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Juliebut the card looks pretty solid, so I'd risk soaking. I once soaked a Scrapps off a scrapbook page, and though it looked perfect on the page, it floated off in two pieces. One piece sort of tucked inside the second piece so that it was virtually seemless. You might want to examine Commy with a magnifying glass until you're satisfied he's whole.
My own Scrapps Comiskey has a perfect front, but came with an eighth inch of gunk on the back. I was advised to keep wetting the back with a q-tip swab, and then scratch away at the wet back with a toothpick. It worked. When I got down to card, it wouldn't scratch off anymore. For about a year afterward, the back was dark, as if glue-stained, but now it's faded nice and light again:
