By the Numbers: March Estimated Print Runs

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1. Also from a variant stand point
   Rocket and Groot #4 24,855 ..1:25 = 994 variants
   Hyperion black panther variant 31,679 =1267 1:25 variants
   Harley Quinn 26 51,000- 2000 1:25 variants

2. Mel, that isn’t exactly how incentive variants work. The 1:10, 1:25, 1:50, etc variants are given as “incentives” for retailers to buy more regular copies. Just because 1000 copies were printed doesn’t equate to 1000 divided by 10, 25, 50 etc. Many retailers don’t always order more than a few copies of a book and don’t receive the incentives. So basically, keep in mind that many retailers aren’t meeting the incentive order requirements but if you have 200 stores order 5 copies, there is your 1000 printed books. In this scenario, none of those stores receives a variant.
   I generally feel that many people aren’t fully aware how this works and this misconception makes some people think certain variants are far more common than they actually are. I do see the idea you are rolling with, though, and anyone can agree that these are going to be rare.

   1. I’ve seen guys speak of convoluted math and formulas. I haven’t googled it yet to research it myself. Is there a good link to start to read up on and understand the topic of incentives?

      1. Hi Josh. No. There is not. Diamond only reports the number of orders and not the number of actual sales. Furthermore, the variants are not separated out from the total print run. I know people do not like the “division by ratio” method to guesstimate the number of variants but it does give an idea of what may have been printed. But it is still a guess. The previous comment is correct that if the print run is 10,000 and the variant is 1:10 then that does not mean that the publisher only printed 1000 copies. But it does give a range or an idea of where it could be. Sadly, that’s the best anyone can do unless the variant specifically says limited to 250 or whatever.

      2. Here is an example. The publisher gets orders of 40,000 books before final order cut off they are doing a 1:25 variant. By the “division by ratio” method we can assume that they printed 1000 variants. However, publishers do print an overage to account for damages and reorders. So let’s say they do an overage of 10%. This would mean an addition 4,000 copies of the book and an additional 100 variants. These do not get reported on comichron. Furthermore, they do print extras as giveaways and such. The exact number cannot drilled down so the best any of us can do is guess.

3. I liked Power Lines interested to see where it goes in the next couple of issues. I still see a ton of Power Rangers #1 in the shops. I’m surprised how small the print run for Monstress is.

   1. Its growing

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