By The Numbers: January 2016 Print Run Numbers

Another great month of comics has passed and the print run numbers are available. (These are estimated and based on orders.) The top 10 books sold more than a combined million copies, 1,165,178 to be exact.
Top 10 selling Comics
1 Walking Dead 150 Image 156,166
2 Secret Wars 9 Marvel 149,028
3 Spider-Man Deadpool 1 Marvel 133,813
4 Star Wars 14 Marvel 118,471
5 Star Wars 15 Marvel 107,858
6 Old Man Logan 1 Marvel 104,362
7 Obi-Wan and Anakin 1 Marvel 102,861
8 Batman 48 DC 100,962
9 Darth Vader 15 Marvel 98,405
10 Uncanny X-Men 1 Marvel 93,252
Bottom 10 Selling Comics
333 Simpsons Illustrated 21 Bongo 3,242
337 Devi Witchblade One Shot Sejic Graphic India 3,118
338 Grimm Fairy Tales Inferno Resurrection 1 Zenescope 3,104
343 Black Hood 8* Archie 3,049
344 Grimm Fairy Tales Grimm Tales of Terror Vol. 2 4Zenescope 3,047
345 Wes Craven Coming of Rage 4 Liquid 2,982
361 Enormous V2 4 215 Ink 2,634
375 Knights of the Dinner Table 227 Kenzer 2,385
380 Broken Moon 4American Gothic 2,315
388 Monster World 2 American Gothic 2,142
Books of Interest. (Books we have talked about or had as a pick of the week.
Enormous V2 4 215 Ink 2,634- Really surprised at how low the sales on this book are.
Interceptor 1 Heavy Metal 3,294- The book sold through it’s tiny print run as did the second issue.
Evil Dead 2 Cradle of the Damned 1 Space Goat 4,380- The series has consistent small print runs.
Man Plus 1 Titan 4,442- We spotlighted this earlier.
Amazing Forest 1 IDW 4,687- Another pick of the week.
Strayer 1 Aftershock 5,502- Justin Jordan’s new book. Good read small print run.
American Monster 1 Aftershock 9,573- A huge print run for this Aftershock book. Probably one of the largest for them.
Devolution 1 Dynamite 14,225- Decent start for Remender’s new book.
You can see the full print run numbers here and we will be running Terry Hoknes’ in depth review of numbers shortly.

14 thoughts on “By The Numbers: January 2016 Print Run Numbers”

  1. Surprised Enormous isn’t selling more either. Good book. Any word on the whole Fox “event series”? Is that still in the works? If so, once they start showing that the book should take off.

  2. Fox should be happy with comic related material. Deadpool pulled in $270 mil worldwide this weekend, unheard of for a R rated movie ( my 5year olds first r rated movie) . I believe that is the highest grossing weekend for a Fox/Marvel movie.

    1. Aren’t they just moving Snyder over to Detective? I thought I read that on CBR. There will be a hiatus for a bit, but then I expect Detective Comics will become the primary Batman book. And they probably figure by name alone, “Batman” will continue to sell okay since it has better name recognition to general/newer readers than “Detective Comics”. I’m dreading seeing news on what the latest DC Reboot/Renumber might do to their entire line… I am hoping it is not another “soft reboot” like some of the DCYou changes that go unexplained. Or poorly explained, when Didio decides to promote “flexible continuity”…

  5. Enormous and Wes Craven’s coming of rage is crazy low. Does the print run go for both cover A&B on these two books?

    2. Coming of Rage surprises me the most. I thought retailers would bump up their orders, knowing that diehard Wes Craven fans are out there, so they’d surely sell over time, even if they don’t sell immediately after release. I’m one of those fans; I was already ordering heavy on it before his unfortunate death, because it was a big deal to me. That being said, I was actually a bit disappointed with the final product. It is pulling several horror genres together, like many works do these days, but I was really hoping for some truly original twist that just didn’t materialize. Still worth having if you’re a Wes Craven fan. And with apparently hardly any copies out there, let alone with the cover split on that number, I am glad I bought them upon release!

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