November was a crazy month. With the Local Comic Shop Day, which was great for retailers but a bomb in many cases on the secondary market, plus a ton of new releases, it was a giant month. November as a huge month for sales, so check out the numbers after the jump.
The top 10 comics accounted for just under 2 million copies sold. The top 3 account for over 1 million comics sold. Of course, the top 2, Dark Knight III Master Race 1
and Star Wars Vader Down1 had a ton of variant covers. The Star Wars Franchise accounted for half a million copies sold alone, with just 2 books.
Top 10
1 Dark Knight III Master Race 1 DC 440,234
2 Star Wars Vader Down1 Marvel 384,969
3 Deadpool 1 Marvel 180,565
4 Secret Wars 7 Marvel 177,019
5 Extraordinary X-Men 1 Marvel 133,716
6 All New All Different Avengers 1 Marvel 128,570
7 Star Wars 11 Marvel 126,780
8 Uncanny X-Men 600 Marvel 126,447
9 Star Wars 12 Marvel 123,133
10 All New Wolverine 1 Marvel 119,786
This month there were 13 books over 100,000 copies sold!
Bottom 10
337 Letter 44 21 21 Oni 3,582
340 Niobe She Is Life 1 Stranger 3,443
347 Grimm Fairy Tales Grimm Tales of Terror Vol. 2 2 Zenescope 3,286
348 Black Hood 7* Archie 3,218
349 LCSD 2015 Rick & Morty Treasury Ed Oni 3,212
354 Fathom Blue 5 Aspen 2,929
356 Jirni Vol. 2 4 Aspen 2,889
366 Welcome To Showside 1 Z2 2,726
367 Blood Feud 2 Oni 2,677
368 Project Nemesis 2 American Gothic 2,626
Not all Zenescope books for a change. Makes me wish I had picked up the LCSD Ricky and Morty.
Books of note:
Project Nemesis 2 American Gothic 2,626- Great Kaiju book base on a novel with a built in fan base.
Blood Feud 2 Oni 2,677- Cullen Bunn, books keep getting picked up for shows, tiny print run, really fun read.
Welcome To Showside 1 Z2 2,726- TV show coming, this is one to watch, really small print run.
Niobe She Is Life 1 Stranger 3,443- Tiny print run on this, but this is the copies distributed by Diamond, could be higher based on books that sold before it was distributed. 1:5 variant could be under 690 copies. Hoknes Variant at 100 copies is still the winner at $100.
Wes Craven Coming of Rage 2 Liquid 3,745- With news of Wes Craven’s passing, I am surprised this didn’t pick up more sales.
LCSD 2015 Invader Zim Treasury Ed Oni 3,927- Another LSCD book with low print run
Pacific Rim Tales From The Drift 1 Legendary 7,623- Movie tie in book, second movie coming. 1:10 variant (by crappy math) could be below 760 copies. Nerd Block Variant could be low printed as well.
Unfollow 1 DC 10,740- Just under 11k copies for a book with a TV deal. Could be big. Selling for 2x cover or more.
From the Trade Paperback List:
LCSD 2015 Bitch Planet HC Image 667- Wow, crazy low print run, this could be the hands down winner of LCSD. Selling for as high as $45 and can be picked up on eBay for $24.99.
Lcsd 2015 Space Riders HC Vol. 1 Black Mask 1,399- Nice low print run could make this worth hunting.
Numbers from, and full list can be found at, Comichron.com
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Any idea on the LCSD Blackmask box set numbers.
From my understanding this was not distributed through diamond. They missed the cut off for it and self distributed them. Matthew Rosenberg has a good story about driving a rental truck down to Virginia to get the boxes.