zone in just 3 months after one bad storage choice

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Man, I feel that. That one bad storage choice really can snowball into something way worse than you think it will. It's like once you put one longbox in a damp spot or near a heat vent, the whole vibe shifts and everything starts getting messed up. The bags and boards start sticking together, corners get chewed up, and before you know it you're digging through a pile of books you're scared to even open. I've seen people lose whole runs just because they stacked them on a concrete floor for a few months without thinking about moisture.

adams.uma1mo ago

Basements are basically a gamble. You either get lucky with a dry slab or you lose a longbox full of books you thought were safe forever. Had a buddy lose his entire 80s run of Amazing Spider-Man that way. The staples just crumbled to brown dust inside the pages.

shane_park921mo ago

Yeah, you're right about the concrete floor thing. I learned that one the hard way back in the 90s when I stored a longbox in my basement directly on the slab. Didn't think twice about it until six months later when the bottoms of the bags were all damp and the cardboard started getting those wavy edge bends you can never fix. Had to toss some early X-Men issues because the staples were rusted halfway through.