Corner Clipped - CGC Grading 0

[maxon]

Does anyone have insight how CGC grades books with the corner clipped? Is this considered incomplete 0.5 or would it get some kind of low grade but not be marked incomplete? Interior panels unaffected. Thanks.

[zzutak]

As long as the missing interior material is margin paper, the book should not be marked as incomplete.  I've never submitted a book with a clipped corner, but I have subbed many books with missing interior paper as a result of termite or rodent damage.  It looks like your ASM #9 is missing about the same amount of paper as my Astonishing #6 (although I suspect your book has additional defects that will lead to a lower overall grade). 

[Randall Ries]

Kinda makes me wonder if it will get a purp for being trimmed. That's a man made cut there and not a result of a termite or baby chew. I personally can't own books like that.

[theCapraAegagrus]

On 1/9/2022 at 9:57 AM, Randall Ries said:

Kinda makes me wonder if it will get a purp for being trimmed. That's a man made cut there and not a result of a termite or baby chew. I personally can't own books like that.

It could, but it shouldn't.

[maxon]

Technically it is trimming, but I'm not sure anyone can define this as being restoration and give it a purple, its more like amputation. 

[rjpb]

Trimming in the context of collectible comics is understood to be a cutting away of damaged edges in order to improve appearance, with an implication of deception, or in order to make a uniform edge as with trimming done for bound volumes, so I wouldn't consider this trimming in the traditional sense, though it is conceivable it could have been done to clean up the appearance of a rodent chew. It's also possible the cut was made during the assembly process, stranger things have happened. 

I can't see such a defect knocking the grade below 2.0 unless the rest of the book warrants a very low grade as well. 

[zzutak]

Fun fact: In the recording industry, an album cover with a clipped corner is almost certainly a "cut-out" or remaindered/return copy.  Cut-outs were ultimately sold at very deep discounts.  The clipped corner (or punched hole or notch) prevented these ultra-cheap, remaindered LPs from being returned to a retailer or distributor for the original, undiscounted price.

[Math Teacher]

I have an ASM #1 with a clipped corner, and it has a grade of 3.0. I would post a picture of it, but I'm at work.