The inspiration for the name of this blog is the focus for this edition of The Primer. Art design in comics has a slightly different set of vernacular that can be a little confusing at first. Here, we break down the differences between the two terms that make up the name of my blog.
Pages
Pages is the term that most people understand in comics. The page refers to the physical full size image space available. Most standard-size comics run around 25-35 pages. Sometimes they have less, and sometimes they have more. Below is an example of a cover and two pages of The Amazing Spider-Man #50.
Panel
Panels are the individual frame of the comic’s image. A page may have multiple panels. A page with one single image panel taking up the full page is called a splash page or splash panel. It’s one of the few times the terms are interchangeable. In this example, the third section is a splash page, as the image of Peter Parker walking away from the suit is the only image in the space.
Pages and Panels 
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