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

The numbers seem to be higher, which is a good thing.

But I don't know how much of that is due to a few "event" issues doing extremely well or if comics as a whole are picking up. May have to wait for the dust to clear from these current arcs before we get a better picture.

So, here's the list for January 2006!

Let's chat!

DC is really trying to kick Marvel's ass sales-wise, huh?

JSA: the team DC was once ashamed of commads 2 books in the top 40.

SHE-HULK hanging on at # 70. But, oh MY. THE THING is at # 97 and only on issue two. This won't stand. AT ALL. BUY THESE BOOKS!!!

HAWKMAN is up from old stats, at # 87.

FIRESTORM has broken back into the top 100, at # 99.

GLX-MAS SPECIAL only hit # 122? *tsk!*

No LEGION at all this month.

Dang, that's not good at all...

Hopefully word-of-mouth about Todd Rice and Kate's JSA link in #18 help turn things around. This book is good, and these numbers hurt.

But wait... the GLX-Mas thing was a December release... maybe that was reorders?

Heh heh, you said "broke back", heh heh. [/Butthead]

The link is for books released in December.

The overall dominance of the the big two isn't a good thing for the industry. Although I'm glad to see both of them trying a wider variety of stuff in recent months. Everything from BWAHAHA funny style books to western to romance. A lot of that stuff isn't selling like hot cakes though.

Well, fudge-nuggets.

Disappointing numbers for ROCKETO #4. Hope the move to Image with #7 and a trade for 1-6 helps out.

Rocketo's not getting a lot of promotion unfortunately. Shame it reminds me of some of those story books I used to scour libraries for as a kid. The art's not for everyone though, I don't think I could of appreciated this abstract stuff even as a 20 year-old.

Aside from that, part of it has to be its hard to categorize. Post-apocolyptic sci-fi mixed in with Homeric (the Greek not the Simpson , I cant resist those puns... I am weak) myth doesn't attract a lot of people.

Actually, If I described it as that itd probably turn off fans of both and leave an audience of 12 or 15.

Funny, I thought the same thing during Jason Pearson's run in the LEGION 5YL arc...

Here's the list for JULY 2006 TOP 300

Well, 52 sure was a good idea, saleswise. DAY-yum. We're looking at 400,000-plus in sales for one comic here if you wanna count all 4 weekly issues as 1 monthly book.

We have a TEEN TITANS book so strong now it is outselling some X-Books, and deservedly so I'll wager.

JSA's final issue slipped, but I'll wager the relaunch sees it back in the top 30.

Impressive sales for Atom's first issue.

Higher sales than I would have guessed for SUPERGIRL.

I'd sure like to see SHE-HULK higher.

SHADOWPACT needs to step it up.

**SPUTTER!!** DAUGHTERS of the DRAGON # 6 way down at # 154? That's a shame-- can't believe Marvel OK'ed a HEROES FOR HIRE ongoing... but I'm glad they did!

That list reminds me, I was going to get Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters (way down there at #140). Good to see Mouse Guard 1 & 2 made the list.

I wonder how the costs work out for 52. Is it cheaper to produce 4 weekly comics than 4 monthly comics?

But Holy Hulk! The Civil War issues really blew everything else away.

#89. 22.19 HAWKGIRL #54

I remember when Palmiotti and Gray got this book out of the lower 100's into the 70's. At least OLY has kept it in the top 100, even if the content doesnt justify it.

#34 59.3 DETECTIVE COMICS #821
&
#5 100 BATMAN #655*

Thats quite a gap for the two main Bat books. Hmm.

I'm willing to bet that gap is becaause of 2 things, and they're called MORRISON and KUBERT.

Ick. I dropped HAWKGIRL after 2 issues. It was a colossal disappointment after the excellent Gray/Palmiotti run.

I didn't think so - dropped it after the first two OYL stories. Johns, I think, is highly dependent on a good artist, to sell his scripts. Without same, I tend to find the stories a lot more lacking than usual.

I'll take that wager and raise to Top 10!

VERY good series thus far. I really like that the protagonist is someone who genuinly wants to do good and cheerfully takes on the super-heroes for the sheer fun of doing good and exploring the unknown. Also, that he always seems to stop that crook running down the hall with the gate reciepts.

My only fear is that the two Gail Simone stories I have read, her Legion arc and her more recent spin on JLA: Classified, both started out very, very strong and quickly meandered to a sputtering conclusion. I am hoping beyond hope that she can maintain my interest on this one.

I dropped it immediatly after reading issue #7. The story was blah and I likely would have dropped it anyway, but what really pissed me off is that I pre-ordered it as chapter 1 of the OYL story featuring Supergirl and Power Girl in Kandor and Nightwing and Flamebird. Imagine my surprise when the book arrived and it turned out to be part 2!!

I know the book was running late, but they used to hold inventory stories for a reason, dagnabit!
I dropped this from the pre-order I just put in tonight based on the Blue Devil solo in #4. It was, oh I donnu, just so ho-hum, I guess. Made me realize that, for me, Shadowpact is all about the monkey. I'd just as soon DC cancled this title in favor of a Detective Chimp ongoing series.

