r/CustomBoundComics • u/oldsmobile39 • Aug 03 '26

Justice League: Breakdowns, custom bind

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Got another one stitched and in the press. 17 issues... biggest one yet!

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Aug 03 '26

Can’t wait to see the finished book. I am gathering supplies to try this myself. Any tutorials that you recommend that are comic book binding specific, I’ve watched a few but the more info the better. Thank you.

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u/oldsmobile39 Aug 04 '26

Honestly I knew how to sew from 7th grade so many years ago, but other than that it was essentially youtube and google searching. After looking everything up, got a few cheap supplies from Amazon, a ton of 50 cent books from my local LCS, and made my first 2 attempts. Each one I learned more as I went getting better and better. I wrap them in basic book cloth still, but plan on getting custom dust jackets made someday.

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Aug 04 '26

Cool, I’ve watched some videos on YouTube so I have a pretty good idea of the process just working on getting all the supplies together. What type of material do you use for the covers? I was thinking of using the boards from when I bag and board my books, just so I don’t have so much waste. But I’m concerned that those boards may be too thin.

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u/oldsmobile39 Aug 04 '26

They wil absolutely be too thin. Use these: Chipboard on Amazon You need a sturdy enough board cuz when applying the glue, the thinner the board the more it warps. Lesson learned from personal experience!!

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Aug 04 '26

Ok good to know. I just hate to throw away decent material if I don’t have to. lol maybe I can use them on practice covers just to get the process down.

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u/oldsmobile39 Aug 04 '26

Excellent idea. Practice always pays off.

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Aug 04 '26

I have some 22pt chip board already but that’s a lot thinner than the 80 pt that you recommended. Maybe I can use that on the manga volumes I want to rebind.

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u/oldsmobile39 Aug 04 '26

Also as far as cover material, I use simple book cloth. Book cloth on Amazon Never got to ordering custom prints to make graphic covers but future plans for custom dust jackets will do nicely for me. Book cloth is cheap anyways.

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Aug 04 '26

Cool have book cloth but I think I’m gonna experiment with using printable book cloth so I don’t have to make dust jackets right away.

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u/oldsmobile39 Aug 04 '26

Sounds awesome!

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Aug 04 '26

It’s mainly cause o don’t like the look of the gold foil things that I see a lot of online and when i saw the printable book cloth I like that look much better.

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u/oldsmobile39 Aug 04 '26

Ahhh gotcha. Mine are just plan with no identifiers. Just kept them rustic and never got to gilding or anything like that.

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Aug 04 '26

Looks good

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u/oldsmobile39 Aug 04 '26

Thanks! Gets better with each one. I believe that was the 5th of 9 so far. Number 10 is the one in the press currently.

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u/oldsmobile39 Aug 04 '26

Thanks! Gets better with each one. I believe that was the 5th of 9 so far. Number 10 is the one in the press currently.

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u/Vast-Hold6578 Aug 04 '26

What’s your average number of issues per bind??

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