Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 11th December 2016

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This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what are known as the “Wednesday Warriors”, those who can’t wait to the weekend to get this week’s comics. We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion.

And despite the November share of sales to retailers, the numbers of actual sales that retailers continue to report favour DC. And while Batman and Justice League are no surprise, Superman still continues to do a lot better than historically. And, yes, The Walking Dead beats out every Marvel title too, including Clone Conspiracy…

1. Batman #12
2. Justice League #10
3. Superman #12
4. Walking Dead #161
5. Clone Conspiracy #3
6. Star Wars: Dr Aphra #1
7. Unworthy Thor #2
8. Nightwing #10
9. Harley Quinn #9
10. Green Lanterns #12

Thanks to the following retailers

Yesteryear Comics of San Diego, California
Dr. No’s Comics & Games Superstore of Marietta, Georgia
Famous Faces & Funnies of West Melbourne, FL
Ssalefish Comics of Winston-Salem, NC
Comics, Games & Coffee of Chichester PO
Graham Crackers Comics – 11 locations in the Mid-West
G-Mart Comic Books of Champaign, IL

Who had this to say,

"Strong week for sales. Nearly our entire order of Clone Conspiracy was shorted by Diamond. All that really affected was Marvel having 2 books on the list instead of 3. DC dominates by virtue of Marvel releasing very few heavy hitter books this week. Slapstick, Nova, and Champions (again) are barely blips on the radar. DC has done what I thought impossible during the n52 era- make people want to read Superman books. Avengers is our #2 book this week. I have a feeling more out of habit and obligation than genuine excitement. Doctor Aphra had stronger sales than I expected putting it at #7. My favorite book of the week was Ringside #8."

"Marvel’s best week out of the gates for a couple of months with us, although for the full week DC will catch up over the weekend. Just outside the top 10 – Predator/Dredd/Aliens #3 which has been selling well from the shelves while waiting for this delayed issue – Motor Crush also nearly there as well :)"

"Walking Dead led this week with a new issue and the Lucille bat replica toy. We offered a bundle deal of Nova #1 and Slapstick #1 for just $4.99 and only a small number of people took us up on it. However Nova #1 was our number 7 books. My initial reaction is that Slapstick can slap on off to an early cancellation. Over the store was busy and business this week was strong."

"We sold an Amazing Spiderman 1 CGC 3.5 SS signed by Stan Lee for $4600. That doesn’t happen often. We also moved a lot of Local Comic Shop Day items as that event and its exclusives start to catch the attention of our customers."

"DC continues its stranglehold on the top ten in our store, taking eight of slots (including the first seven positions). Marvel got one book in our top ten–and that was Doctor Aphra, which means that no Marvel Universe title could make the charts (and in fact, DC’s Cyborg took our eleventh place position, meaning that every DC Rebirth title outsold every Marvel Universe title; the best-selling Marvel Universe title was Unworthy Thor because customers want the original characters back). Marvel offered hefty free overships of several books, but we won’t sell through our base order, so we’ll never sell those overship copies. Rather than overshipping books that customers don’t enjoy, Marvel should put the effort into creating the books that buyers want."

"Batman and Spider-Man dominated our back issue sales this week."

"Star Wars Dr Aphra #1 was the top book of the week….hey Marvel did you hear that. Star Wars comics=top spot on sales charts…can i get an office with a view and six figure salary since apparently that simple equation is like rocket science at your building and i seem to be the only one that has a degree decent enough to figure out that mathematical formula.$$$. P.S Batman did really well as usual."

"X-Men and Flash back-issues did really well. Plus a customer said that i was the only one that had a decent selection of Harley Quinn in the immediate area….weird. Also some guy bought 30 copies of Reborn #1….thanks."

