I had hopes that volume #7 would have gone to #162, Then volume #8 and #9 could have finished off the pre-Kirby issues in a reasonable page count. Now I'm wondering if we will end up getting 3 more short volumes, most likely requireing some padding. But what could be added to those volumes to fill them out?

If volume #8 was #160 - 176, and volume #9 #177 - 192 making two large volumes instead, would it have made sense to stop volume #7 with #159?