Popularity and print runs are the two big things that drive up prices on comics. That is why it is important to watch the estimated sales of comics.
DC carries 7 of the top 10 spots which totals over 1 million copies sold of the 1.75 million units sold. Good month for DC. Marvel has Star Wars and Civil War keeping them in the top slots.
Top 10 Selling Comics
1 Civil War II 1 Marvel 381,737
2 Batman 1* DC 280,360
3 Batman Rebirth 1* DC 199,807
4 Star Wars Han Solo 1 Marvel 152,596
5 Civil War II 2 Marvel 148,403
6 Dark Knight III Master Race 5 DC 139,919
7 Dark Knight Returns The Last Crusade 1 DC 122,305
8 Superman Rebirth 1* DC 118,434
9 Wonder Woman 1* DC 107,737
10 Superman 1* DC 105,380
The Bottom 10
404 Lookers 0 Avatar 3,289
415 Death Force 1 Zenescope 2,992
416 Dreamworks Shrek 1 Joe Books 2,990
417 Grimm Fairy Tales Red Agent 5 Zenescope 2,974
419 Grant Morrisons 18 Days 12 Graphic India 2,973
420 Grimm Fairy Tales Escape From Monster Island 5 Zenescope 2,965
422 Grimm Fairy Tales Grimm Tales of Terror Vol. 2 9 Zenescope 2,957
423 Grimm Fairy Tales Hellchild 4 Zenescope 2,924
428 Black Hood 11 Archie 2,873
430 Ravening 1 Avatar 2,819
Books of Interest (from smallest to largest)
383 La Muerta Descent 1 Coffin 3,635 -One the picks of the week list, tiny print run due to high price
379 Black Eyed Kids 3 Aftershock 3,703 -We love this book.
262 Con Mans Spectrum 1 Automatic Pictures 6,665
237 Spider-Man Deadpool 1 6th print Marvel 7,914 – 6th printing with the wicked black cover
192 Hillbilly 1 Albatross 10,310 – Surprised at how high this came in, still low print run and good selling book
184 Fix 3 Image 11,128 – great Image book well under 20,000 copies
177 Tales From The Darkside 1* IDW 12,199 – Joe Hill’s new anthology book
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Is that Batmen Rebirths print run without store exclusives? I thought it was printed 300k +
If they were distributed from Diamond, which they would have been, it would be included.
Those asterisks mean those numbers were adjusted lower for returnable copies, right? We have all seen how well those #1’s have done and how hard they can be to find on release day. I remember seeing a tweet somewhere from the Batman team that # was 300,000 as well. Did they really adjust -20,000 copies?
I was seeing some #1’s at my LCS for above cover. Especially Batman #1. I don’t think they have any intent to return since they were bagged and boarded and marked up.
Do you think WW, Flash, Superman was closer to 150k before adjustment?
Midtown has even lifted some of the limits on older issues, while increasing the price to match ebay on others. They were limiting JL rebirth #1 to 5 per person/order for example.
Yes they were adjusted for returns but I doubt copies were returned. It sold so well. Yes. Tom King said it was above 300,000 copies
“Two bug this”?
“Secret wars”?
Is this Bleeding Cool?
Sorry, Past 1 am here when I am posting and a little bleary eyed, what time is it there is Vancouver?