Comic book formats
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 10:56 am
Hi!
Can someone of you please tell me something about the U.S. (Marvel) comic book formats??
Sorry but I'm Italian and the comic book pages and covers here are quite different from the U.S. standards...
For example:
I know that the standard Marvel comic has 36 pages (including the four covers) and the cover is pretty much of the same material and consistence of the internal pages (I possess only half a dozen original American comics...).
But what about all the other formats? Do the TPBs have a rigid cover? And is the rigid cover something different from the hard cover? I think that the hard cover is "more rigid than the rigid cover", but I'm not sure...
For example, I have the U.S. version of the (fantastic) "Marvel Chronicle - A year by year History". Is that kind of cover what do you mean with "hardcover"?
Thanks and sorry for all these silly questions!!
Can someone of you please tell me something about the U.S. (Marvel) comic book formats??
Sorry but I'm Italian and the comic book pages and covers here are quite different from the U.S. standards...
For example:
I know that the standard Marvel comic has 36 pages (including the four covers) and the cover is pretty much of the same material and consistence of the internal pages (I possess only half a dozen original American comics...).
But what about all the other formats? Do the TPBs have a rigid cover? And is the rigid cover something different from the hard cover? I think that the hard cover is "more rigid than the rigid cover", but I'm not sure...
For example, I have the U.S. version of the (fantastic) "Marvel Chronicle - A year by year History". Is that kind of cover what do you mean with "hardcover"?
Thanks and sorry for all these silly questions!!