El tomo recopilatorio incluye varios cómics de grapa.

Not exactly. Tomo usually means a volume, especially a fairly substantial printed volume, often part of a collection or series.

In comics language, un tomo often refers to a collected edition or trade volume rather than a single thin issue.

So:

• libro = book
• volumen = volume
• tomo = volume/tome, often with the idea of a bound collection

In this sentence, el tomo recopilatorio is a collected volume that brings together previously published material.

Recopilatorio means compilation or collecting. Here it describes the kind of volume: a volume that collects several smaller publications.

So:

• tomo recopilatorio = collected volume / compilation volume

It comes after the noun because in Spanish, descriptive adjectives commonly come after the noun:

• un libro interesante
• una edición especial
• un tomo recopilatorio

That is the normal order. Putting the adjective before the noun is sometimes possible in Spanish, but it usually changes the tone or emphasis, and it would not be the neutral choice here.

Because the subject is singular: El tomo recopilatorio.

The sentence breaks down like this:

• El tomo recopilatorio = the collected volume
• incluye = includes
• varios cómics de grapa = several staple-bound comic issues

Since el tomo is singular, the verb must also be singular:

• El tomo incluye...
• Los tomos incluyen...

So incluye is the correct third-person singular form of incluir.

Because varios already works as a determiner here.

In Spanish, you normally do not combine varios with a definite article in this kind of structure:

• incluye varios cómics = it includes several comics

Not:

• incluye los varios cómics ❌

That would sound unnatural here.

This is similar to English: we say several comics, not the several comics, unless we mean some very specific already-known set.

Literally, grapa means staple.

So cómics de grapa literally means staple comics, that is, comics held together with staples.

In Spain, this is a common way to refer to the typical thin, stapled single issues of comics, as opposed to a tomo, which is a thicker collected volume.

So the contrast is roughly:

• cómic de grapa = single stapled issue / floppy comic
• tomo = collected volume / trade paperback-style edition

Because Spanish has adapted the English word comic as cómic, and the stress falls on the first syllable.

The accent mark shows the correct stress:

• cómic
• cómics

Without the accent, a Spanish speaker would tend to stress it differently according to normal spelling rules.

So the accent is there to preserve the pronunciation.

It is a normal, accepted Spanish word, even though it originally comes from English.

In modern Spanish, especially in Spain, cómic is very common. You may also come across other words depending on context, such as:

• tebeo = a traditional Spanish word for comic, often associated with older or more general usage
• historieta = more common in some Latin American varieties

In Spain, cómic is completely standard, especially for modern comic-book language.

Here, varios is best understood as several.

Although it is related to English various, in many everyday contexts varios means:

• several
• a number of

So in this sentence:

• varios cómics de grapa = several stapled comic issues

If you translated it as various comics, that would not be wrong, but several sounds more natural in this context.

Yes. Contiene would also work.

Both verbs are possible:

• incluye = includes
• contiene = contains

In this sentence, incluye sounds very natural because it emphasizes what is part of the collected volume. Contiene is also correct, but can sound a little more literal or slightly less idiomatic in some publishing contexts.

So:

• El tomo recopilatorio incluye varios cómics de grapa. ✅
• El tomo recopilatorio contiene varios cómics de grapa. ✅

Yes, effectively it is.

Grammatically, de grapa is a prepositional phrase, not a single adjective, but it functions like one by describing the type of comics.

Compare:

• cómics de grapa = staple-bound comics
• libro de texto = textbook
• copa de vino = wine glass / glass of wine, depending on context

So even though de grapa is not an adjective in form, it behaves like a descriptive label attached to cómics.

It is using the normal present tense, but in a very common descriptive way.

Incluye here does not necessarily mean the action is happening right now in front of you. It means this is a general fact about the item:

• The collected volume includes several stapled comic issues.

Spanish uses the present tense this way all the time for descriptions, product information, summaries, and definitions.

So this is just a standard factual present:

• El libro tiene 200 páginas.
• La edición incluye material extra.
• El tomo recopilatorio incluye varios cómics de grapa.

Normally, no. In this sentence, El is needed because tomo is a singular countable noun referring to a specific item.

Spanish usually requires an article where English sometimes allows a bare noun less naturally.

Here:

• El tomo recopilatorio incluye... = The collected volume includes...

If you said just:

• Tomo recopilatorio incluye... ❌

that would sound incomplete in normal Spanish.

You could omit the article only in special contexts, such as headings, labels, or very compressed catalogue style, but not in an ordinary full sentence.