TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS > 1. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA/ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK #1 (BOO) > 2. CHAMPIONS #1 (MAR) > 3. DOCTOR STRANGE AND THE SORCERERS SUPREME #1 (MAR) > 4. DARK KNIGHT III: THE MASTER RACE #6 (DC) > 5. BATMAN #8 (DC) > 6. BATMAN #9 (DC) > 7. CIVIL WAR II #6 (MAR) > 8. DARTH VADER #25 (MAR) > 9. ALL-STAR BATMAN #3 [*] (DC) > 10. THE WALKING DEAD #159 (MR) (IMA)
>Among the premier publishers, Dark Horse Comics' Serenity: No Power in the 'Verse #1 was their top book at #73, and IDW Publishing's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe #2 was their top book at #130.
> 1. CHAMPIONS: NO TIME FOR LOSERS #1 (MAR) > 2. THE WICKED & THE DIVINE VOL. 4: RISING ACTION TP (MR) (IMA) > 3. EAST OF WEST VOLUME 6 TP (MR) (IMA) > 4. TOKYO GHOST VOLUME 2 TP (MR) (IMA) > 5. LOW VOLUME 3: SHORE OF THE DYING LIGHT TP (MR) (IMA) > 6. UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL BEATS UP THE MARVEL UNIVERSE HC (MAR) > 7. DOCTOR STRANGE: FLIGHT OF BONES TP (MAR) > 8. COLOR YOUR OWN STAR WARS TP (MAR) > 9. TREES VOLUME 2 TP (MR) (IMA) > 10. BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS BOOK & MASK SET (DC)
>>BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novels in October 2016
> 1. THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 26 (IMAGE COMICS) > 2. MARCH: BOOK ONE (TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS) > 3. TOKYO GHOUL VOL. 9 (VIZ MEDIA) > 4. BLACK PANTHER BOOK 1 (MARVEL COMICS) > 5. THE WALKING DEAD BOOK 13 HC (IMAGE COMICS) > 6. SUPER MARIO ADVENTURES (VIZ MEDIA) > 7. BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE DLX ED (DC COMICS) > 8. MARCH TRILOGY SLIPCASE SET (TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS) > 9. MARCH: BOOK THREE (TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS) > 10. THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM VOL. 3 (IMAGE COMICS) > 11. THE WALKING DEAD COMPENDIUM VOL. 1 (IMAGE COMICS) > 12. MONSTRESS VOL. 1 (IMAGE COMICS) > 13. ONE-PUNCH MAN VOL. 8 (VIZ MEDIA) > 14. AMERICAN BORN CHINESE (MACMILLAN) > 15. SAGA VOL. 6 (IMAGE COMICS) > 16. MARCH: BOOK TWO (TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS) > 17. HARLEY QUINN VOL. 1 (N52) (DC COMICS) > 18. TOKYO GHOUL VOL. 1 (VIZ MEDIA) > 19. SUPERMAN: AMERICAN ALIEN (DC COMICS) > 20. ONE-PUNCH MAN VOL. 1 (VIZ MEDIA)
>Champions had a Scholastic push >still couldn't beat Big Trouble VS. Escape NY
Huh...well then
Hunter Lopez
So Marvel won again? Top lel.
Carson Butler
Publishers' market shares for October 2016
Oliver Davis
>Marvel's quality at it's lowest. >Still beats DC.
House of Ideas baby!
Hudson Hughes
>1. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA/ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK #1 (BOO)
Jackson Miller
DC is dead again! Go Marvel!
Caleb Morgan
Wait wasn't DC beating Marvel sale.wise and Retail Market-Share?. What's happening?
Kevin Lewis
>inflated Champions numbers still can't get the top spot
Caleb Sanchez
Loot crates; the only way Marvel can outsell DC nowadays.
Jack Edwards
Champions is getting like 300-400K this month due to Scholastic bullshit.
Matthew Stewart
justice league vs suicide squad next month. Enjoy the sales bump for now marvelfam
James Watson
Champions also was ordered by scholastic. Expect a huge drop now that they realise that it's not kid friendly. Doctor Strange got a movie+relaunch bump.
Carter Torres
YES! MARVEL'S BACK, BABY! DC BTFO! HOW WILL THEY EVER RECOVER NOW?
Cameron Murphy
Is BP the only trade Marvel can sell damn
Brody Wright
I have quickly imagined a crossover title: CRATE LEAGUE VS SCHOLASTIC SQUAD
Camden Fisher
I can only assume DC's titles are now all or nearly all direct-only once again after their disastrous foray into sale or return. Next month their share of dollar/unit will be lower again if there are any sale or return titles left - they'll all be gone by then.