"The overall November sales charts are telling a different story than what we’re seeing in my store, here at FFF. Including the extra free copies that Marvel is sending to stores (thanks Marvel!), to level off the giant dips from first issue sales to actually ordering closer to what we’re selling for the second issues and beyond, Marvel is shipping more books to stores, but I’m not sure how many of these are actually selling to fans. Over here, it’s a really low number on most of the Marvel books. Even the books I’m really enjoying like Jessica Jones, Great Lakes Avengers and others haven’t really caught with our regulars. And there are almost no new customers to speak of, with this first exception so far that just happened: A new mid teenage girl finally came in to buy Champions 1 and 2 this week, (and Future Quest 3), but I believe that’s the first new customer we’ve seen coming in asking about a Marvel Now book since the relaunches started, and our average week sees over 600 transactions. We see dozens of new faces every day, but rarely do they specifically come in asking for a Marvel or DC book (past the first few months of DC Rebirth, where it was tons of new people, many are now regulars, with or without folders). We do have new people wander in, or looking for Walking Dead and even indy stuff that was recommended by a friend, or something they saw on our Facebook, but Marvel isn’t bringing in a lot of new fans so far this year."

"Our store’s weekly Top 10 is 7 DC, 2 Marvel and 1 Image, looking like this: Batman, JL, Superman, Walking Dead, GLs, Clone Conspiracy, Nightwing, GA, HQ, and Aphra. Just factoring in sales from the first few days of sales, my top 10 alone, I’m selling 5.36 DC books for every Marvel book (just in my top 10). Factoring in all my top 20, which is more fair and closer to reality, we’re still looking at selling 2.15 DC for every Marvel book. Going deeper down the rabbit hole with all Marvel vs all DC in the first few days of sales so far since Wednesday, it goes back up to 2.61 DC books to every Marvel book sold in just the first few days of sales. Every store is different, but this is pretty consistent with what we’ve seen the last few months. Once the rest of Marvel’s number ones fade away in the next month or two, I think the overall sales charts will be a little closer to 38% for both of the big two in the near future."

"Batman Annual and Han Solo 5 were strong enough to reach my top 20 on their second week of release at spots 16 and 20."

"Dr Aphra is doing okay, but not amazing so far. Hopefully Rogue One next week will give it a bigger boost, Champions isn’t the breakout hit that Marvel wants it to be, and it’s tied with Death of Hawkman in our store, which is a pretty low level DC book, both in our 17th bestselling spot so far this week."

>Marvel releasing very few heavy hitter books this week. Slapstick, Nova, and Champions (again) are barely blips on the radar. DC has done what I thought impossible during the n52 era- make people want to read Superman books
Damn...

"I do see other comic stores talking about how rough they’re doing this year, but if they keep spending money chasing stupid variants, first issues no one wants, and other nonsense, then I don’t think they’ll recover, and that sucks. I want the industry to succeed, and I don’t want to see stores closing. Maybe they’re backing the wrong horse. We’re having our best year yet in our 23 year history, and we’re up about 10% over last year, with most of the holiday shopping season still to go. Doing this weekly sales list for Bleeding Cool shows what people are really excited about in our store that they race in to grab in the first few days, and it’s really helped to refine my ordering a bit. Between this and weekly Final Order Cutoff (FOC) numbers through our point of sale system, there were some definite surprises on what we thought we would sell more of than we did. I’m super thankful for FOC and the ability to cut titles that are losing customers all the time. As long as you’re supporting the books you’re enjoying and not just buying books out of habit, you’re doing your part to shape a better industry. Let’s hope we see Marvel focus more soon, with less books, better books (and cheaper books) to help the industry regain focus."

"We sold several Saga back issues to a customer who dove into the TPBs and wants to fill in the single issues for his collection. We have Saga 13 and up still at cover price, so he hasn’t dove into the expensive ones yet. We are still moving Walking Dead back issues fairly well and keep selling any Negan or Lucille merchandise we can get pretty quickly. People love to hate that character."

>Nova
;_;

"We’re still selling okay on Fantastic Four, Punisher, Batman, Superman and Nightwing back issues lately. Some older Harley Quinn issues have been moving as well. We still sell an occasional Sonic The Hedgehog, although it’s slowed a lot, and had a kid super happy to leave with a Giant Sized Little Marvel AVX issues today, one of their most fun books in years."

