Janaury 2019 Comic Book Sales Report - Top 10's

I really hate seeing Cates' GOTG that high, but seeing Captain Marvel beating it somehow warms my heart (even though I wasn't too hot about #1). What a curious turn of events, the movie was certainly the push it needed, hopefully it keeps selling well.
>> 3. THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL TP
Oh wow, that explains why Stohl is so happy lately. I can't believe this... Right under Infinity Gauntlet too. And people still think the movie will fail?

Jesus, only Batman sells.

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Two batman in the top 10, only things above are Spider-man, 1s and another batman...

he Batman book are the benchmark that DC uses to measure the health of their entire line.. Right now it is selling lower than a bunch of Marvel books.

It's only losing to Spider-man and #1s. Although I guess we did go through many years where Batman was easily outselling Spider.

You mean that putting all your eggs in one oversaturated edgy basket isn't a sustainable publishing model?

Just embarrassing

Add to that the fact that the movies are bombing hard and the streaming service they blew hundreds of millions of dollars on is a massive failure and it's clear DC's days are numbered

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Have sales for all tittles come out yet? I wanna see casualgate get BTFO by Immortal Hulk #11.

I imagine it will come out soon, this is just the preliminary report.
Actually just checked, comichron reported it will come out this weekend.

>1. CAPTAIN MARVEL #1
>3. THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL TP
But casualgate told me her movie would flop, how could this have happened?

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You mean a movie that's not even out yet and still they bitch about it?

I for one would love to see EVS eating Cap'n Marvel's #1 page by page on stream after the first box office success reports come out.

>Captain Marvel makes $300M opening weekend
>Cyberfrog delayed another year

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So now you faggots unironically like Captain Marvel? Tumblr shutting down was the worst thing to happen.

>it was the largest January, in nominal dollars, in the Diamond Exclusive Era
Thanks to Marvel's usual sales practices for its key #1's, Snydershit, and in small part movie cash-ins

A possible culprit in the recent fuck-ups in Diamond sales releases:
>As mentioned, December's sales were artificially low because Diamond did not have a full release week during Christmas Week: rather, a handful of select titles had been shipped to stores the Friday before, street-dated for the 26th. While those comics weren't invoiced until Jan. 9, it does appear that the expected dollar value was figured into the December charts, because those Christmas-week releases have normal dollar rankings.
blog.comichron.com/2019/02/january-comics-sales-start-2019-strong.html

Do you remember at one point half of a Top 10 chart was populated with Bendis issues?

Eat the book, Ethan

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>Tumblr shutting down
It’s still kicking.

>Marvel just flooding market with useless comic titles, pumping out #1 every week to artificially boost their retail and unit market shares

When will the bubble burst ?

Because it's two of DC's most popular characters combined into one.

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Once they banned porn it might as well just be gaia online and you know it.

If the rumors of DC slashing output are true, that might be enough to do it.

Young Justice not in top 10 units sold? :(

>Young Justice not in top 10 units sold? :(
Bendis and Tim Drake.
The best Robin is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, not Tim Drake.

>6. BATMAN #62
>> 7. BATMAN #63
Tom King is Dead.

How is Heroes in Crisis selling so well?

I didn't notice it till now, but both Batman and Heroes in Crisis are getting outperformed by Amazing Spider-Man. Does anyone know if variants for that issue had any incentives? Because I don't see retailers suddenly increasing their orders just because it had a Conan vs Kraven variant by Greg Land.

Keep in mind, ASM's sales for last month were the following:

#11: 79,799
#12: 75,155

That would imply Batman and HiC would be doing less than 80,000. HiC #3 was at 83,794 in November. Compare that to Doomsday Clock #8 which had 123,768.

It's an event... But the problem I see here is that it's not really doing that well for an event at all. People are comparing HiC to Identity Crisis, but Identity Crisis #5 had 125,518 copies ordered.

I think it's due to the amount of events DC has been doing during the last year or so: Metal, Doomsday Clock, No Justice and now Heroes In Crisis. Also, everyone hates Heroes In Crisis.

>Three Batmans
>Two Spider-Man titles
>The seventh Carol #1 in the past seven years
>OOGA CHAKA OOGA CHAKA
>Fucking Tom King
Absolutely disgusting. The only thing that deserves to be on that list is Conan.

She couldn't even beat Edgelord Batman's second issue but the fact that Batman who Lols is that up there is quite sad in the first place.

Less comics may mean less titles. It also may mean that they may have books go bi-weekly or something.

>Oh wow, that explains why Stohl is so happy lately. I can't believe this... Right under Infinity Gauntlet too. And people still think the movie will fail?

I don't think the movie will fail, but remember that these are preorders. Retailers are ordering because they expect people to come in to buy the TPB after seeing the movie, and they had success with Black Panther. This may or may not work because sometimes media doesn't always raise sales of the comics significantly.

When I look at these I immediately ignore the #1's and Batman titles. Those will always be at the top and that ends up being Marvel and DC's respective moneymakers.

> 6. BLACK HAMMER VOL. 3: AGE OF DOOM PART I TP
Oh wow.

> 7. FARMHAND VOLUME 1 TP (MR)
Oh WOW.

>Doomsday Clock #8 which had 123,768.
I'm honestly surprised, what with the delays.

You shouldn't ignore Batman because for a long time that was a mid-list title selling in like the 50,000's back in the late 90's/early 00's. It mainly stayed consistently in the top 10 because of the Snyder/Capullo run. Even during Morrison's run he wasn't always in the top 10.

Too many people on this board take Batman's presence in the Top 10 for granted.

Ignoring #1s is fine though because there are times when retailers order heavy on #1s and then slash orders for subsequent issues.

>preorders
No, those are units invoiced and shipped in January. That money is already in their pockets, and technically there's no reliable way to tell how well a good is *actually* selling to regular folks, only retailers.

>Young Justice not in top 10 units sold? :(
Tim's quickly proving himself the least flexible of the Robins.

Holy fuck, I didn't even remember that debuted in January. Assuming that ASM #14 would be around the 70,00-80,000 range, that could mean Young Justice is around the 60,000-70,000 range.

Poor Bendis..

More like Brian "Poor Performance" Bendis.

As someone who doesn't know who Bendis is, can someone explain why he's hated?

He is the current writer of Superman, Young Justice (comic) and Naomi. Although he is more well-known for his works at Marvel, where he wrote at one point or another every fucking character that company has (during the last few years, he hasn't been very good). He also created the Ultimate Universe, Miles Morales and Jessica Jones. He tends to ignore continuity, use "Bendis Speak" and he wrote a lot of events for Marvel (Practically none of those were good).

he's the reason you have to buy 6 comic books instead of one to get a complete story.

Superman had a stellar run in Rebirth, Bendis took over the book and chucked half the stuff they did into the garbage

Rebirth Superman was a boring babysitter

>Yea Forums hates Snyder
>Yea Forums hates BMWL
>Both are number 1
Love it

Rebirth Supes fell off by the end. Tomasi and Gleason couldn’t keep up and we had 2 months of shitty filler stories. Jurgens is always mediocre and insists on shoving his shit pet characters like Doomsday and Henshaw everywhere

>next month
>Captain Marvel #2
>not even on the chart
everytime

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