It's bizarre that they even tried it without pushing a simplified newsstand line - even just quietly exempting the main Batman title from crossovers and keeping it free of continuity clutter would have worked out for them - but nobody other than LCS owners was ever going to order the bulk of their titles, so making them returnable was never going to be sustainable. Under the sales figures all publishers enjoy there's a lot of unsold and slow-selling books that are the retailers' problem. The fact that Diamond's shitty reporting is incapable of accounting for returned copies probably has nothing to do with DC's reasons for trying it out.
Can't say I've been keeping up with October's cover prices either, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Batman went back up to $4 along with other solid-selling titles. That would certainly prop up their dollar share for a month or two, but eventually - DC fans apparently being those who think $4 is too much for a comic book, regardless of the facts - the sales will slump back to around 100k/issue. Regardless, they're gonna do it if they haven't already.
Honestly? I can't help but feel DC could put out half as many titles and still get just the same unit/dollar share if they targeted the right books for cancellation. Half the production cost, same profit, and they'd almost certainly (legitimately for once) occupy the top 10 every month with actual sales.
But what do I know? Giving out pizza on company expenses at cons is clearly the way to go.
Luis Allen
How the fuck is big trouble in little china on number one ?
Camden Stewart
Nice pasta, Marlel.
Parker Bennett
Lootcrate most likely
Bentley Campbell
BOOM! is an exclusive client of Diamond so all floppy orders must go through them.
Robert Ramirez
>Marvel over DC again
Wow, what everyone said would happen, happened. Incredible. Truly unprecedented.
Christopher Moore
what the fuck are you talking about ? its only a 5% boost and its because they literally had a relauch
Jace Perry
Those LCS owners bitching on twitter must be crying tight now.
Jordan Scott
M-Marvel is finished, r-right?
Ryder Morris
Not really, this happened because champions was ordered by scholastic
Adam Jackson
most people saw this coming. Champions has inflated numbers.
Civil War not being able to beat Batman is still a thing.
And even then, they WANT people to buy Marvel, for obvious reasons
Nicholas Gomez
>0.10 $ have been added to your account
Juan Butler
>all this DC damage control
Nolan Roberts
>Big Bang Comics on suicide watch
Christopher Wood
They still have Doctor Strange and The Sorcerers Supreme and Civil War 2 as high sellers.
Sebastian Lopez
>Doctor Strange and The Sorcerers Supreme Because of the movie.
Bentley Lee
Civil War II with Carol Danvers as a lead not beating a Batman relaunch shouldn't really be surprising
Both books are trash tho
Landon Murphy
>> 1. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA/ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK #1 (BOO)
This deserves it. It's an amazing crossover.
Juan Edwards
>if Marvel sucks, so does DC!
James Nelson
Uh oh the mouse kikes are shitposting again
Better call the Trump troops to trigger them
Thomas Thomas
Movie sales translate to tpv sales not floppies. And even still, it sold, it's #3 after two titles with inflated numbers.
Hudson Lee
All I read from DC is Sixpack & Dogwelder, I don't give a shit. I'd be honestly surprised if someone didn't realize this would happen. It's pretty much the same thing as how the New 52 went. Few months of being #1 then dropping back down after Marvel drops a few big books.
Caleb Flores
>So Marvel won again? Top lel.
HAHAHAAHA no
Lucas Price
Rebirth is finally dethroned? Are people finally starting to realize how shitty it is?
Jaxon Jones
Lootcrate orders from Diamond.
Ethan Gutierrez
Garth here is such a qt.
Gavin Perez
And that makes you a happy marvelfag, of course.
Brandon Price
>But what do I know?
exactly
Michael Jackson
>trade paperback volume
TO clarify because of you: >All orders of BOOM!'s floppies must go through Diamond
Levi Sullivan
It's just mediocre really with a few stand out books here and there.
My favorite title is Aquaman personally.
Alexander Phillips
It's Batman #8 and #9, not #1, #2... And it's Civil War 2, a crossover event, sequel to one of their most well known crossover and it comes after their billion dollar Civil War movie.
Also, Batman is great.
Daniel Sullivan
Marvel pulled every trick in the book to get Champions big numbers for #1. Now it'll drop by 80% and no one will remember it even exists.
Gabriel King
Marvel's CEO is a Trump supporter.
Jack Walker
>1. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA/ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK #1 (BOO) I did not see that one coming.
