Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Top 100 Comics Chat "DC Sales in the Crapper"

I'm noting many X-related books out of the Top 100 list. Time to cull those, methinks.

I wouldn't be surprised if Marvel ends up being happy with those GLA numbers. It's not like they could have expected much.

That said, I think the concept itself works against an ongoing.

You don't know how close to the truth of what will happen to the MU after House of M you are Lash.

I wonder if they'll have to keep having special events to keep the sales figures at the 100,000 range - or if event comics will get old.

I was surprised/dismayed to see the excellent Solo #5 featuring Darwyn Cooke to only sell 14,262 copies - maybe all the Solos have been at the lower end of sales. They certainly haven't been promoted much and there's a ton of noise with IC and House of M.

SOLO
10/ 2004: Solo #1 -- 30,482
11/ 2004: --
12/ 2004: Solo #2 -- 19,390 (-36.4%)
01/ 2005: --
02/ 2005: Solo #3 -- 15,553 (-19.8%)
03/ 2005: --
04/ 2005: Solo #4 -- 13,566 (-12.8%)
05/ 2005: --
06/ 2005: Solo #5 -- 14,262 (+ 5.1%)

(These from Marc-Oliver Frisch on the DC newsgroup)

So Darwyn's issue is actually a jump in sales for SOLO. To be honest, I haven't even bought any of the SOLO books, and haven't seen one iota of hype or info about them that I can recall.

I noticed that Solo 5 sold out at the local shops though many copies of 3 and 4 could still be had. Of course I'm in Darwyn's hometown and he's had plenty of publicity lately winning the Shuster for Canadian Cartoonist of the Year and now an Eisner.

What do you mean there, Scooter? Know something we don't? Do tell! PMs if necessary!

How about inviso-text? Don't highlight if you don't want to know:

Expect a massive reduction in the level of mutants in the Marvel Universe, almost to the 1960's level. Being a mutant will become something very special, as opposed to the almost everyday occurrence prevalent in books like Mutant X and Morrison's New X-Men.

How this happens? Oh no. I'm not going to spoil *that* for you...

Green light rumor from Lying in the Gutters.

Oh, and since I'm doing spoilers, here's one from the same source, same green light, as to the big change to the DCU in Infinite Crisis:

Okay, okay, Even I'm not going to totally ruin this one. But a major character dies and is replaced by their successor, just as The Flash did in the first Crisis On Infinite Earths. This will kick off a new mini-series, which will turn into an ongoing.

No I'm not saying who. Shut up.

On your first one:

Awesome. I want that to happen--waaaaaaay to much of a good thing has flooded the MU and turned it to a minor annoyance. I hope that happens.

Second:

Ouch. I really hope it's not Batman, but I don't think DC would ever be that stupid. I guess all the Wonder Woman speculation might be more accurate than I previously thought. B/c I definatley don't see GA, GL, Flash, Hawkman having that happen to them.

Hmm. And this would certainly solidify Donna's place in the DCU, wouldn't it?

Plus, it's happened before with Wonder Women.

I see it being more Diana than Bruce. Remember, they've already said that the One-Year-Later for Batman starts with Bruce in Arkham and Dick playing Batman.

But would they do that to Wonder Woman with a big WW pic in the offing?

You sure about that? We know that [i]something[/] is going to happen to Moonstar during or just after House of M...

Well, I hope Dani and my other faves are safe!

JULY 2005

Hmm. All 4 of the InfCrisis lead-in minis place in the top 20.

DC tops the chart again this month, but Jillikers...! Where is recent # 1 Green Lantern?

House of M doing quite well.

Hawkman re-enters the top 100. Good.

Defenders # 1 makes the top 50. Good.

You might want to try the August 2005 instead Lash.

As for your Green Lantern question, #2 ranked #4 in sales on the June chart. No GLs were released in July and no.'s 3 and 4 placed in the top 10 in August.

Thanks, Scott.

DC tops the sales list again in August and even beats Marvel in amount of Top 10 titles 6/4.

An excellent start for Supergirl.

Hawkman falls out of the top 100 even though the sales go up in August.

I'll be glad when the House of Ho-Hum and the Infinite Crisis titles are all done so we get a glimpse of real sales. At this point I'd like to see a chart that tracks the regular titles separate from the specials.

Click below for October's list!


http://www.newsarama.com/marketreport/Oct05charts.html

SHE-HULK vol. 2 # 1 breaks top 50.

Not 1 but 2 JSA titles in the top 30.

That's about the highest I've ever seen WONDER WOMAN place.

TEEN TITANS is still rockin', and OUTSIDERS is still rollin'.

The bwa-ha-ha version of DEFENDERS has stayed strong, especially for a miniseries.

JLA is back to the numbers it used to command.

FATHOM sure doen't perform like it used to.

Nice to see HAWKMAN rise up to the 80s.

Paul O'Brian makes a salient point in his "Marvel for October" post in the Marvel newsgroup, though. He's noted that in terms of actual units sold, it's not doing that much better than it did around the previous #1.

They really should have pushed this more.

37,000-plus is pretty good, but yeah, this *is* a number 1 issue. I'd certainly like to see it hit at least the 50,000 range.

Comics seem to be selling more in general than they did, say about late 90s, dont they?