Who thought it was a good idea to split stories over several different comic books? Who first started this? Having to read 5 different comics to get the full Maximum Carnage story pretty much killed my desire to keep reading Amazing Spider-man

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▶Anonymous 07/22/18 (Sun) 14:03:47 No.1011567 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

Who thought it was a good idea to split stories over several different comic books? Who first started this? Having to read 5 different comics to get the full Maximum Carnage story pretty much killed my desire to keep reading Amazing Spider-man

▶Anonymous 07/22/18 (Sun) 14:41:03 No.1011572>>1011583

>Who thought it was a good idea to split stories over several different comic books?

The guy that probably got a promotion.

▶Anonymous 07/22/18 (Sun) 14:59:11 No.1011577>>1011580

Nobody 'had an idea' to do this. It was a natural extension of the comics coming out with newspapers.

▶Anonymous 07/22/18 (Sun) 15:40:27 No.1011580

>>1011577

>thinks I'm talking about a story over multiple issues

>instead of Part 3 in The Amazing Spider-man Part 4 in Spectacular Spider-man Part 5 in Spider-man Part 6 in Web of Spider-man etc. etc.

▶Anonymous 07/22/18 (Sun) 15:48:44 No.1011583>>1011626

>>1011572

>The guy that probably got a promotion.

Got it in one. Why sell just one comic with each issue of the story, when you could sell two, or maybe three? Why stop there? Why not have a story split up over every single comic being published at that time.. Hell, now it's not a story, but it's an EVENT.

▶Anonymous 07/22/18 (Sun) 16:27:46 No.1011596>>1011598

Considering how many books Spidey and his peers had to themselves per month back in the day, not taking advantage of that would be pretty stupid.

▶Anonymous 07/22/18 (Sun) 16:33:41 No.1011598

>>1011596

>not being greedy jews would have been stupid

>meanwhile comic sales tanked

▶Anonymous 07/22/18 (Sun) 17:54:29 No.1011626

>>1011583

Time, money and pacing. You want people to comeback and read your story, so you spread it out give the comic dome expensive but nice art and you sell it as an event. Doesn't work now as it did back then.

▶Anonymous 07/22/18 (Sun) 23:27:50 No.1011719

2000AD and The Megazine once split up a two-parter between themselves and the readers freaked out. Wonder why the kids of the 60's didn't do the same?

Oh, yeah, middle-class Boomers. They hadn't grown up and sent all the jobs to China yet, so they could afford all those 15¢ comics

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