Punched hole in cover? 0

[Hibou]

In comics, you would have the top third cut off as a remainder for the vendor to receive credit, with vinyl, you would have cut-outs or punched holes / cut corners from LP's designated as discounted LP's but in pulps?

I've noticed in some instances where small punch holes are seen in pulp magazine covers.

Apologies for another 'newbie' question, but is that an indication of something similar to the above mentioned?

[OtherEric]

On 8/5/2023 at 7:29 PM, Hibou said:

In comics, you would have the top third cut off as a remainder for the vendor to receive credit, with vinyl, you would have cut-outs or punched holes / cut corners from LP's designated as discounted LP's but in pulps?

I've noticed in some instances where small punch holes are seen in pulp magazine covers.

Apologies for another 'newbie' question, but is that an indication of something similar to the above mentioned?

A photo would help here, I'm not aware of that as a regular habit but individual stores might do something like that.

[Hibou]

The image on the left is from a Canadian Edition of the November 1st, 1936 issue... the one on the right is the same issue but the US Edition...

 

 

Edited August 6, 2023 by Hibou

[Sarg]

Never saw that before on a pulp. 

I think pulp remainders was similar to other magazines. Part of the cover, or the whole cover, would be torn off.

[SpineTic]

 

[Book Guy]

Display copies? Hung on the wall? The kid bought them for a discount when the next issue arrived?

[PopKulture]

Those comics were indeed hung at the newsstand. Those holes are all the way through the books. The pulps are different in that they had the hole punched so that a bookseller knew it was a discounted copy. People clipped comics in the same way. It's not that a piece of the cover was returned for credit - there'd be no way of knowing what the heck it was from. It was a reseller's way of knowing that it was at some point a discounted copy so that they wouldn't buy it back at the same rate. For example, if a used bookstore typically offered 10 cents for used pulps, but these sold at a discount off the cover price when they were punched - say 15 cents instead of 25 cents - they did not want to pay 2/3 of that for these marked and discounted copies. The margins were small in all these transactions, and their motivation for defacing these books was simply to ensure they "didn't get cheated."