by Mike Hansen
“Marvel is the only publisher that mandates a recap page go at the beginning of every comic to catch the reader up on what’s happening if they’ve happened to miss an issue.” – Marvel Senior Vice President-Sales David Gabriel (from his ICV2 interview)
Well, except Red Skull: Incarnate. That miniseries didn’t have a recap page in any of its five issues. Marvel’s pretty good about including them most of the time, though.
When I was editor on Dark Horse’s monthly manga titles, they always had a recap page:
from Oh My Goddess! Part X #2 (published by Dark Horse Comics, March 2001)
Here’s a recent Marvel one:
from Mystery Men #5 (published by Marvel, November 2011)
Now, I wasn’t the first editor at Dark Horse to use recap pages, but I did make them 100% new-reader-friendly in 1999-2001.
Marvel started doing recap pages around mid-2002.
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