To summarize that thread without having to dig it up:

- Comics were better when they were cheap.

- Comics can be cheap if they're printed cheaply

- A black and white, digest sized, 26 page comic book would cost less than 40 cents to produce at scale (and if you sacrifice some of those pages to advertising you can subsidize the cost of printing the comics to the point that they can be sold for $1 with the wholesaler, the retailer, and the artists all still turning a small profit per issue)

- (I said "at scale" above, and meant 5000 copies. At 50,000 copies it gets even cheaper per issue, basically just coming down to shipping costs. )

- Cheap comics can serve as an introduction to characters who can then go on to live in toys, cartoons, live action series, video games and more.