Pre marvel chipping and miscuts or something else?

[The-Collector]

Hey guys I was looking over a group of silver aged marvels and was curious about some defects I noticed.

 

Defect one: I suspect this is either very slight pre marvel chipping or a production defect from when it was cut:

 

 

Defect two: stepped edges on the open edge of the comic book. I saw this on several books.

 

 

I hope you can tell from the scans. If you have an idea what they are and how they are both treated by cgc let me know.

 

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

Jake

 

 

 

 

[Spiderphill]

Defect A is marvel chipping, a production defect. Depending on chipping severity it will impact the grade. Defect B just looks like the way the book was cut, I've had a few SA books cut this way and were graded as normal.

[The-Collector]

Ok cheers that is what I thought.

 

That is the only chip on that book. I have seen much larger pre marvel chipping where the rips were nearly a centimetre long noted on grader notes and that book got an 8.5

[The-Collector]

Thanks for the reply!

[porky]

Defect A is marvel chipping, a production defect. Depending on chipping severity it will impact the grade. Defect B just looks like the way the book was cut, I've had a few SA books cut this way and were graded as normal.

 

i'm not so sure about that on the A. i have some old marvels like that and it's from a dull blade. if the newsprint at the same area as the flaw has a little ridge all the way through, it's production from a dull cutting blade.

[The-Collector]

Defect A is marvel chipping, a production defect. Depending on chipping severity it will impact the grade. Defect B just looks like the way the book was cut, I've had a few SA books cut this way and were graded as normal.

 

i'm not so sure about that on the A. i have some old marvels like that and it's from a dull blade. if the newsprint at the same area as the flaw has a little ridge all the way through, it's production from a dull cutting blade.

 

I am not sure if it is a confusion of these two phenomenon but I have heard it said that marvel chipping is the result of using a dull blade. That the blade stresses the paper along the edge and over time this extra stress at production coupled with the low quality paper results in the chipping.

[vaillant]

They are both pretty normal, in my experience, and production related.

And it’s very likely like you said about Marvel chipping as well.