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Sorry if this was posted elsewhere, but I didn't see it.
I'm dying to know how figures stack up against # 1
[edit note: Hunt, hope you don't mind but I edited the title so we can continue to use this thread to report out on sales.]
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Not yet. I think its about another week yet before we get them.
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I know a lot of folks are curious.
# 2s generally see a drop in sales. I hope that isn't the case here, because LSH # 2 was a more enjoyable read than # 1, for me anyway.
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#2 will see a drop in sales, because it was ordered before anyone knew if #1 was a good read or not.
The statistics presented are generally not sales to the customer, but sales to the various comic book stores, and they are ordered about three months in advance (I think). *EVERYTHING* takes a sales hit for the second issue. It's to be expected and isn't that bad a thing.
The really interesting numbers will show up on issue four and five...
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Originally posted by MLLASH:
I know a lot of folks are curious.
# 2s generally see a drop in sales. I hope that isn't the case here, because LSH # 2 was a more enjoyable read than # 1, for me anyway. The owner of my comic shop said sales for #2 were still pretty high. In fact, he sold out. I know he didn't put in low orders because he sold out of #1, re-ordered, and sold out of those. I'm pretty sure he'd make sure there were enough copies of #2 around.
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Yeah, my CBS sold out of # 2 hours after it hit the shelves, under heavy order numbers.
I noticed a healthy restock of both # 1 & 2 when I was there yesterday.
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Yeah, no sales yet, but we'll have rankings later this coming week, most likely, and sales figures extrapolated from those in an additional week.
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Look for a DC announcement about sales on the early issues any day now... 
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Well! Color me Super-Curious now!
Sounds like good news!
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Hey Barry, Where? dccomics.com?
Thanks for the tease.
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Well, if DC's making an official announcement on sales, it's gotta be doing pretty spectacular. Dare we hope... a "sold out!" press release?! 
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I'm hopin' the smiley means Barry knows something good he just can't share yet.
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they've decided to reboot the sales figures.
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Hey, Barry! Is THIS the news you're hinting at...?
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Woo-Woo-Woo! 
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Huzzah for Mark and Barry!
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At my CBS both sold out. I remember when they told #1 sold out and I was supossed to have it on my pull list but they said they didn't have anymore...i almost made the 17 yr acne ridden cashier cry when he pulled one out he had hidden for himself...but it was either that or break his legs.
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and here I thought that CBS was a TV broadcasting company 
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Originally posted by Jorg-El:
but it was either that or break his legs.  That's the funniest thing I've read all day. Thanks. It's the Legion man, this isn't just a comic book it's important!
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Yay WaK! Go Legion! 
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No figures yet but here's the rankings released today (including the 3 books above and below LOSH): 27 24 79.03 ** NOV041799 FANTASTIC FOUR #522 $2.99 MAR 28 37 74.45 ** NOV040278 JSA #69 $2.50 DC 29 26 73.93 JUN041408 WANTED #6 (Of 6) (MR) $2.99 IMA 30 27 72.08 ** NOV040280 LEGION O/SUPER HEROES #2 $2.95 DC 31 49 71.07 ** NOV040270 FLASH #218 $2.25 DC 32 28 69.66 ** NOV040236 DETECTIVE COMICS #802 $2.95 DC 33 29 68.53 ** OCT041735 NEW X-MEN #8 $2.99 MAR We beat out the Flash, Detective Comics and New X-Men. But we fell five slots. Still, the actual numbers will tell a better story. An interesting note on the top 300 for January. DC's highest ranking title was The Teen Titans (#20). It came in at #14. Marvel owned the top 13 slots. I don't think I've seen that for quite awhile. Here's the full list .
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Based on Titans doing 62k (which, coming from this is, I think, a fair assumption), LSH #2 had orders of ~39.7k, (with reorders for #1 of around 7.2k), which makes a drop of ~22% on orders for #1 (not counting reorders). For comparison, Titans had a drop of 2.7%
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DC's Top 20 1) TEEN TITANS #20 2) JLA #110 3) JLA CLASSIFIED #3 4) BATMAN #63 5) FLASH #217 6) JSA #69 7) LEGION O/SUPER HEROES #28) FLASH #218 9) DETECTIVE COMICS #802 10)OUTSIDERS #19 11)ADVENTURES O/SUPERMAN #63 12)NIGHTWING #101 13)ACTION COMICS #823 14)NIGHTWING #102 15)BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #61 16)ROBIN #134 17)GREEN ARROW #46 18)SPACE GHOST #3 (OF 6) 19)JUSTICE LEAGUE ELITE #7 (OF 12) 20)PLANETARY #22 Looking at it this way, I'd say that Mark & Barry deserve lots of kudos. They beat out some pretty significant titles at DC, including every single Batman & Superman title except for Batman. Congrats Mark & Barry!
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Man, I thought the days of having a Legion title in the top 30 2 months in a row was an 80s legend, never to be seen again. How nice to be wrong.
LSH is one of DC's top 10 titles. It feels pretty good to be able to type that.
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It proves that everything is "cyclical". I knew if I was a Legion fan long enough, it would be "hip" again. I'd say things are gonna be looking up for Huey Lewis and the News again too...
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