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context: comics > how big?
Anthologies
Comic series almost always start their lives as episodes of varying length (for dramas, generally at least 20 pages) in anthology titles, running on weekly, fortnightly or monthly schedules - for some reason, the boys' titles tend to the faster frequencies, women's comics to the slowest. They are mostly in the 200-400 page range, though some have topped 1,000 pages, and they sell very cheaply - generally for around the same as a Batman or Spider-Man comic in America or the UK. It's very unusual for anyone to keep these - they are read quickly and thrown away, and if you care about any of the particular stories - well, that moves forward to the next section...