How do you guys deal with adds that have a page on the other side. Do you just leave the add in there or are there alternatives?
“Now faith, hope, and love remain, and the greatest of these is love.”--1 Corinthians 13:13
“You had a dream; I have a plan”--Cyclops
“There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.”--The Doctor
Or you could try and hunt down trades and have them bound
You can bind trades DFAB (a strong and durable glued method) or oversewn. I prefer DFAB because the eventual bind opens flatter. You can't smyth sew trades though. You can also combine trades and floppies. Here are a couple posts I did using the official Knightfall TPBs as a starting point outlining a bunch of the different things that are possible to do (move contents around, splice in issues, etc):
Part 1: http://comicbindingpro.com/post/1269...post-that-uses
Part 2: http://comicbindingpro.com/post/1269...d-anatomy-part
One thing to watch for though - if you are using trades or hardcovers, you want to be sure they are glued and not sewn, as trying to rebind a sewn book has way more gutter loss.
Every time I see the spectacular binds in this thread I think of some of my complete runs... I don't have that many but I'm moving to trades in most cases so I could get some nice little binds... but then I remember a) I'm in the UK so can't use some of these same services and b) money haha
Anybody here get miniseries bound? Not seen much of that kinda thing.
I just sent off a batch of John Wagner miniseries to be bound by comicbindingpro, it will be books of mini-series, I plan on doing Garth Ennis/Carlos Ezquerra mini-series at some point. For just a 8 to 12 issue series I have not done, generally I try to make sure the bind is going to be decent size.
I want to thank Dick Grayson of Comic Binding Pro for helping me out with my binding process.
Back in April this year I sent off for two runs to be collected:
JM DeMatteis' Spectacular Spider-Man. The fact this run isn't collected is criminal. Sure Kraven's Last Hunt will always be in print, but the other material - not so much. This run was classic. When I finally got rid of my floppies for trades I kept most of the floppies of this run.
Spider-Girl, the original run issues 73-100 were not collected. I found them cheap and started that process.
Several weeks ago - I received my books - http://comicbindingpro.com/post/1484...stomer-of-some and they look EXACTLY like Marvel's Omnibus collection.
I really recommend utilizing Dick Grayson as a resource - as prior to binding these books, I communicated with Marvel to see if they would ever bind them. Three months later, I never got an answer. I now one two one-of-a-kind omnibuses for ABOUT the same as retail. Additionally - if Marvel were to ever collect the JMD Spec - the run would probably only collect his issues 178-200. There were several other issues that involved threads leading into the SPEC content. I got with Dick Grayson, put those floppies into the collection in the order I wished, out of numerical order.
I currently have Ann Nocenti's Daredevil off to the bindery. Her run was fantastic, but we only get the JR JR issues collected. I dove online, finding issues for about 50 cents each, put a collection together, organizing the issues how I wished.
Dick Grayson painstakingly put together my omnis exactly how I wished - Marvel old school.
Thank you, Dick Grayson.
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“Now faith, hope, and love remain, and the greatest of these is love.”--1 Corinthians 13:13
“You had a dream; I have a plan”--Cyclops
“There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.”--The Doctor
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Got some Alan Grant Batman back recently from the fine people at comicbindingpro, love them and cannot wait to get the next batch back.
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Last 2 volumes, next up is Aquaman, The Demon, Green Lantern, and Martian Manhunter.