How does restoration affect a comic book's price?

How does restoration affect a comic book's price?

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Restoration can affect a comic book's price significantly. It will all depend, of course, on the status of the restoration, on the extent of it, if it's professional versus amatuer, if it's slight, moderate or extensive. Slight being perhaps just some dots of color touched to fill in some area that faded, or extensive which can involve having actual pieces of the comic book replaced. This could significantly affect the price of the comic book, and it could drive the price down to as little as ten to twenty-five percent of what it would otherwise be. It will also depend of course on the comic book itself. A comic book like superma in restored condition will still garner a very significant price. Not as much as it would not restored though, and it will also depend on how rare the comic book is. But as a general rule, restored comic books will not come anywhere close to the value that they would be unrestored. That's not to say that there should be a stigma attached, restored comic books are perfectly fine to collect, theyre perfectly fine to invest in, but the investment opportunity is less. But from a collecting standpoint, if you want to collect very rare and expensive comic books, restored comic books might be the way to go because the price will be so much lower.