A Marvel complaint

[CaptCleghorn]

Here's a perhaps related question, though: what is the difference between a (ahem) True Believers issue and a (cough) facsimile (is that what they call them? Sorry, I'm forgetful these days), other than the first costs a dollar, and the second costs $4?

The facsimile issues reprint letter pages and original advertising. True Believers have new ads.

[Mike_Murdock]

Two points from me:
especially for 'unknown quality' issues, when I preorder, this is my pricing guide: number of pages [should] = number of dimes spent; ie., 32-pages 'should' cost $3.20, 40 pages, $4; I don't hold fast to this, especially for indy titles, but for the Big companies...pretty much.

It doesn't equal that and pretty much hasn't equaled that for a while now. A 32 page comic is $4, so each page is about 12 and a half cents. Either way, these numbers are misleading because they count the recap page and the ad pages.