How it works
🔎 Bring us your comics to evaluate. We will determine if your book is a good candidate for cleaning and pressing.
✅ If your book qualifies, we will arrange to add it to our monthly pressing shipment.
⌛️ Turn around times vary. As of February, 2024, turnaround is about 7 days.
🚚 If you are getting the comics graded, we facilitate transportation straight from pressing to CGC.
We charge a flat rate minimum of $20.00 for a basic cleaning and pressing. There are other more detailed cleaning add on services that can apply if the customer so chooses. Nothing will be applied without first consulting with the customer before proceeding.
The gentle removal of contamination from the white areas of the comic book including interior pages, back and front cover. No water, peroxides or solvents of any kind are used. 3rd party grading services, like CGC, does not classify pressing and dry cleaning as restoration.
Pressing greatly diminishes, and in some cases, removes minor defects from comic books. Pressing can reduce or remove things like dents, non-color breaking folds, bends, waviness, and spine rolls. Often times the removal of these defects will raise the grade and in turn the value of the book much higher.
Cleaning and Pressing gives your comic book the best opportunity to get the best grade it can get. We do guarantee a grade but we are happy to offer you an educated guess. We only use CGC as a grading service. We are getting better at aligning our estimates with their system but there is never ever any guarantee on the final graded outcome. CGC is the final judge and the grade is the grade.