Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25390474-20140906044259

When I was about ten I had the first issue of Spider-Woman, but it was the only issue I ever owned. It had the original cover ('All the world against her') but I've recently discovered that it included all the material apparently covered by issues 1,2 and 3, up to the point where Jessica Drew is shown her father's grave and fights Brother Grimm.

There was no indication in the comic-book I had that its contents was anything other than just issue 1 - nothing in it suggested it contained later issues as well. I did buy it in about 1980 though, while the series had in fact started in 1978.

Can anyone tell me what was happening? Did they release compilation volumes? If so, why was there no indication that they contained more than just the issue indicated by the cover? 