>Bleeding Cool

what about something relevant instead

Nova was a good book and I hope more people pick it up.

It's okay, guys.

Conway's Spidey Marriage Book made the real top ten Slott's Clone Saga 2.0 didn't. The reign of Slott will end soon.

*unzips pants and pisses on Dan Sloth's grave*

No more Carlie Cooper! No more Silk! No more Midget Scientist!

Mary Jane for the win!!!!!! MJ GONNA GIV IT TO YA!

>No more Carlie Cooper!
Carlie was written out of the book years ago now.

>No more Silk!
Same with Silk for that matter.

it's not like people read what they bitch about

Silk has been very enjoyable in her own ongoing user. If you're piss ing on all of Slott's work you also have to piss on Anti Venom, and let's not forget, it was Slott who brought Kaine back and left him alive during Spider Island and spider verse.

That being said, Slott is still a fucking garden gnome who needs to stop writing Amazing Spider-Man

No more Kaine Scarlet Spider! No more Flash Venom! No more Anti-Venom!

Look I want Conway's Spider-Man to outsell Slott's Spider-Man too but be realistic here, the sales were only preorders for the first issue. We won't know the sales levels till a few months later.

Umad, Dan Slutt?

Why don't you go back online to shilling your shitty book at comic stores.

Kaine should have stayed in the 90s.

Flash as Venom was a mistake and his Ben 10 Design was shit (Eddie was better as Venom anyway).

Anti-Venom was a stupid name and looked stupid. He looked like a sperm.

/thread

It's obvious that more people prefer a mature married Spider-Man than a shitty retard that loves killing children.

...

Ok. Ok. Just give me a sec.
*reached into pocket*
Here you go
*hands it to user*
Here's a (you)

(You) don't even know how to (You) right, do (You)?

That's right, there are four of them

>88360143
Look, Slott. I gave you all my Us. I can't even shitpost on Sup Forums now. I don't know what you want. This ain't Twitter.

>Famous Faces & Funnies of West Melbourne, FL
Oh hey, it's my LCS. Weird to see it there but it's a great store.

All those opinions suck though

lol @ all the batfags who said they were dropping King's run. Crackheads still need their fucking fix I guess.

>Champions isn’t the breakout hit that Marvel wants it to be, and it’s tied with Death of Hawkman in our store, which is a pretty low level DC book, both in our 17th bestselling spot so far this week.


That's scary.

Nope, they are right. It's why most readers prefer the new Venom over Flash the Cripple. They want a scary mean Venom. Not a Ben10 reject. Readers want to go back to the good ol days of Marvel.
#MakeMarvelGreatAgain

Just like it was obvious 400k people bought Champions, it totally wasn't gimmick.

This is all true.

Someone in the comments section asked:

>I thought with Spider-Man back in Avengers there might be more interest, but seems like no one really cares.? How did it do for your shops if reading

And then your LCS retailer showed up to reply:

>Right now, we can't give Avengers away. We sold barely more Avengers 1 than we sold of Aquaman 10 or whatever the closest Aquaman issue was out at the time. Literally, Avengers 1 beat Aquaman 10 by like 2 or 3 copies in my store, and that's with cloning subs over from All New All Different Avengers that just ended. I think the very unique looking art isn't really catching everyone, as it's too stylized for a standard mainstream book and we had a lot of drops for issue 2, so people aren't even giving it a second chance. Avengers 2 I believe was our 17th or 18th bestseller so far this week, and even longtime Marvel fans aren't really picking it up so far, at least. I appreciate the extra free copies from Marvel, but will order a fraction of what I ordered on 2 for issue 3, and will most likely be giving out Avengers 1 and 2 for Free Comic Book Day next May!

It's nice to see Unworthy Thor continue to be successful after reading the November chart earlier.
It's a pretty damn good book and I hope to see an ongoing with Thor and Based Ray Bill once the mini is over.

>the guy who bought thirty issues of Reborn #1
lol