Might just be coiincidence, but I have seen a couple of these boxes with the Chits pop up ever... and now there are 3 boxes put up in the last couple days with chits???


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seems pretty stinky to me.

Could be a recent high sale price brought more sellers in. I don't see anything out of the ordinary about this, it is not that rare an item even.

for sure it could be, i just found it odd. I have refreshed this query every day for the last 2 years and it is extremely out of place. Just randomness i suppose....

You might even see a couple more popping up soon.

I’m almost positive I have couple lying around that I’d be happy to list at those prices!

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In case you haven't seen this yet.

It's been a while since one of these has popped up on eBay:


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It's missing a couple of the character background sheets, but with some good restoration work, pretty confident its condition could be upgraded.

Vismore wrote in Interesting Items Currently on eBay:

I’m just curious as to what you mean by restoration work.  As a collector and an envious one of this item, what would be appropriate and standard to help this treasure along?

Looking at it from a comic world these are the possibilities:  (a lot of these won't apply for the Tamoachan however)

There are 11 basic enhancements that qualify as restoration: color touch, piece fill, tear seals, spine split seals, reinforcement, piece re-attachment, cleaning, staple replacement, re-glossing, glue and trimming.

COLOR TOUCH – This process replaces missing color or masks defects using materials such as acrylic paint, watercolors, pen, crayons, pastels, markers, or white-out. Color touch is sometimes referred to as inpainting.
PIECE FILL – This is utilized to replace missing paper on a comic book using materials such as leaf casting, rice paper, donor parts from other comics, or xerox paper. It is sometimes referred to as infilling.
TEAR SEALS – Seals are accomplished using an adhesive such as wheat paste and rice paper, or any type of glue, including white glue, wood glue, superglue or paste.
SPINE SPLIT SEALS – These are essentially tear seals but occur along a comic book’s spine. Like tear seals, they also utilize adhesives and/or rice paper.
REINFORCEMENT – This process is used to support weak areas of a comic book, particularly the spine, staple areas, or a corner or edge. It can involve the use of rice paper or glue.
PIECE RE-ATTACHMENT – Re-attachment of loose pieces are like tear seals, utilizing rice paper and/or various adhesives. They are usually found on the outer edges of a comic book.
CLEANING – There are three basic types of cleaning; water, solvent and dry. Dry cleaning is not considered restoration. Solvent cleaning involves soaking a cover or pages in a chemical bath to remove certain kinds of tanning or foreign substance. Water cleaning involves a water bath that may contain chemicals that whiten or deacidify paper, or aids in the removal of stains, tanning and creases.
STAPLE REPLACEMENT OR CLEANING – This involves replacing one or both original staples of a comic book with new or vintage staples, usually done when the original staples have become rusty or broken. Sometimes the original staples are chemically cleaned to remove rust or discoloration.
RE-GLOSSING – A process that enhances the gloss of a comic cover using a fixative spray.
GLUE – This is considered an amateur repair using non-archival glue, utilized to seal tears and splits, reinforce weak areas or re-attach loose pieces or pages.
TRIMMING – A technique that involves cutting off the edges of a comic book’s cover or pages to remove defects and sharpen edges. Unlike the other restoration techniques, trimming results in an improved appearance through destruction (loss of paper).

-SKA

Great info guys.  I would definitely want an expert to do these for an item like this.

Vismore

Which is to say that other than pressing that item flat (which will take years, I know from long experience) there is likely nothing else that can be done about the moisture damage and the staining. The best condition grade this item could achieve in my opinion is a Fair+/Good- (without viewing it more closely, it might be worse).

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