ASM 300 weird staple placement 1 1

[lostboys]

 

The staple placement on this book is just plain ugly.

I know this is common for older books but have you ever seen such a thing on an almost modern age book?

Would you say it's been pressed and that's the cause.

Or simply a factory defect?

[LowGradeBronze]

It thinks it's a SA book! Just a bindery issue, probably affected a few copies before the machine minder corrected it (if people still tended the presses/bindery process back when this was printed.)

[Randall Dowling]

It's an incredibly common defect on comics of virtually any age.  Staple placement and fold/centering are something that doesn't show up in grades (accept for maybe the highest grades), but is an important consideration to many collectors.

While it's possible it's been exaggerated by pressing, typically, this is a production issue as mentioned.

[theCapraAegagrus]

That would bother me more when reading than just looking at the covers.

[THE_BEYONDER]

On 3/15/2023 at 3:11 PM, lostboys said:

 

The staple placement on this book is just plain ugly.

I know this is common for older books but have you ever seen such a thing on an almost modern age book?

Would you say it's been pressed and that's the cause.

Or simply a factory defect?

Quite the miswrap for this book as well.  Is there a spine roll?  

[lostboys]

On 3/17/2023 at 1:46 PM, THE_BEYONDER said:

Quite the miswrap for this book as well.  Is there a spine roll?  

No spine roll.

 

[THE_BEYONDER]

On 3/17/2023 at 2:02 PM, lostboys said:

No spine roll.

 

Just rogue staples.  Not terrible.  Could be worse....