Direct to you, straight from the FWIW file, these are the books I bought:


2 JUSTICE LEAGUE O/AMERICA #0 DC 162,378
4 52 WEEK #11 DC 122,016
5 BATMAN #655 DC 113,567
13 52 WEEK #9 DC 102,142
14 52 WEEK #10 DC 100,779
16 52 WEEK #12 DC 98,667
18 SUPERMAN BATMAN #28 DC 92,603
21 SUPERGIRL #7 (RES) DC 85,175
25 FLASH FASTEST MAN ALIVE #2 DC 77,487
26 SUPERGIRL #8 (RES) DC 76,942
29 TEEN TITANS #37 DC 71,263
32 SUPERMAN #654 DC 69,526
34 DETECTIVE COMICS #821 DC 67,345
35 ACTION COMICS #841 DC 58,657
42 ALL NEW ATOM #1 DC 49,969
43 JSA #87 DC 49,583
44 DAREDEVIL #87 MAR 49,436
47 CAPTAIN AMERICA #20 MAR 47,357
53 SUPERGIRL & LEGION OF SUPER HEROES #20 DC 41,679
54 UNCLE SAM & FREEDOM FIGHTERS #1 (Of 8) DC 40,736
58 CRISIS AFTERMATH SPECTRE #3 (Of 3)DC 38,772
63 SHADOWPACT #3 DC 36,341
66 BLUE BEETLE #5 DC 35,490
79 JLA CLASSIFIED #24 DC 31,697
81 JLA CLASSIFIED #25 DC 30,709
82 AQUAMAN SWORD O/ATLANTIS #43 DC 30,584
89 HAWKGIRL #54 DC 25,201
94 ASTRO CITY SAMARITAN SP DC 24,394
106 JONAH HEX #9 DC 20,385
151 GOON #18 DAR 11,504
177 FRANKLIN RICHARDS SON O/GENIUS SPR SMMR SPCTCLR MAR 8,324

Also purchased for this month, but did not see on the list (likely becasue they were late) All-Star Superman #5, Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis #44, Teen Titans #38, Wonder Woman #2 and Rocketo #10.

Also, one that would have been on the GN list, Spirit Archives #19.

Should mention that I did not include things I bought that were obviously on this list as reorders.

Hmm. I think Tony Daniel's art (Teen Titans) is kick ass myself. That book is probably my current favorite DC title.

The monkey does rule, and I'm still enjoying SHADOWPACT and thought # 4 was a lot of fun. (My "step it up" comment was based on its sales-- not my opinion of the actual title, which I quite like).

I can't believe Green Lantern is selling so well. *And* the quality is excellent. In fact, I personally think only Titans is equally as good right now from DC, and DC has some pretty kick-ass books.

The numbers for 52 and Civil War are mind-blowing. That's really impressive.

I wonder what Brave and Bold will sell like when its out? If issue #1 is Batman & Green Lantern and issue #2 is Green Lantern and Supergirl, they could be pretty high! Traditionally team-up books don't sell well anymore, but I wouldn't be surprised to see DC ending this trend.

Very glad to see Cap & DD selling around $50K and Legion above $40K. It'd do my heart good to see Legion hit $50K for a few months.

And a link for DEC. 2006!

WOW-- the relaunched JLoA and JSoA must qualify as unparallelled successes. Outselling-- by FAR-- the top 2 X-MEN books, which don't even make the top 10. Quite different than anything we would have seen a few years ago.

Decent numbers for TRIALS OF SHAZAM.

Just noticed ASTONISHING X-MEN # 19 in the top 10... my oldschool self tends to overlook anything that isn't UNCANNY or the early-90s ADJECTIVELESS. My bad.

DC SALES IN THE CRAPPER?


Reboot has posted that sales of SALVATION RUN are not close to what was expected.

Povvins has posted that sales of CATWOMAN are circling the drain.

I was able to check the top 300 comics the other day, and was a little shocked by what I saw.

Sales of minis such as UNCLE SAM/FREEDOM FIGHTERS and CAPTAIN CARROT/FINAL ARK were in the toilet, and S/LSH, BOOSTER GOLD and BRAVE & BOLD were all in the bottom part of the top 100.

Stuff like SHADOWPACT, BLUE BEETLE, INFINITY INC and AQUAMAN was doing very poorly.

COUNTDOWN seemed to be doing okay (I myself have dropped it) but it seemed DC's big 2 were JLoA and JSoA, both in the top 10. The GREEN LANTERN franchise also seemed to be doing well.

So, whaddup with that? Is COUNTDOWN (and the influx of related minis) combined with the influx of 52-related titles on top of the stuff that spun out of INFINITE CRISIS strangling DC Comics' sales? Or is it more of a quality thing? (hard for me to buy, because qualitywise to me, BOOSTER GOLD and B&tB are excellent).