Owen King
I thought comic sales were affected by the movies though.
Brandon Anderson
I hate Rebirth but it's still better than Marvel's lineup.
Owen Morris
Retailers.
Brody Jenkins
*weren't
Carson Edwards
So these sales are actually gerrymandering?
Hunter Thompson
Marvel is dominating DC again.
William Perry
>I hate Rebirth It's DA KEWL thing to do, baby.
Elijah Miller
They aren't dominating DC the same way DC weren't dominating Marvel
Marvel were dominating DC last year though
Adam Bennett
>I hate Rebirth
Hudson Martinez
It's a #1 with a movie out. Even if customers don't end up buying it retailers are going to order a fuckton.
Ayden Baker
Bonus if you hate King's Batman.
Joshua Morales
Shh, let them shill. It's their unpaid job.
Aiden Walker
Yep, I was being sort of tongue and cheek. DCfags acted like DC was anally raping Marvel for the last couple months.
Dylan Clark
>I was being sort of tongue and cheek >but I'm still butthurt
Ethan Ward
The only thing that matters is the comparative sales here. Year-to-date shows that comics really are growing instead of dying.
Jason Thomas
DC's boost was due to a relaunch, they don't have any big #1s this month and Marvel does.
Charles Gonzalez
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Josiah Harris
Nah, the cool thing to do is be a little sheep. Rebirth is beyond boring for me and just because Marvel is worse doesn't mean I'm going to sing Rebirth's praise. If I count minis, Hanna Barbers, Vertigo and Young Animal then I can find almost a dozen genuinely good DC titles, if I'm looking strictly at Rebirth I can barely name 3. and the upcoming titles don't sound too good either.
Samuel Adams
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Aaron Gray
Movies don't convince new people to get into comics, but movies do trick more sales out of the suckers who are already into comics.
Aaron Hernandez
Yeah but it's okay when DC does it.
Brody Taylor
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Grayson Torres
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Brody Edwards
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Justin Anderson
>mouseketeers run out of arguments >better post ugly pics Bravo Marvel.
Owen Ramirez
>This can't be happening! I'm in charge here!
Nolan Cruz
>they spill over the thread about the latest Frank Cho interview
Dominic Adams
And company wars threads:
Nathan Bennett
Yeah, I don't like Marvel but I'm ok with this. Their biggest mistake this year was Civil War's interloping with all the books making a lot of them unpleasant reads. Now that it's winding down and there's interest in the likes of Riri Williams and the return of the Spider-Marriage to the mainstream, business will be picking itself back up
Hudson Watson
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Oliver Ward
You can thank Drumpf for that. All the sjws are buying more Marvel after the election.
Aiden Myers
>comic book sales threads are company wars threads by default >implying that shitposter is the same faggot who posts NSFW pics here
Hudson Morris
#1's and events are the only reason Marvel outsold them this month, also Champions got a pretty huge boost.
James Nelson
I hope they permaban this fucker posting these images
Ayden Clark
So... what you mean is that's actually a shitposter, huh?
Then, why, I dunno, REPORT THE FAGTRON, you imbeciles?
Camden Rogers
So which are you? The mouseketeer or the NSFW pic poster?
Eli Foster
>Marvel does well in sales >DCfriends scramble to make excuses and call anyone saying anything pro-marvel a shill >posting non-work safe images in an attempt to get the mods to delete the thread
this is why sales threads are cancer
Bentley Ramirez
Isn't that the same reason why DC was outselling Marvel
Oliver Reyes
Neither.
t. OP
I'm out of this thread. for a different reason.
Gabriel Moore
Hey, I did that three times already. I don't know how many times I can do it until they wanr/ban me for "abusing" the system.
>Marvel does well in sales lol >anyone saying anything pro-marvel a shill Well, yes. Marvel doesn't have fans anymore, only shills.
Christopher Sullivan
>Well, yes. Marvel doesn't have fans anymore, only shills.
Wyatt Evans
When you have so many fans abandoning ship, what remains? Exactly, the employees of the company trying to pass as fans.
Xavier Brooks
I'd give it until January to really see if Champions actually has lasting power or if it's a one hitter quitter. I honestly don't expect it to sell gangbusters at all and probably settle around 40-50k.
Anthony Walker
The salt is real.
Caleb King
Good thing I'm phoneposting XDD
Nathan Ortiz
Oh yes. Now this is very true actually.
Henry Anderson
>thread already dying
MOUSEKETEERS BTFO
Aaron Green
>implying it's not a DCcuck posting these ugly images.