what is a wrap and a centerfold for comic books?

[uchiha101]

I have no clue what a centerfold or a comic wrap is and that's important because I'm looking for coverless copies of valuable comics and it usually mentions they are missing wraps and centerfolds can someone give me a definition of what those are and pictures? It would really help me out

[thunsicker]

The centerfold is just the middle wrap. A wrap is a pair of pages.

[uchiha101]

The centerfold is just the middle wrap. A wrap is a pair of pages.

 

do you have some pictures to help me identify a centerfold and a wrap?

[Point Five]

Take an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper. Hold the top and bottom of the sheet together and fold it neatly in the middle.

 

The folded sheet you're holding is basically a comic 'wrap'. It makes up four of the comic book's pages (as there are four 'sides' to the folded sheet.)

 

A 'centerfold' just means the wrap in the very center of the book, where the staples are visible and hold the book together. If you open a comic to the very center, the wrap you should be looking at (unless it's missing) is the centerfold.

 

So for instance, a GA comic missing 'centerfold plus one wrap' is missing a total of 8 story pages (4+4).

 

 

[JazzMan]

The centerfold is just the middle wrap. A wrap is a pair of pages.

 

do you have some pictures to help me identify a centerfold and a wrap?

 

Are you serious?

 

If you are, here's an example of a centerfold. You know it's the centerfold and not just another wrap because the staples are visible. The centerfold is just another wrap, but it is the inner-most wrap.

 

[Gotham Kid]

centerfold: the two middle pages of a book/magazine

[rodan57]

Hi JazzMan.

 

I have a 27" screen on my iMac. Not big enough.

[JazzMan]

Just making sure there were no additional questions.

[JollyComics]

Pix?

 

[uchiha101]

Take an 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper. Hold the top and bottom of the sheet together and fold it neatly in the middle.

 

The folded sheet you're holding is basically a comic 'wrap'. It makes up four of the comic book's pages (as there are four 'sides' to the folded sheet.)

 

A 'centerfold' just means the wrap in the very center of the book, where the staples are visible and hold the book together. If you open a comic to the very center, the wrap you should be looking at (unless it's missing) is the centerfold.

 

So for instance, a GA comic missing 'centerfold plus one wrap' is missing a total of 8 story pages (4+4).

 

 

thanks for that answer

[uchiha101]

The centerfold is just the middle wrap. A wrap is a pair of pages.

 

do you have some pictures to help me identify a centerfold and a wrap?

 

Are you serious?

 

If you are, here's an example of a centerfold. You know it's the centerfold and not just another wrap because the staples are visible. The centerfold is just another wrap, but it is the inner-most wrap.

 

 

thanks and yes I am serious because I didn't know what they are

[uchiha101]

centerfold: the two middle pages of a book/magazine

 

thanks

[rjpb]

The nomenclature gets confusing because page is frequently used to describe both sides of a leaf, which is the traditional term for a half wrap with a page printed on either side. When people refer to a page number, or a page as containing specific visual information they mean just one side of the paper, but when a leaf is missing they tend to use page instead of leaf to describe what is in actuality two pages.

 

The center wrap shouldn't really be referred to as a centerfold unless there is an image printed across the the two opposing pages at the middle of the book (the fold), but that distinction has long been abandoned by comic collectors.

[vaillant]

I see 1/8 of that picture!

[mattinglymint23]

I am serious and don't call me surely