Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Legion of Super-Heroes Sales Figures

Okay, I never follow sales. What does the index number mean?

It represents the sales of a book relative to the industry standard title, which is Batman. So it means the LSH sold 52.47 copies for every 100 copies of Batman sold for the month. Batman has been the industry standard for quite some time now. I think Portfolio Boy (Duke) once mentioned it has been used since the first Tim Burton Batman movie.

Hmm. That's better than I would've expected actually.

Thanks, LL.

Well, still some work ahead for the book to become DC's number one seller.

Everyone pick up an extra issue of # 16 & give it to a friend, if you have no friends, give it to a stranger!

I plan to buy extra copies - just for myself!

I buy two a month. Three if I can't wait for my shipment and go to the local shop.

I dropped it. Legion is my fave all time but I just can't dig this team. I am going to wait for a new direction to try it again.

Well, I may just buy some more of #15 caused I liked it that much.

I agree. I bought extra copies of most of the earlier issues, but haven't felt inspired to do so lately. #15 may start that trend again.

I bought 3 #1s, and I've been doing 2 copies since then. Around #5 I decided I'd drop to 1 copy after the 1st year story arc, but I've postponed the drop thru the Supergirl run. Still hoping.

I must admit that I am a little worried by the steady decline in sales.
The previous Legion series had a very steady sales of about 25,000 and it looks like this series in trended back in that direction.
I am hoping that 16 will represent a turnaround on those figures.

12/2004: LSH #1 -- 59,944, including reorders
01/2005: LSH #2 -- 48,584 ""
02/2005: LSH #3 -- 44,824 ""
03/2005: LSH #4 -- 43,408 ""
04/2005: LSH #5 -- 41,664, no reorder listed in top 300
05/2005: LSH #6 -- 40,970 ""
06/2005: LSH #7 -- 39,155 ""
07/2005: LSH #8 -- 37,272 ""
08/2005: LSH #9 -- 35,834 ""
09/2005: LSH #10 -- 35,800 ""
10/2005: LSH #11 -- 34,100 ""
11/2005: LSH #12 -- 33,500 ""
01/2006: LSH #13 -- 32,730 ""
02/2006: LSH #14 -- ?
02/2006: LSH #15 -- ?

#14 ranked 62 in sales for January with an index of 47.63. A big drop this month but when taking into account one-shots, specials and multiple issues of some titles, LSH actually held its spot as the #37 best selling on-going title for the month and improved two spots to DC's 15th best selling title.

Did you see 15 ranked 3 slots lower?

LSH #15- 65 47.63

And 14's index was actually 48.93.

Didn't catch that. Thanks Pov!

#16 ranked 41st in sales for March with a big jump in their index, up to 67.94. Of course it was a sold out issue and had the Big Red S helping out, so I doubt they'll stay up that high. But it would be nice to see them level off again a bit higher than they have been.

Taking into account all the specials, one-shots, annuals, double-ships, etc., SLSH #16 ranked at #27 in on-going titles and as DC's 12th best selling on-going.

Not bad.

Also good that # 16 was the best issue in months.

Updated numbers, including totals for #16:

12/2004: LSH #01 -- 59,944, including reorders
01/2005: LSH #02 -- 48,584 ""
02/2005: LSH #03 -- 44,824 ""
03/2005: LSH #04 -- 43,408 ""
04/2005: LSH #05 -- 41,664, no reorder listed in top 300
05/2005: LSH #06 -- 40,970 ""
06/2005: LSH #07 -- 39,155 ""
07/2005: LSH #08 -- 37,272 ""
08/2005: LSH #09 -- 35,834 ""
09/2005: LSH #10 -- 35,800 ""
10/2005: LSH #11 -- 34,100 ""
11/2005: LSH #12 -- 33,500 ""
01/2006: LSH #13 -- 32,730 ""
02/2006: LSH #14 -- 32,513 ""
02/2006: LSH #15 -- 31,649 ""
03/2006: LSH #16 -- 47,426 ""

#16 has posted the 3rd best sales of the series so far, behind #1 and #2. I'll be curious to see if the sales for the second printing hit the Top 300 for April since that issue is due out this Wednesday. Modest resales would be enough to push #16 up to the second best seller of this current series.

And just to note, since I now have historical sales data on the Legion back to 1997, issue #16 ranks as the fourth best selling issue of the Legion in nine years. Here are the top five since 1997:

Teen Titans/The Legion Special #1 - 61,047
The Legion of Super-Heroes v5 #1 - 59,944
The Legion of Super-Heroes v5 #2 - 48,584
The Legion of Super-Heroes v5 #16 - 47,426
The Legion of Super-Heroes v5 #3 - 44,824

I know the numbers are still dropping but the Legion haven't seen numbers north of 30k since The Legion #25 (the 45th anniversary issue) which barely broke 30k (30,440). Prior to that issue the closet in 30k sales was for the two 1,000,000 issues, both of which sold 29,300 and The Legion of Super-Heroes v4 #100 which sold 29,800. So I tend to believe that with these sales we have a pretty strong title, strongest in a decade.

Now I just wish I could find some of the older sales numbers.

Wow, those figures look really encouraging, Lightning Lad. I guess Kara has a lot of fans (I'm certainly one of them). #16 was one of the best issues to date, IMHO, so I think a lot of these people will stick around.

They wouldn't reprint unless they could sell 5000+ copies, would they?

I'm not sure. The earlier sell out only added a couple of thousand to the total as I recall. I don't think they set a certain number. But with a different cover there may be something more to what they decide.

Preliminary sales info for SLOSH #17 are strong as well:

44 42 61.5 SUPERGIRL & LOSH #17 $2.99 DC

This is good news. I'd take Kara on 3 out of every 5 covers if it meant these types of sales and some sort of stability in regards to knowing there is a guaranteed future to this Legion...

Pov, any idea how it ranked in regards to other DC titles (not including minis, one-shots, etc.)?

Why you asking him? This is my thread! I do the updates!

Not counting minis and such SLoSH #17 ranked as the #31 overall best selling title (DC and Marvel) and as the 9th best selling DC title.