Blue marks (Spectacular Spider-man 64) 0

[kasharic]

Hi.

Could someone be so kind as to shed light on this: my copy of Spectacular Spider-man 64 has blue rectangular printing marks at the top of each page throughout. Is this a defect, and if so how does it affect grade? Or is it a common phenomena?

Many thanks

[BobBain]

Not a defect.  It's distributors ink.
Pretty common on newsstand comics back in the day.

[Lazyboy]

5 hours ago, BobBain said:

Not a defect.  It's distributors ink.
Pretty common on newsstand comics back in the day.

Partially correct. Those markings were added to the printing process so distributors would no longer have to do it themselves. They appear on all copies because only the covers of the different editions were printed separately.

Very recently mentioned here.

[Pkav85]

Interesting, so does it effect the grading from CGC at all? 

[Lazyboy]

4 minutes ago, Pkav85 said:

Interesting, so does it effect the grading from CGC at all? 

No, it is part of the comic.