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Are Your Comics Thicker This Week?

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There may be a war for thickness going on in comics right now.

We know the current pricing deal. Marvel's comics are generally 20 pages long and are priced at $2.99 and $3.99, though with the latter you get a free digital download. And occasionally you get 31 page stories such as today's Inhumanity #1.

DC comics titles are 20 or 22-28 pages long, for $2.99 and $3.99 respectively.

Of late DC's $3.99 titles, especially as their page count has slid to, say, 22 pages in today's Action Comics, has added a thicker glossy cover, just as Marvel goes to the "self-cover" for its books, so the cover is no thicker or glossier than the inside pages.

Well, in a number of today's $3.99 books from Marvel, there's a thick glossy fold out inside, advertising Avengers #24.NOW, Endless Wartime, Point One, Miracleman and the rest of Marvel Now.

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Well, in DC's books, as well as that Channel 52 two-pager at the back, there's also a MAD Magazine preview focused on the DC Comics reader.

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There is a psychological element to picking up a comic book and thickness, heft, seems to be part of that. So, you know, everyone wins! Apart from the retailers who have to pay for the extra shipping weight of course…

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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