Here is the deal with "two spaces" after the period. Consider this leaf from Aquinas' SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES as printed by Jenson in 1480. Check out the sporadic use of post period spacing. These spaces were created using a square of metal spacing called an Em Quad.

https://twitter.com/BetsyShirley/status/1534899004680589312

An "Em Quad" is a perfect square of the body size in metal type. So, a 14pt Em would be 14pts high and wide. (Though, in 1480 "point sizes" weren't yet a thing.) Ems, or quads, were clearly used in the earliest days of printing as semi-standard post-period spacing.

Can we all come together and admit that "Dark Phoenix" only made sense in its original context? You have to remember that the logic of comic publishing was premised on the fact that an ongoing serialized adventure was consumed by children who "aged out" after 2-3 years. 1/14 (As an example, CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED was a monthly comic series that only had 24 issues of content; they just started the series over every two years because the original readers had discovered sex and drugs. They would re-run those 24 issues for years and years.) 2/14

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