waver99 Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 Hey all. Looking to sell some GA i chanced upon on the boards. Wanted to ensure no missing pages on any of the books as I am based in Asia and returns would be prohibitively expensive. Does the pages listed as per MCS or other sources include the Front n Back cover? TIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzutak Posted April 22 Share Posted April 22 Page counts via the Grand Comics Database and MCS include both the cover and the interior. For example, a 68-pg issue consists of a 4-pg cover plus 64 interior pages (aka 16 wraps or 32 leaves). A 52-pg issue consists of a 4-pg cover plus 48 interior pages (aka 12 wraps or 24 leaves). Some publishers (like DC) also had brief periods of 60-pg issues (in-between the 68-pg and 52-pg eras) and 44-pg issues (in between the 52-pg and 36-pg eras). A DC 60-pager consists of a 4-pg cover plus a 56-pg interior; however, the interior consists of 12 wraps plus another 4 "tipped-in" individual leaves, and a complete interior would have 16 leaves before the center staple but only 12 after. Not all publishers manufactured their 60-pagers this way; for example, I believe Quality Comics just used 14 wraps to form their 56-pg interiors. My go-to source for GA page counts is Howard Keltner's Golden Age Index (aka The Keltner Index) which is available, for free, in pdf form). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waver99 Posted April 22 Author Share Posted April 22 On 4/22/2024 at 9:45 PM, zzutak said: Page counts via the Grand Comics Database and MCS include both the cover and the interior. For example, a 68-pg issue consists of a 4-pg cover plus 64 interior pages (aka 16 wraps or 32 leaves). A 52-pg issue consists of a 4-pg cover plus 48 interior pages (aka 12 wraps or 24 leaves). Some publishers (like DC) also had brief periods of 60-pg issues (in-between the 68-pg and 52-pg eras) and 44-pg issues (in between the 52-pg and 36-pg eras). A DC 60-pager consists of a 4-pg cover plus a 56-pg interior; however, the interior consists of 12 wraps plus another 4 "tipped-in" individual leaves, and a complete interior would have 16 leaves before the center staple but only 12 after. Not all publishers manufactured their 60-pagers this way; for example, I believe Quality Comics just used 14 wraps to form their 56-pg interiors. My go-to source for GA page counts is Howard Keltner's Golden Age Index (aka The Keltner Index) which is available, for free, in pdf form). Thanks man I really appreciate it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
