Superman 30 Trim or No Trim? 0

[ABizzner]

Raw copy of Superman 30.  Nice shape but you can see cover was misprinted/cut in production and first three wraps appear to be either trimmed or just another manufacturing/print defect.

Looking for perspective from the community.  Is it trimmed or a defect?

Thanks!

[D84]

Looks like a production defect.

[Dino-Mutt]

It is my opinion that it was done during production, i don't believe it was trimmed. These are getting harder and harder to come by. Nice find!

[ABizzner]

I was thinking same.  Would be odd for the first three wraps to be trimmed on front and back side to same length.  

 

Thanks for the feedback!

[Yorick]

Looks like production, but may be married.  Staples look alright?  Do edge tears align through the "miscut" pages into the "correctly" cut pages?  Stains match too?

[ABizzner]

2 hours ago, Yorick said:

Looks like production, but may be married.  Staples look alright?  Do edge tears align through the "miscut" pages into the "correctly" cut pages?  Stains match too?

Stains match, color/discoloring matches, there are no rips to line up but staples are a bit rusty and do not appear disturbed in any way.  The ridges at the bottom of the miscut pages match the ridges or pattern of the non miscut.  This was a basement find among other GA books, not to say it couldn’t have been trimmed back in the day.

 Agreed it could be married but the top edges line up perfectly.