With these reviews, we find out how right or how wrong we were, what we missed and what you can likely still find at cover price, likely at the local comic shop or at online retailers.
July 2019 was a big month, with SDCC and a lot of book hitting shop shelves, lets start with the top 10 books that sold the biggest unit volumes and a quick summary for them.
- House of X #1
– 185,630
- Powers of X #1 – 167,840
- Amazing Spider-Man #25 – 113,272
- Walking Dead #193 – 111,121
- Batman Last Knight On Earth #2 – 105,012
- Batman Curse of the White Knight #1 – 91,205
- Batman Who Laughs #7 – 88,012
- Black Cat #2 – 83,298
- Immortal Hulk #20 – 83,059
- Batman #74 – 78,544
The new Hickman X books are living up to the hype. Selling out despite huge print runs. House of X #1 is a $10 book on a good day with additional printings on the way.
Powers of X #1 you can still find at your local retailers.
Amazing Spider-Man #25 was a celebration of 12 months of the new volume. Nothing happened. It was just a overpriced issue with a few extra pages and some extra variants.
Walking Dead #193 saw the end of a long run by Kirkman out of Image Comics. It was a surprise ending causing this slowly dying comic based on print runs to jump back into the top ten for one last time.
Batman Last Knight on Earth is the new Snyder/Capullo under the Black Label imprint from DC. Everyone loved the Snyder and Capullo run on Batman so retailers are well prepared for this series. The other bonus for me is the book was normal size as I’m not a huge fan of the magazine size moderns.
Curse of the White Knight is the new Sean Murphy Batman book. The last series was a great read so most are anticipating another great series.
Batman Who Laughs #7 was the end of the mini-series that kicked off what we’re going to see in the upcoming Batman Superman #1.
Black Cat #2 was the winner last month due to a huge surge in Wal-Mart orders for the issue. This is surprising for me, I heard its a decent read but I still can’t see that many people jumping onboard a character that’s best classified as a supporting character in the Spider-Man world.
Immortal Hulk #20 is seeing the surge in print runs due to it’s sheer popularity now. Just about all the back issues before issue #16 sell for a premium.
Batman #74 made the list because well, it’s Batman. It’s usually a consistent top ten book despite it’s recent slump in sales. We might see a bump in print runs now with the City of Bane story line and after we saw the death of Alfred in issue #77. King’s run ends in issue #85. Anyone know if this is getting rebooted or will the new writer or team pick up with issue #86? Something to keep an eye on.
July 3rd Books
Green Lantern #9 Dekal Variant was one of those books that sold out, slightly heated up but is now a cover price book.
Still a pretty cool variant if you can find it and if you’re a Dekal fan.
Lady Death Sworn #1 Ms Death Variant (total print run was a measly 1,038 total) was a homage cover to Ms Marvel #1. Sold out, small print run and is a solid $12 to $15 book on a good day. If you can find them for cover, keep it for the personal collection or flip to buy more comics.
No One Left To Fight #1 was a great pickup and flip intially. Reaching a peak around the $20 mark and then becoming a solid $10 to $15 book, it’s now settled down a bit.
Most recent sales have been a few bucks over cover while a few are around the cover price range.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #95 brought us the new gal Turtle. With a print run of just 15,381 these were hard to find.
Quickly heating up and causing her first appearances back in issue #51 to heat up along with her first cover appearance on issue #59 with it.
It’s doubtful you can still find these out in the wild as most sought this book out and now every issue until #100 is on the radar.
July 10th Books
Reaver #1 sold out initially and became a solid $10 on average sale on the secondary market. You can probably still find these locally or online (Midtown still has them limited 1 per customer). There’s still a second print out there as well that hit shops two weeks ago.
Go Go Power Rangers #21 introduced the new purple ranger but sadly, the most recent sales put this one at or even below cover price.
July 10th was a weak new comic book week. Most if not all of the books you can still find at your local shops or online. Some of the ones that did sell out are selling for cover or less on the secondary market.
That concludes part I of July 2019 in review. Stick around for Part II in the coming days that will cover the remaining 3 Wednesdays from July.
I think the Batman Who Laughs series could heat up if the Batman/Superman series is a hit. The variants were all awesome. I picked up multiples of issue 3 variant. That cover was just amazing
Loved the White Knight series. Looking forward to see Curse unfold. I think the creative team is knocking it out of the park. Any possibility Curse heats up?
“King’s run ends in issue #85. Anyone know if this is getting rebooted or will the new writer or team pick up with issue #86?“
If they do I hope they reboot back to legacy numbering…like Tec and Action.
You got the list wrong.
You have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the list to get the numbers that show the placement once you add the A and B covers with different priced covers together. DCeased was #3. You then take the DC combined covers list and work them in where they would have normally appeared compared to the combined same price covers for other issues.
3
DCeased
3 (All)
132,072
7
Batman
75 (All)
100,161
18
Detective Comics
1008 (All)
57,311
19
Justice League
27 (All)
56,717
26
Superman
13 (All)
51,944
40
Action Comics
1013 (All)
43,763
48
Flash
75 (All)
41,571
50
Catwoman
13 (All)
38,879
69
Wonder Woman
75 (All)
32,823
70
Harley Quinn
63 (All)
32,268
72
Justice League Dark
13 (All)
31,480
76
Batman and the Outsiders
3 (All)
30,639
86
Teen Titans
32 (All)
27,905
93
Aquaman
50 (All)
26,286
95
Nightwing
62 (All)
25,753
102
Deathstroke
45 (All)
23,386
103
Justice League Odyssey
11 (All)
23,346
109
Supergirl
32 (All)
22,532
110
Batgirl
37 (All)
22,430
114
Red Hood Outlaw
36 (All)
21,308
122
Hawkman
14 (All)
19,934
142
Terrifics
18 (All)
17,415
I saw that after I posted. Havent gone back to fix and figure out a better way cause its stupid how theyre getting listed like that.
Let’s see if this displays easier to read.
3 DCeased 3 (All) 132,072
7 Batman 75 (All) 100,161
18 Detective Comics 1008 (All) 57,311
19 Justice League 27 (All) 56,717
26 Superman 13 (All) 51,944
40 Action Comics 1013 (All) 43,763
48 Flash 75 (All) 41,571
50 Catwoman 13 (All) 38,879
69 Wonder Woman 75 (All) 32,823
70 Harley Quinn 63 (All) 32,268
72 Justice League Dark 13 (All) 31,480
76 Batman and the Outsiders 3 (All) 30,639
86 Teen Titans 32 (All) 27,905
93 Aquaman 50 (All) 26,286
95 Nightwing 62 (All) 25,753
102 Deathstroke 45 (All) 23,386
103 Justice League Odyssey 11 (All) 23,346
109 Supergirl 32 (All) 22,532
110 Batgirl 37 (All) 22,430
114 Red Hood Outlaw 36 (All) 21,308
122 Hawkman 14 (All) 19,934
142 Terrifics 18 (All) 17,415
I don’t need the list here, I pull them down from the site and do some bash commands to extract the name, # and print run while adding a – in there.
It affects other titles also like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers coming in at #187 and #221 had almost as many copies as the A cover on the market for the Foil. The only real question I have for the list is what caused the 50% increase in orders for TMNT 95 15,381 compared to 94 10,308? At first I thought maybe it was the Second Printing but that doesn’t invoice until the same invoice absolute carnage is on so I would think those numbers weren’t included in the total. I’ll have to wait until next month to see if the second printing shows up on that list to be sure.